David Fincher’s “Mank” starring Gary Oldman, hews to that version of the story, which is still disputed by many others. Herman’s late son, Frank, also thought his dad deserved all the credit in his 2016 memoir “So As I Was Saying . . . : My Somewhat Eventful Life.”“My father used to quote Rita Alexander, played so wonderfully on the screen by Lily Collins, when asked about how much Welles wrote of the screenplay,” Herman’s grandson and TCM host Ben Mankiewicz told The Post. “Her response was, ‘Not one word.’ ”“Mank” is the rare Hollywood film about a screenwriter, a job so vital to the movie business, but lacking the glitz, name recognition, control of a dressing room or the director’s chair.
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