15-539: Embassy Theatre may refer to: United Kingdom [ edit ] Embassy Theatre (London) Embassy Theatre, Peterborough United States [ edit ] Embassy Theatre (Fort Wayne) Embassy Theatre (Cumberland, Maryland) Embassy Theatre (Lewistown, Pennsylvania) Embassy Theatre (New York City) Elsewhwere [ edit ] Embassy Theatre, Wellington , New Zealand See also [ edit ] Embassy Ballroom , Adelaide, Australia (later
30-746: A Dustman —and other plays, historical studies, and the screenplays for many successful films which have received awards including the Oscar, Bafta and the Cannes Grand Prix. Mankowitz was born in Fashion Street in Spitalfields in the East End of London , the heart of London's Jewish community until the 1940s, of Russian-Jewish descent. He was educated at East Ham Grammar School for Boys and Downing College, Cambridge . His background provided Mankowitz with
45-408: A good idea to model his film role of Johnny Jackson on Mankowitz's own character, and so Harvey arranged a couple of lunches with the unsuspecting writer to study him at close hand, resulting in the character on film sounding something like Mankowitz. Mankowitz himself appears in the film's opening credit sequence, wearing a sandwich board that bears his writer credit. In 1958 he wrote the scripts for
60-426: A reputation as a playwright. Several of his plays started as either films or television plays. His plays include The Samson Riddle , The Bespoke Overcoat , The Hebrew Lesson (for the stage premiere it was retitled The Irish Hebrew Lesson ), It Should Happen to a Dog and The Mighty Hunter . In 1944, Mankowitz married Ann Seligmann, a psychoanalyst ; the couple met at Cambridge University. They had four sons;
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90-674: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Embassy Theatre (London) The Embassy Theatre is a theatre at 64 Eton Avenue , Swiss Cottage , in the London Borough of Camden , England. The Embassy Theatre was opened as a repertory company in September 1928 on the initiative of Sybil Arundale and Herbert Jay, when the premises of Hampstead Conservatoire of Music were adapted by architect Andrew Mather . The following were some of its productions: From September 1930 to March 1932,
105-500: The ITV sitcom East End, West End set in London's East End and starring Sid James . Mankowitz's script for Anthony Asquith 's film The Millionairess (1960), based on the 1936 play by George Bernard Shaw and starring Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers , was nominated for a BAFTA Award for best screenplay. Another screenplay at this time was a further collaboration with Val Guest for
120-595: The eldest of whom, Gered , is a photographer . His sister, Barbara Mankowitz, was eminent in the china trade in London. Mankowitz died of cancer in 1998 in County Cork , Ireland, aged 73; his ashes are at the Golders Green Crematorium . Files placed in the public domain during August 2010 revealed that for a decade after the Second World War , Mankowitz was suspected by security service MI5 of being
135-468: The material for his most successful book A Kid for Two Farthings (1953). This was adapted as a film by the director Carol Reed in 1955; Mankowitz himself wrote the screenplay. In 1958 he wrote the book for the West End musical Expresso Bongo which was adapted into a film starring Cliff Richard and Laurence Harvey the following year. Its director Val Guest suggested to Harvey that it might be
150-534: The more notable productions at the theatre were: Ronald Adam's own list of significant transfers in that period was Ten Minute Alibi , Close Quarters , The Dominant Sex , Professor Bernhardi , Judgment Day . After war damage, the building was reopened in 1945, with a capacity of 678. It was then run until 1954 by Anthony Hawtrey . Notable productions included: In 1953, it was sold to Sidney Bernstein , with management by screenwriter and playwright Wolf Mankowitz . Notable productions included: The theatre
165-728: The same name based on his research when writing the series. Mankowitz was an original investor in the Partisan Coffee House , a meeting place for the New Left just off Soho Square , which functioned from 1958 to 1962. During the late 1960s he was part-owner of the Pickwick Club in Great Newport Street, off Charing Cross Road in central London, where the Peddlers , a pop group led by Roy Phillips, were resident. Mankowitz also had
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#1732854607214180-517: The science fiction film The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961). In 1962, Mankowitz offered to introduce his friend Cubby Broccoli to Harry Saltzman , holder of the film rights to James Bond , when Broccoli mentioned he desired to make the Bond series his next film project. Broccoli and Saltzman then formed Eon Productions and began co-producing the first Bond film, Dr No , for which Mankowitz
195-463: The theatre was directed by Alec L. Rea and A. R. Whatmore . Productions included: Control then passed to Ronald Adam (also known as Ronald Adams), who remained at the helm until 1939. During that time, he made over 150 new productions and revivals, of which over thirty were then transferred to various theatres in the West End . The Embassy school of acting was opened in the theatre in 1932. Some of
210-407: Was hired as one of the screenwriters. After viewing early rushes, Mankowitz feared that the film would be a disaster and damage his reputation, and insisted on having his name removed from the film's credits. He later also collaborated on the screenplay for the non-Eon 1967 Bond movie Casino Royale . He wrote the script for Yorkshire Television 's serial Dickens of London (1976) and the book of
225-509: Was sold to the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama , who continue as the resident company, in 1956. Notable productions have included the premiere of Mad Forest in 1990. Wolf Mankowitz Cyril Wolf Mankowitz (7 November 1924 – 20 May 1998) was an English writer , playwright and screenwriter . He is particularly known for three novels— Make Me an Offer (1952), A Kid for Two Farthings (1953) and My Old Man's
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