Death
Mankiewicz was a heavy drinker, once famously admonishing his hostess at a formal dinner in her home, after he'd vomited on her white tablecloth while dining, not to be concerned because "the white wine came up with the fish." He died of uremic poisoning at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, California on March 5, 1953, the same day as Joseph Stalin and Sergei Prokofiev.
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