a day agoI die at 101-year-old screenwriter and director Walter Bernstein
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)It has disappeared at the age of 101, Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter, director and author of over ninety films. The announcement of his death, which occurred Saturday in Manhattan, was issued by his wife Gloria Loomis for CNN, who said he died of pneumonia. Bernstein was on the blacklist during “Red Scare” [...]
It has disappeared at the age of 101, Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter, director and author of over ninety films. The announcement of his death, which occurred Saturday in Manhattan, was issued by his wife Gloria Loomis for CNN, who said he died of pneumonia.
Bernstein was blacklisted during Hollywood's “Red Scare” in the 1950s. Being in the anti-communist movement against the US State Department, Bernstein wrote with nicknames for years.
He was reunited as a screenwriter for the 1959 film “That Kind of Woman”, with protagonist Sophia Loren and directed by Sidney Rivers.
He won a nomination for the Oscar of the Best Original Screen for the “The Front”, a 1976 film with protagonist Woody Allen that satirized the impact of McCartyism's era on writers in the industry.
Bernstein's career works during the 1960s and '70s included “Fail Safe”, “Paris Blues”, “The Molly Magires” and “Yanks”. Bernstein also worked in” “Something Got to Given, ”, Marilyn Monroe's unfortunate photo that was never finished due to her death in August 1962.
In 1997, Bernstein was nominated for a written award in Emmy for “Mys Evers '%s' ”, an HBO movie about notorious Tsukgee syphilis experiments.
Prior to his success as a screenwriter, Bernstein attended Dartmouth College, served in World War II as a correspondent for the military newspaper Yank and wrote about The New Yorker.
