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Pandro S. Berman survived almost everyone from his generation of producers from the Golden Age of Hollywood, and thus gracefully retired in 1970. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored this ultimate insider with the Irving Thalberg Award in 1976 for his consistent creation of profitable films.
Berman was the oldest of three children born to Harry Michael Berman (formerly Pandrowitz) and Julie Epstein, Russian-Jewish immigrants. After unsuccessful ventures selling real estate, hats, and furs, Harry Berman, like others in his family, became a film salesman, joining World Films in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, shortly after Pandro’s birth.
An accomplished film producer and studio executive, Pandro S. Berman rose through the ranks to become RKO Pictures' resident boy wonder in the 1930s until setting up shop at MGM for the next 25 years.
Pandro S. Berman. place of death. Beverly Hills. 0 references. manner of death. natural causes. 1 reference. based on heuristic. inferred from cause of death.
Biography. An accomplished film producer and studio executive, Pandro S. Berman rose through the ranks to become RKO Pictures' resident boy wonder in the 1930s until setting up shop at MGM for the next 25 years. Throughout his career, Berman's films earned six Academy Award nominations for Best Picture while he juiced the stardom of Fred ...
• Producer Berman praised Presley’s work in Jailhouse Rock. In March 1960, when Jailhouse Rock was re-released in theaters, producer Pandro Berman spoke about the film and Presley’s work on it: “In one respect, the picture was ahead of its time. It has as a major background, the inner workings of fly-by-night record companies.
But much of Berman's tenure was occupied with the star vehicles, literary adaptations and period pictures he had handled so well at RKO, like a Technicolor remake of "The Three Musketeers" (1948), starring Gene Kelly as d'Artagnon; the Robert Taylor noir thriller "The Bribe" (1949); and Elizabeth Taylor's first grown up performance in the light comedy "Father of the Bride" (1950), which earned Berman his fifth Best Picture nomination.Berman helped Robert Taylor's postwar stardom receive a ...
