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Feb 28, 2023 · Walter Bernstein participated as an advisor at the 2005 Directors Lab at the Sundance Institute. He served as an advisor at the Sundance Labs for 25 years. (Photo by Fred Hayes) By Vanessa Zimmer. Once upon a time in 1950s America, Walter Bernstein dared not sign his name to his screenplays. Those were the now-surreal days of red hysteria, when ...
Walter Bernstein. Writer: The Front. Blacklisted writer in the 1950s, a victim of the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee), he still continued to write under pseudonyms as did many other blacklisted writers such as Ring Lardner Jr. and Dalton Trumbo, and his biggest contribution during that time was probably his writing work with other blacklisted writers Arnold Manoff & Abraham Polonsky on the You Are There (1953) TV segments starring...
Jan 23, 2021 · Walter Bernstein, the resilient screenwriter who drew upon his ignominious experience on the blacklist in 1950s Hollywood to pen the Oscar-nominated script for The Front, has died. He was 101.
Jan 23, 2021 · Bernstein’s longtime friend and former WGA West president Howard Rodman shared the news of his death on Twitter Saturday. “Truly saddened to hear that Walter Bernstein – legendary ...
May 5, 2000 · Paperback. $21.98 21 Used from $2.47 20 New from $13.45. Mass Market Paperback. During World War II, Walter Bernstein was a correspondent for the U.S. Army magazine Yank; after the war, he joined the Communist Party. When Senator Joseph McCarthy began his notorious witch hunt for Communists in the late 1940s, Bernstein -- a writer for film and ...
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Jun 1, 2021 · Screenwriter Howard Rodman offers a poignant appreciation of Walter Bernstein, the blacklisted screenwriter and director who died in January 2021 at the age of 101. Bernstein had been a fixture in Rodman’s life since the 1950s, when Rodman’s father served as a “front” for Bernstein’s television work. Bernstein would later use that experience as inspiration for The Front (dir. Martin Ritt, 1977), his trenchant and mordantly funny account of life on the blacklist. Rodman surveys ...
