Walter Bernstein (August 20, 1919) is an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
Bernstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Hannah (née Bistrong) and Louis Bernstein, a teacher. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1940. It was while attending Dartmouth in 1937 that he joined the Young Communist League.
Bernstein wrote for The New Yorker magazine. During World War ...
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Walter Bernstein (August 20, 1919) is an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
Bernstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Hannah (née Bistrong) and Louis Bernstein, a teacher. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1940. It was while attending Dartmouth in 1937 that he joined the Young Communist League.
Bernstein wrote for The New Yorker magazine. During World War II, he was a war correspondent for the U.S. Army newspaper Yank and, because of his communist affiliations, was given the chance to interview Josip Tito the leader of the Yugoslav communist partisans in 1944.
He wrote his first script for Hollywood in 1948 when he adapted a Gerald Butler novel to the screen. Bernstein has stated in his autobiography that while working at Columbia Pictures he would deliberately insert the Communist Party's viewpoint into his scripts in hope that these views would get by studio head Harry Cohn. In 1951, because...
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