![]() I feel so damn fortunate that three generations of our family got to know him. Truly saddened to hear that Walter Bernstein - legendary screenwriter, and one of the great humans - died last night. That Kind of Woman came out about a year before the release of Spartacus (1960), which is renowned for producer-star Kirk Douglas’ decision to give the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo screenwriting credit. “He didn’t know or care about the blacklist or know me, he just took Sidney’s word for it.” ![]() “He recommended me to Carlo Ponti,” Bernstein told Feinberg. “We were saying, ‘We’re still here.’ It was a very satisfying experience.”Īfter nearly a decade on the blacklist, Bernstein had finally gotten his name on a screenplay for the 1959 Loren film That Kind of Woman, directed by Lumet. “It was our movie, it was our revenge in a way,” Bernstein said. The Front (1976), directed by Martin Ritt, starred Woody Allen as Howard Prince, a small-fry restaurant cashier/bookie who is hired by three blacklisted TV writers (Michael Murphy, Lloyd Gough and David Margulies) to become the face of their work.īernstein wanted to make the movie as a straight drama, but Columbia Pictures head David Begelman became interested only after he and Ritt introduced comedic elements to the story and got Allen to star on a rare occasion that he didn’t also write or direct. “And this may sound off, but in some respects, it was a not-unhappy time because of that, because of the feeling of solidarity, the feeling of community we had. And I made some very good profound relationships with other blacklisted people,” he told Christian Niedan in a 2013 interview for the website Camera in the Sun. “I didn’t make much money, but I was able to work. Bernstein, though, was able to clandestinely continue his career, at first by using pseudonyms and then by paying others - known as “fronts” - to take credit for his scripts. He was blacklisted in 1950 while working as a television writer, and his name did not appear in any credits of a film until 1958 or a TV show until 1961. Army during World War II, traveling all over as a correspondent for Yank magazine. Born in Brooklyn, Bernstein formally joined the Communist Party while attending Dartmouth College - “I never thought there would be repercussions,” he told The Hollywood Reporter‘s Scott Feinberg in 2012 - then served in the U.S.
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