Walter Bernstein
Walter Bernstein ( born August 20, 1919 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American screenwriter.
Life
Walter Bernstein came in 1919 as the son of Hannah (born Bistrong ) and Louis Bernstein, a teacher in Brooklyn to the world. Influenced by his left-wing Jewish family, he joined as a student at Dartmouth College of the Communist Party. After graduating in the late 1930s Bernstein worked as a journalist for the magazine The New Yorker worked, for which he wrote his first article at the age of 19 years. During the Second World War he worked as a reporter for the Army magazine Yank. In 1945 he published the book Keep Your Head Down, in which he described his experiences as a war correspondent. His first screenplay, in which it was an adaptation of a British thriller, he wrote for up until the last hour in which Joan Fontaine and Burt Lancaster played the lead roles. Then he went back to New York to work as a writer for television. The early 1950s, his career came to a halt, as made him the Committee on Un-American Activities because of his membership in the Communist Party on the black list, which is why he has written over several years, as well as Ring Lardner Jr. and Dalton Trumbo, under pseudonyms screenplays. It was not until 1959, when what the director Sidney Lumet Something of woman for his film! ( That Kind of Woman, 1959) engaged with Sophia Loren, Bernstein worked regularly again under his real name in the film. He later published a book about this period of his life under the title Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist.
His experience with the McCarthy era processed Bernstein also in the script by Martin Ritt's film comedy The straw man ( The Front, 1976), for which he nominated for an Oscar in the category was Best Original Screenplay, as well as a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award in the sequence. For the film comedy A lovely brat ( Little Miss Marker, 1980) with Walter Matthau and Julie Andrews, he joined as a director in appearance. For Peter Yates ' The House on Carroll Street ( The House on Carroll Street, 1988), he delivered again a story about the persecution of communists in the United States in the 1950s.
In his third wife Amber was married to Judith Brown from 1961 to 1984. From this connection, the children Joan, Peter, Nicholas, Andrew and Jacob were born. Today he lives with his wife Gloria Loomis in New York, where he served as auxiliary professor of " Screenwriting " at the New York University will occasionally lectures.