19 Facts About Walter Bernstein

Walter Bernstein was an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s because of his views on communism.

Walter Bernstein was a recipient of Writers Guild of America Awards including the Ian McLellan Hunter award and the Evelyn F Burkey award.

Walter Bernstein studied at the Erasmus High School in Flatbush, Brooklyn.

Walter Bernstein returned to the United States and attended Dartmouth College, where he gained his first writing job, as a film reviewer for the campus newspaper, and where he joined the Young Communist League.

In February 1941, Walter Bernstein was drafted into the US Army.

Walter Bernstein wrote of his experiences in Palestine in an article titled "War and Palestine".

Walter Bernstein wrote a number of articles and stories based on his experiences in the Army, some of which originally appeared in The New Yorker.

Walter Bernstein first came to Hollywood in 1947, under a ten-week contract with writer-producer-director Robert Rossen at Columbia Pictures, working uncredited for All the King's Men.

Walter Bernstein subsequently returned to New York, where he continued writing for The New Yorker and other magazines, and eventually found work as a scriptwriter in the early days of live television.

Walter Bernstein worked uncredited on the screenplays of The Magnificent Seven and The Train, and was one of several writers who worked on the script for the ill-fated Something's Got to Give, which was left uncompleted at the time of the death of its star, Marilyn Monroe, in 1962.

Paris Blues was his first feature film collaboration with director Martin Ritt, a friend since the 1940s ; they subsequently worked together on The Molly Maguires, which Walter Bernstein co-produced with Ritt, and The Front.

Walter Bernstein made a cameo appearance in Allen's film Annie Hall.

Walter Bernstein was nominated for the WGA for Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium for Semi-Tough and for a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay for Yanks.

Walter Bernstein stepped behind the camera as director of his only feature film, Little Miss Marker, a remake of the 1934 film based on the Damon Runyon story of the same name.

Walter Bernstein served until his death in 2021 as an adjunct visiting instructor and screenwriting thesis adviser at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in the Department of Dramatic Writing.

Walter Bernstein served as a visiting screenwriting instructor at Columbia University School of the Arts in the 1990s.

Walter Bernstein was married four times, with the first three marriages to Marva Spelman, Barbara Lane, and Judith Braun, ending up in divorces.

Walter Bernstein had two children with his first wife Marva Spelman, Joan Bernstein and Peter Spelman; three children with his third wife Judith Braun, Nicholas Bernstein, Andrew Bernstein, and Jake Bernstein.

Walter Bernstein died of pneumonia on January 23,2021, at the age of 101.