Biography
In February 1941, Bernstein was drafted into the U.S. Army. Eventually attaining the rank of Sergeant, he spent most of World War II as a correspondent on the staff of the Army newspaper Yank, filing dispatches from Iran, Palestine, Egypt, North Africa, Sicily and Yugoslavia. He wrote of his experiences in Palestine in an article entitled "War and Palestine". Bernstein wrote a number of articles and stories based on his experiences in the Army, many of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. These were collected in Keep Your Head Down, his first book, published in 1945. Bernstein first came to Hollywood in 1947, under a ten-week contract with writer-producer-director Robert Rossen at Columbia Pictures. Following that stint, he worked for a while for producer Harold Hecht, which resulted in his first screen credit, shared with Ben Maddow, for their adaptation of the Gerald Butler novel Kiss the Blood Off My Hands for the 1948 Universal film. He 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. In 1950, because of his numerous left-wing politica…
Movies & TV Shows
-
Annie Hall (1977) — Annie's Date Outside Theatre
-
Trumbo (2007) — Self - Interviewee
-
The Tramp and the Dictator (2002) — Self (uncredited)
-
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (2001) — Self
-
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998) — Self
-
A War in Hollywood (2009) — Self - Screenwriter
-
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' (2000) — Self
-
On Cukor (2000) — Self
-
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' (2000) — Self
-
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin (2003) — Self
-
Tell Us She Was One of You: The Hollywood Blacklist and 'Johnny Guitar' (2016) — Self
- Imitation of Life: The Blacklist History of High Noon (2016)
