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Pandro S. Berman survived almost everyone from his generation of producers from the Golden Age of Hollywood, and thus gracefully retired in 1970. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored this ultimate insider with the Irving Thalberg Award in 1976 for his consistent creation of profitable films.
An accomplished film producer and studio executive, Pandro S. Berman rose through the ranks to become RKO Pictures' resident boy wonder in the 1930s until setting up shop at MGM for the next 25 years.
Berman, Pandro Samuel (b. 28 March 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; d. 13 July 1996 in Beverly Hills, California), producer whose 118 films included many of Hollywood’s most literate and distinguished pictures, including the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals and memorable films of Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, and Elvis Presley.
Pandro S. Berman. place of death. Beverly Hills. 0 references. manner of death. natural causes. 1 reference. based on heuristic. inferred from cause of death.
Biography. An accomplished film producer and studio executive, Pandro S. Berman rose through the ranks to become RKO Pictures' resident boy wonder in the 1930s until setting up shop at MGM for the next 25 years. Throughout his career, Berman's films earned six Academy Award nominations for Best Picture while he juiced the stardom of Fred ...
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But much of Berman's tenure was occupied with the star vehicles, literary adaptations and period pictures he had handled so well at RKO, like a Technicolor remake of "The Three Musketeers" (1948), starring Gene Kelly as d'Artagnon; the Robert Taylor noir thriller "The Bribe" (1949); and Elizabeth Taylor's first grown up performance in the light ...
