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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.
Jul 15, 1996 · Mr. Berman was born in Pittsburgh. His mother was the former Julie Epstein. He attend public schools and, from 1923 to 1928, he worked in Hollywood as an assistant film cutter and an assistant to ...
Jul 13, 1996 · Berman was an assistant director during the 1920s under Mal St. Clair and Ralph Ince. In 1930, he was hired as a film editor at RKO Radio Pictures, then became an assistant producer. When RKO supervising producer Henry Hobart walked out during production of the ill-fated The Gay Diplomat (1931), Berman took over Hobart's responsibilities and ...
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 ...
Pandro S. Berman Biography (1905-1996) Full name, Pandro Samuel Berman; born March 28, 1905, in Pittsburgh, PA; diedof congestive heart failure, July 13, 1996, in Beverly Hills, CA; son of Harry M. (a film distributor and film studio executive) and Julie (Epstein) Berman; married Viola Newman, 1927 (divorced); married Kathryn Hereford, 1960 ...
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 ...
