Pandro S. Berman

Film Producer

Male

Born Mar 28, 1905

Died Jul 13, 1996

Other Names Berman, Pan

Pandro Samuel Berman was an American film producer.

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Lana Turner
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Film; Pay Attention To The Man Behind The Camera
NYTimes - Feb 28, 2010

OVER a year ago a producer for National Public Radio's ''Fresh Air'' interviewed me about whether my book, ''Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master,'' would be worth the host Terry Gross's time. The result was a mildly farcical call and response. Fleming, I said, molded as many great stars as any director in Hollywood, including Clark Gable, Gary
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Bringing Up Biographer
NYTimes - Aug 17, 2003

KATE REMEMBERED By A. Scott Berg. Illustrated. 370 pp. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. $25.95. What is one to make of this odd and unsettling book? It's a complicated question for me, since I had professional relationships with both its author and its subject, and was very close to a third powerful presence in the book, Irene Mayer Selznick. And
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Television/Radio: The Good, The Bad, The Lucy: A Legacy Of Laughs; Endlessly Lovable, But Damaging, Too
NYTimes - Oct 14, 2001

EVERYBODY remembers Lucy and Ethel at the chocolate factory. After being transferred out of three departments on their first day at Kramer's Kandy Kitchen, the women think they've found their niche, wrapping the candies -- until their supervisor, looking at the conveyer belt, speaks the fateful words ''Speed it up a little.'' What I hadn't
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Beverly Hills Journal; Once Again, Tinseltown Brings Down The House
NYTimes - Jul 31, 1998

The big Tudor house on the corner was not exactly the old Granville place in ''It's a Wonderful Life,'' and the man who lived there for nearly 50 years until he died last summer was named James Stewart, not George Bailey. But 918 North Roxbury Drive, with its towering trees, wide lawn and walled English garden, was a landmark on a leafy street
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1905 Birth Pandro Berman was born in Pittsburgh in 1905. … Read More

TWENTIES

1930 25 Years Old In 1930, Berman was hired as a film editor at RKO Radio Pictures, then became an assistant producer. … Read More

THIRTIES

1936 31 Years Old Berman was willing to give creative people plenty of elbow room, but there were limits; having been coaxed by Hepburn and director George Cukor to push through production of the 1936 film Sylvia Scarlett, Berman reportedly reacted to the poor audience response to that film (the worst in RKO's history) by telling Hepburn and Cukor that he never wanted to see their faces again.

1940 35 Years Old Upset when an RKO power-play diminished his authority, Berman left for MGM in 1940, where he oversaw such productions as Ziegfeld Girl (1941), National Velvet (1944), The Bribe (1949), Father of the Bride (1950), Blackboard Jungle (1955) and BUtterfield 8 (1960).

FIFTIES

1963 58 Years Old He survived several executive shake-ups at MGM and remained there until 1963, then went into independent production, closing out his career with the unsuccessful Move (1970).

LATE ADULTHOOD

1976 71 Years Old Berman was the winner of the 1976 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

1996 91 Years Old He died of congestive heart failure on July 13, 1996 in his Beverly Hills home, aged 91. … Read More

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