Pandro S. Berman

Production •1905-03-28 •Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pandro Samuel Berman (March 28, 1905 – July 13, 1996), also known as Pan Berman, was an American film producer. Berman was an assistant director during the 1920s under Mal St. Clair and Ralph Ince. In 1930, Berman was hired as a film editor at RKO Radio Pictures, then became an assistant producer. When RKO supervising producer William LeBaron walked out during production of the ill-fated The Gay Diplomat (1931), Berman took over LeBaron's responsibilities, remaining in the post until 1939. After David O. Selznick became chief of production at RKO in October 1931, Berman managed to survive Selznick's general firing of most of the staff. Selznick named Berman producer for the adaptation of Fannie Hurst's short story Night Bell, a tale of a Jewish doctor's rise out of the Lower East Side ghetto to the height of becoming a Park Avenue physician, which Selznick personally retitled Symphony of Six Million. He ordered Berman to have references to ethnic life in the Jewish ghetto restored. The movie was a box-office and critical success. Both Selznick and Berman were proud of the picture, with Berman later saying it was the "first good movie" he had produced. The Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musicals were in production during the Berman regime, Katharine Hepburn rose to prominence, and such RKO classics as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Gunga Din (both 1939) were completed. 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). 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). Berman was the winner of the 1976 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. Six of his films were nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture: The Gay Divorcee (1934), Alice Adams and Top Hat (both 1935), Stage Door (1937), Father of the Bride (1950), and Ivanhoe (1952). Berman died of congestive heart failure on July 13, 1996 in his Beverly Hills home, aged 91. He was buried at the Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, California.

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代表作

Find Your Man

1924 · Assistant Director

The Fountain

1934 · Producer

The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

1939 · Executive In Charge Of Production

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1945 · Producer

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电影魔术师：奥逊·威尔斯

2014 •Self - Producer (archive footage)

Astaire and Rogers: Partners in Rhythm

2006 •Self (archive footage)

On Location with Gunga Din

2004 •Self

The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

1987 •Self

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

1985 •Self

Move

1970 •Producer

贾斯廷

1969 •Producer

A Cinderella Named Elizabeth

1965 •Self

再生缘

1965 •Producer

Honeymoon Hotel

1964 •Producer

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大奖

1963 •Producer

春浓满楼情痴狂

1962 •Producer

巴特菲尔德八号

1960 •Producer

All the Fine Young Cannibals

1960 •Producer

春闺初恋

1958 •Producer

卡拉马佐夫兄弟

1958 •Producer

监狱摇滚

1957 •Producer

Something of Value

1957 •Producer

宝云尼车站

1956 •Producer

茶与同情

1956 •Producer

黑板丛林

1955 •Producer

Quentin Durward

1955 •Producer

蜜月花车

1954 •Producer

奥斯卡金像奖

1953 •Self

圆桌武士

1953 •Producer

战地天使

1953 •Producer

All the Brothers Were Valiant

1953 •Producer

劫后英雄传

1952 •Producer

古堡藏龙

1952 •Producer

玉女弄璋

1951 •Producer

Soldiers Three

1951 •Producer

The Light Touch

1951 •Producer

岳父大人

1950 •Producer

包法利夫人

1949 •Producer

玉面虎

1949 •Producer

The Doctor and the Girl

1949 •Producer

三剑客

1948 •Producer

Living in a Big Way

1947 •Producer

陇上春色

1947 •Producer

新婚浩劫

1946 •Producer

道林·格雷的画像

1945 •Producer

玉女神驹

1945 •Producer

龙种

1944 •Producer

The Seventh Cross

1944 •Producer

轻微冒险

1943 •Producer

Rio Rita

1942 •Producer

Somewhere I'll Find You

1942 •Producer

Love Crazy

1941 •Producer

齐格菲女郎

1941 •Producer

游乐场

1941 •Producer

Fifth Avenue Girl