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Walter Bernstein, Blacklisted Screenwriter of The Front, Dies at 101

Walter Bernstein, Blacklisted Screenwriter of The Front, Dies at 101 TheWrap 1/23/2021 © TheWrap Walter Bernstein Walter Bernstein, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Front who had spent years on the blacklist in Hollywood, has died. He was 101. Bernstein died on Friday night, according to former WGA West President Howard Rodman. In the 1950s, Bernstein was blacklisted from Hollywood after he was suspected to be a communist working in the entertainment industry. There was a little booklet called Red Channels, which was a collection of about 150 names of people in the entertainment business, with a listing of their so-called communist or communist front associations, and if you were named you were automatically blacklisted, Bernstein told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2005. There were about eight designations for me all true, all things I d done. I d written for communist magazines, I d supported Russian war relief, I d supported the loyalists in Spai

Walter Bernstein, Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter on The Front, Dies at 101

Walter Bernstein After years on the Hollywood blacklist, he rebounded to also write Fail-Safe, Semi-Tough and The Molly Maguires. Walter Bernstein, the resilient screenwriter who drew upon his ignominious experience on the blacklist in 1950s Hollywood to pen the Oscar-nominated script for The Front, has died. He was 101. Bernstein died Friday night, screenwriter, former WGA West president and longtime family friend Howard Rodman reported on Twitter. Bernstein also adapted Eugene Burdick s novel for Sidney Lumet s nuclear-disaster film Fail-Safe (1964) and Dan Jenkins book for the Burt Reynolds football romp Semi-Tough (1977), and he wrote the John Schlesinger war drama Yanks (1979), starring Richard Gere. Another three films he worked on starred Sophia Loren.

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