Biografía y filmografía

Pandro S. Berman

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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.

Fotos

Películas (124)

Orson Welles, el genio creador

2014 · Self - Producer (archive footage)

Astaire and Rogers: Partners in Rhythm

2006 · Self (archive footage)

On Location with Gunga Din

2004 · Self

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

1985 · Self

Move

1970 · Producer

Justine

1969 · Producer

A Patch of Blue

1965 · Producer

A Cinderella Named Elizabeth

1965 · Self

Honeymoon Hotel

1964 · Producer

The Prize

1963 · Producer

Sweet Bird of Youth

1962 · Producer

BUtterfield 8

1960 · Producer

All the Fine Young Cannibals

1960 · Producer

The Reluctant Debutante

1958 · Producer

The Brothers Karamazov

1958 · Producer

Something of Value

1957 · Producer

Jailhouse Rock

1957 · Producer

Tea and Sympathy

1956 · Producer

Bhowani Junction

1956 · Producer

Quentin Durward

1955 · Producer

Blackboard Jungle

1955 · Producer

The Long, Long Trailer

1954 · Producer

Knights of the Round Table

1953 · Producer

All the Brothers Were Valiant

1953 · Producer

Battle Circus

1953 · Producer

The Prisoner of Zenda

1952 · Producer

Ivanhoe

1952 · Producer

The Light Touch

1951 · Producer

Father's Little Dividend

1951 · Producer

Soldiers Three

1951 · Producer

Father of the Bride

1950 · Producer

The Doctor and the Girl

1949 · Producer

Madame Bovary

1949 · Producer

The Bribe

1949 · Producer

The Three Musketeers

1948 · Producer

Living in a Big Way

1947 · Producer

The Sea of Grass

1947 · Producer

Undercurrent

1946 · Producer

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1945 · Producer

National Velvet

1945 · Producer

The Seventh Cross

1944 · Producer

Dragon Seed

1944 · Producer

Slightly Dangerous

1943 · Producer

Somewhere I'll Find You

1942 · Producer

Rio Rita

1942 · Producer

Honky Tonk

1941 · Producer

Love Crazy

1941 · Producer

Ziegfeld Girl

1941 · Producer