
Pandro S. Berman
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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- Born28 March 1905 (age 120)
- Place of BirthPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Pandro S. Berman

- Known ForProduction
- Born28 March 1905 (age 120)
- Place of BirthPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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2014

Astaire and Rogers: Partners in Rhythm
2006
On Location with Gunga Din
2004

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985

Move
1970

Justine
1969

A Patch of Blue
1965

A Cinderella Named Elizabeth
1965

Honeymoon Hotel
1964

The Prize
1963

Sweet Bird of Youth
1962

BUtterfield 8
1960

All the Fine Young Cannibals
1960

The Reluctant Debutante
1958

The Brothers Karamazov
1958

Jailhouse Rock
1957

Something of Value
1957

Bhowani Junction
1956

Tea and Sympathy
1956

Blackboard Jungle
1955

Quentin Durward
1955

The Long, Long Trailer
1954

Knights of the Round Table
1953

Battle Circus
1953

All the Brothers Were Valiant
1953

Ivanhoe
1952

The Prisoner of Zenda
1952

Father's Little Dividend
1951

Soldiers Three
1951

The Light Touch
1951

Father of the Bride
1950

Madame Bovary
1949

The Bribe
1949

The Doctor and the Girl
1949

The Three Musketeers
1948

Living in a Big Way
1947

The Sea of Grass
1947

Undercurrent
1946

The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945

National Velvet
1945

Dragon Seed
1944

The Seventh Cross
1944

Slightly Dangerous
1943

Rio Rita
1942

Somewhere I'll Find You
1942

Love Crazy
1941

Ziegfeld Girl
1941

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939

Room Service
1938

Carefree
1938

Stage Door
1937

Shall We Dance
1937

A Damsel in Distress
1937

Quality Street
1937

The Soldier and the Lady
1937

Swing Time
1936

The Big Game
1936

Winterset
1936

Mary of Scotland
1936

That Girl from Paris
1936

Follow the Fleet
1936

Muss 'em Up
1936

Top Hat
1935

In Person
1935

Sylvia Scarlett
1935

Romance in Manhattan
1935

Alice Adams
1935

Roberta
1935

I Dream Too Much
1935

Break of Hearts
1935

Of Human Bondage
1934

The Richest Girl in the World
1934

The Age of Innocence
1934

The Fountain
1934

The Gay Divorcee
1934

By Your Leave
1934

This Man Is Mine
1934

Man of Two Worlds
1934

Spitfire
1934

The Life of Vergie Winters
1934

Gridiron Flash
1934

The Little Minister
1934

Morning Glory
1933

The Monkey's Paw
1933

Ann Vickers
1933

Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
1933

The Silver Cord
1933
