Walter Bernstein attends an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' screening of "The Front" in New York on June 7, 2016. His other writing credits included the Burt Reynolds football comedy “Semi-Tough” and films by such old friends as Martin Ritt (“The Front,” “The Molly Maguires,” a story of rebelling miners he once cited as his personal favorite) and Sidney Lumet (“Fail-Safe”). He subsequently returned to New York, where he continued writing for The New Yorker and other magazines, and eventually foun… In the 1970s, Bernstein was able to use his own story for what became his most acclaimed project, “The Front,” starring Woody Allen as a stand-in for blacklisted writers and featuring Bernstein’s friend Zero Mostel, who also had been ostracized in the ’50s. Walter Bernstein Remembers War and Palestine By Walter Bernstein tabletmag.com — In the years 1943-44, as a soldier in the American Army, I spent time in what was then officially called Mandatory Palestine, the area mandated by the League of Nations to the British after World War I. Caught up in the anti-communist movement punctuated by Sen. Joseph McCarthy's notorious. Job offers to Bernstein were rescinded and onetime friends stopped speaking to him. A World War II […] NEW YORK – Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, ... A World War II correspondent for the military who also had been published in The New Yorker, Bernstein was … As a journalist he worked on the staff of the New Yorker, and in 1980 he directed a film, Little Miss Marker, starring Walter Matthau and Julie Andrews. He had barely started working in Hollywood when he was blacklisted. In 1994, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Eastern branch of the Screen Writers Guild. Short Stories from the New Yorker by Irwin Shaw, John O'Hara, James Thurber, Robert M. Coates, E.B. He was 101. But Monroe was often late or absent altogether from the set and was fired in June 1962. “Even expecting it, I was startled when it came, and there would be the sudden sour taste of fear for a moment and then a shaming wave of anger, not at them but at myself for being afraid. CNN's Travis Caldwell contributed to this report. His fronts included an actor’s wife hoping to help her husband break through in movies and a friend of a friend, a guy named Leo, who had a gambling habit to support. NEW YORK (AP) — Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, among the last survivors of Hollywood’s anti-Communist blacklist whose Oscar-nominated script for “The Front” drew upon his years of being unable to work under his own name, died Saturday. Mr. Bernstein and other blacklisted writers were forced to work under assumed names for sympathetic filmmakers like Sidney Lumet, who used Mr. Bernstein, now back in New York, throughout the ’50s on “You Are There,” the CBS program hosted by Walter … In addition to writing full-time, Walter Bernstein was an adjunct professor of screenwriting at New York University and creative adviser at Robert Redford's Sundance Screenwriting Lab and Great Britain's Moonstone Screenwriting Workshop. Bernstein would remember his decision with “relief” over no longer abiding Soviet dogma and “sadness” for the people who were fellow idealists. Walter Bernstein, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter who survived the blacklist era by writing pseudonymous scripts, has died. 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