Screenwriter and blacklist victim Walter Bernstein dies at 101
Bernstein worked on the screenplays for dozens of films, including
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948, with Burt Lancaster and Joan Fontaine),
That Kind of Woman (1959, with Sophia Loren),
The Wonderful Country (1959, with Robert Mitchum),
A Breath of Scandal (1960),
The Magnificent Seven (1960),
Miss Evers’ Boys (1997, about the infamous “Tuskegee Study”).
Screenwriter/producer Walter Bernstein (right) following a June 7, 2016 screening and Q&A of the 1976 film
The Front, whose screenplay Bernstein wrote, at the SVA Theater in Manhattan. (Luigi Novi /Wikimedia Commons)
During the period in which he was targeted by the anti-communist witch hunt, Bernstein wrote—uncredited—for various television programs, including