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. Job offers to Bernstein were rescinded and onetime friends stopped speaking to him. Bernstein would remember his decision with “relief” over no longer abiding Soviet dogma and “sadness” for the people who were fellow idealists. Bernstein received an Academy Award nomination in 1977 and a Writers Guild of America prize for best screen drama. Advertisement“I had been initiated into the mystery, participated in the sacred process,” he wrote in his memoir.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 24, 2021 01:52 UTC