Mr. Bernds Goes to Hollywood

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by Edward Bernds

Type

Autobiographies

Subject

Director > Edward Bernds

Keywords

Edward Bernds, sound, Columbia, Frank Capra

Publishing date

1999

Publisher

Scarecrow Press

Collection

The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 352 pages
5 ¾ x 8 ¾ inches (14.5 x 22.5 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-8108-3602-5
978-0-8108-3602-0

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Book Presentation:
Edward Bernds came to Hollywood in 1928 to help United Artists make the transition to sound. He worked with some of the most notable directors in Hollywood including Frank Capra, Leo McCarey, and Howard Hawks. Though Bernds loved sound work, he had higher aspirations, and hoped to become a writer and director. His first breakthrough came during the mid-1940s on Columbia shorts starring the Three Stooges. Bernds worked with Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, and company for over twenty years as the Stooges' favorite director. A second breakthrough came when he wrote and directed feature length films, among them the science fiction classics: World Without End, Return of the Fly, Spacemaster X7, and Zsa-zsa Gabor's Queen of Outer Space. Edward Bernds witnessed all of the profound changes that Hollywood underwent from the advent of sound to the start of the Easy Rider era. Fortunately for students and fans of film, he tells his story in this fascinating and vivid account of his life in Hollywood.

About the Author:
Edward Bernds still lives outside of Hollywood, California. He no longer makes movies, but writes about them. He has written several published articles on American film. On February 9, 1998, Bernds was honored by the National Board of Review with its Lifetime Achievement Award for Film Technology.

Press Reviews:
I love the detail...it makes me feel as if I'm there, watching it happen, and that's an exciting feeling. (Leonard Maltin)

Bernds pictures of major figures are insightful and will be quoted, but just as important are his thumbnail sketches of crew members... you get a good idea what Hollywood was like, both in and out of the studios. It certainly stands on its own as a unique memoir... (Movie Collector's World)

That clear-eyed quality that you have, with no padding and no waffle, gives one the most vivid idea of what it was like to be there. (Brownlow, Kevin)

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