Edward Bernds

Resumen

Nacimiento
12 de julio de 1905 · Chicago, Illinois, Estados Unidos
Defunción
20 de mayo de 2000 · Van Nuys, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos (causas naturales)
Nombre de nacimiento
Edward Ludwig Bernds

Biografía

Familiar

Cónyuge

Trivia

In 1956 Bernds was nominated for an Academy Award by accident. The Academy wished to recognize the script for the Bing Crosby/Grace Kelly film Alta sociedad (1956), but accidentally gave the nod to a Bowery Boys epic of the same name, High Society (1955), written by Bernds and Elwood Ullman. To the end of his life, Bernds loved to show visitors his framed Academy nomination certificate, on the back of which was taped a subsequent letter from the Academy, thanking him profusely for acknowledging the error and refusing the nomination.
Interviewed in the books "Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers" (McFarland & Co., 1988) and "A Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde" (McFarland & Co., 2010) by Tom Weaver.

Citas

[on working with Zsa Zsa Gabor in La reina del espacio exterior (1958)] [She] was very difficult all through the picture. The producer, Ben Schwalb, went to the hospital with ulcers halfway through the picture. I was left to cope with her alone, and she damn near gave me ulcers! It always bothered me that here on this planet Venus, she was the only one who spoke with a foreign accent.
[on Buddy Adler, the head of 20th Century-Fox Pictures when Bernds shot El monstruo de los mil ojos (1959) on the Fox lot] I knew him from Columbia [Pictures], and as a matter of fact I directed a couple of second units for him there--and I considered him an all-American no-talent. In shooting second units I simply could not get a decision from him. He was so afraid of [Columbia Pictures head] Harry Cohn that he was afraid if he made a decision and something went wrong, that Harry Cohn would rip his hide off.
[about El valle de los dragones (1961)] That film has tremendous vitality on TV--I get checks that surprise me. I also get residuals on the Elvis Presley picture Hazme cosquillas (1965) that Elwood Ullman and I wrote, and it seems to me that "Valley of the Dragons" makes me more money in residuals than "Tickle Me" does!
[about La reina del espacio exterior (1958)] If the picture's shown on TV I won't watch it, because Zsa Zsa Gabor still gives me a swift pain.
[on Robert L. Lippert] . . . a rough, tough customer . . . if there were any such thing as reincarnation, that man would have been a pirate in an earlier incarnation.