Word: bern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME errs, and TIME-believer Flushing's Morris Myers, M.D. errs (TIME, Nov. 21) if believing: "In the picture Faithless that 'she has become a prostitute to get money for the doctor.' " The writer, screenplaywright of Faithless, and his late great & good friend, Producer Paul Bern, made sure of factual deference to known and admitted medical ethics, caused the discussed situation to hinge on only the Bankhead-spoken lines, "The doctor didn't say where I was to get the money for these things?"-a definite implication of satisfactory medical attention-and the Bankhead return with...
Jean Harlow quit work in Red Dust for a week when her second husband, Paul Bern Levy, assistant production chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, shot himself dead (TIME, Sept. 19). Soon afterward the body of Bern's common-law first wife, Dorothy Millette, clothed in a black silk dress, was found in Georgiana Slough in the Sacramento River, caught in brushwood under low-hanging willows. Bern's will left all he had to Jean Harlow, but the Sacramento Public Administrator claimed half his estate for the estate of Dorothy Millette as his "legal" wife. In Hollywood, Jean Harlow...
Routine police investigation was fruitful of few essential facts. At the home of her mother and stepfather (a Chicago hotelman named Marino Bello whom sleek Mrs. Carpenter had married after a divorce from her first husband), Jean Harlow told detectives that she and Bern had dinner at home the night he shot himself. Afterward she had gone to spend the night at her mother's house because her stepfather was going fishing and her mother wanted company. Bern was expected to follow, but instead he telephoned to say that his headache was worse and he pre ferred to stay...
Grief-stricken Jean Harlow had cause to wonder whether her career in cinema would be destroyed. But without Jean Harlow, work on her new film could not proceed for long. A week after Paul Bern's death, she made herself up as a "siren," went to work in Red Dust, an Indo-Chinese film...
...Paul Bern's funeral, conducted in Grace Chapel by Rabbi Edgar Magnin, was a $25,000 display of flowers estimated by the undertaker to be the greatest display in Hollywood history. Nosing about outside the chapel was a crowd of 2,000. Inside were a score of Hollywood celebrities. Excerpts from the eulogy delivered by Cinemactor Conrad Nagel: "This can't be the end. His gentle spirit is still with us. We bid you godspeed, Paul Bern, on your journey to a better place and we say here in your own words and in all reverence...