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1905-07-12. Chicago, IL. (Edward Ludvich Bernds) Died. 2000-05-20 (94) Van Nuys, CA. One year before he died, Mr. Bernds published his autobiography, "Mr. Bernds Goes to Hollywood," the title a take on Frank Capra's MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN, on which Bernds served as Sound Engineer. The book covered his life up to 1945, including his years as one ...
Edward Bernds was born in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois. While in his junior year in Lake View High School, he and several friends formed a small radio club and obtained amateur licenses. In the early '20s there was considerable prestige for an amateur operator (a "ham") to have commercial radio licenses, and Bernds was in a good position to get into broadcasting when he graduated...
- Career
- Directing The Three Stooges
- Later Years
While in his junior year in Lake View High School, he and several friends formed a small radio clique and obtained amateur licenses. In the early 1920s there was considerable prestige for amateur operators to have commercial radio licenses, and Bernds was in a good position to get into broadcasting when he graduated in 1923, a year when radio stati...
Bernds wanted to be a director, but could not work up the nerve to approach Columbia president Harry Cohn about the reassignment. Frank Capra ran into Bernds one day, and made Bernds promise to talk with Cohn that evening. Cohn, although well aware of Bernds's prowess in the sound department, grudgingly granted Bernds's wish. In 1945, Bernds became...
In 1950 Bernds directed Gold Raiders, an independently produced comedy-western co-starring veteran cowboy star George O'Brien and The Three Stooges. This led to an assignment at the Allied Artists studio, directing action features starring Stanley Clements, which in turn led Bernds into Allied Artists' breadwinning series starring The Bowery Boys. ...
The films from the Shemp era contrast sharply with those from the Curly era, largely owing to the individual directing styles of Edward Bernds and Jules White. [15] From 1947 to 1952, Bernds hit a string of successes, including Fright Night (1947), The Hot Scots , Mummy's Dummies , Crime on Their Hands (all 1948), Three Arabian Nuts (1951), and Gents in a Jam (1952).
Mar 30, 2020 · Edward L. Bernds worked with everyone from D. W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Buster Keaton to Frank Capra, Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Elvis Presley, Sam Peckinpah and the Three Stooges. A pioneer radio operator in Chicago, Bernds was brought out to Hollywood in 1928 by United Artists to help with the transition to talking ...
This short marks Edward Bernds' writing/directing debut with the Stooges, based on release dates. Actually, Bernds directed A BIRD IN THE HEAD and THE THREE TROUBLEDOERS before this. He was able to convince McCollum and White to push MICRO-PHONIES forward in the release schedule.
Gasoline Alley: Directed by Edward Bernds. With Scotty Beckett, Jimmy Lydon, Susan Morrow, Don Beddoe. The popular Frank O. King comic strip characters go from newspaper page to screen in this 1951 feature film from legendary comedy director Edward Bernds (of Three Stooges and Bowery Boys fame).
