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  "description": "From Wikipedia\n\nPaul Bern (December 3, 1889 – September 5, 1932) was a\n\nGerman-born American film director, screenwriter and producer for MGM.\n\nBern was born Paul Levy in Wandsbek, which was then a town\n\nin the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein (now a district of the city of\n\nHamburg). He was one of six children of Julius and Henriette (née Hirsch) Levy,\n\na Jewish couple. Julius worked as a clerk for a shipping company before opening\n\na candy store. In 1898, Julius decided to move the family to the United States\n\ndue to the rise of unemployment and anti-Jewish attitudes in Wandsbek. The\n\nfamily eventually settled in New York City. Julius Levy died in 1908. In 1920,\n\nHenriette Levy drowned herself.\n\nBern pursued a career in acting on the stage and studied at\n\nthe American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He later adopted the stage name\n\n\"Paul Bern\". Bern soon realized he had little aptitude for acting and\n\npursued other aspects of theatre production. He worked as a stage manager for a\n\ntime before moving to Hollywood in the early 1920s. He was initially a film\n\neditor before he worked his way up to scenario writing and directing for United\n\nArtists and Paramount Pictures. This led to his working full-time as a producer\n\nat Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the major studio of the time. Bern eventually became\n\nthe production assistant of Irving Thalberg.\n\nThe star-studded film Grand Hotel, released six days after\n\nBern's death, won the Best Picture Academy Award for 1931–32. Bern and Irving\n\nThalberg produced the film, although neither was listed in the film credits (in\n\nthe early 1930s MGM did not list their films' producers in their credits).\n\nHowever, the award was presented solely to Thalberg, and Bern was excluded.\n\nBern met actress Jean Harlow shortly before the premiere of\n\nHell's Angels in 1930. Bern was instrumental in helping Harlow's career as he\n\nwas the only person who took her seriously as an actress. The two struck up a\n\nfriendship and eventually began dating. They announced their engagement in June\n\n1932 and married on July 2, 1932.\n\nTwo months after marrying Jean Harlow, on September 5, Bern\n\nwas found dead from a gunshot to the head in their home on Easton Drive in\n\nBeverly Hills, California. The coroner ruled his death a suicide.",
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