By David Robb Labor Editor Leah Bernstein, the former executive secretary to producer-director Stanley Kramer, has died of coronavirus-related complications at the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s skilled nursing home in Woodland Hills.
She was 99. Bernstein is the sixth retiree to die of COVID-19 at the Woodland Hills facility, despite the staff’s efforts to contain the spread of the virus.
During her long career in Hollywood, Bernstein also worked as the executive secretary to Irving Fein, Jack Benny’s longtime manager, and animator Ralph Bakshi.
She had lived in the Mary Pickford House on the Motion Picture campus for the past two years. Bernstein was born in 1921, the same year the MPTF was founded, “and our care of her at the end
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