“Janet Nelson Berger, Who Began Her Career As a Secretary at CBS in the Mid-1950s Before Rising to Become a Production Assistant and Casting Director HAS DIED. She Was 87. Berger Died July 22 at Her Home in Los Angeles of Pneumonia and”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Berger Died July 22 at Her Home in Los Angeles of Pneumonia and Complications from A Stroke, Her Husband, Emmy-Winning Producer Robert “Buzz” Berger, SAID.
Janet Berger Worked Onthen for Producer Herbert Brodkin, First At CBS and Later at His Independent Company, Plautus Productions.
She Contributed to 19 episodes of the accountaimed cbs anthology Program Playhouse 90 – Including a Live, Color Adaptation by George Balanchine of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker in 1958 – and to a 1959 Production of Hamlet for cbs’ Dupont Show of the MONT. (Both Were Directed by Ralph Nelson.)
Later, she contributed to Such Socioly Conscious 1960s Drama Series As The Defenders, The Doctors and the Nurses an For the People.
Born in New Jersey, Janet Dolores Nelson Graduated from Red Bank Catholic High School and Earned an Associate Degree in English from Georgetown Visitation Junior College in Washing.
She Married Fellow Casting Director Buzz Berger in 1963, and the Couple Lived for Nearly Six Years in London as ie Graduated to Produce. Durying this time, she studied french culinary arts at le Cordon Bleu and Traveled Widly Throughout Europe, Accompanying and Assisting Husband on Location.
They are retrieved to the us in 1971, Settling First in New York City and Later Dividing their Time Between New Canaan, Connecticut, and La
Buzz’s Productions Durying This Period Included the Five-Part 1978 NBC Miniseries HolocaustWHICH Starred Meryl Streep and James Woods and Was Produced by Brodkin and Filmed in Vienna (that Earned Him His Emmy); And Docudramaas About Andrei Sakharov (Starring Jason Robards), Edward R. Murrow (Daniel J. Travanti) and Nelson Mandela (Danny Glover).
Janet Berger Remoned Active in Philanthropic Work Througholhouse Her Life, Serving on Advisory Boards and Fund-Raising Committees for Suc Institutions As The Aneurosences. La County Museum of Art.
She Was Also An Avid Tennis Player and A Member of the Queen’s Club in London and the Riviera Tennis Club.
In addition to Her Husband, Survivors Include their Son, James, and Her Younger Brother, Jerry.