# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-bern
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:22:19.277Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-bern"
name: "Paul Bern"
slug: "paul-bern"
description: "Paul Bern was a German-born American film director, screenwriter and producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), where he became the assistant to producer Irving Thalberg. He helped launch the career of Jean Harlow, whom he married in July 1932; two months later, he was found dead of a gunshot wound, leaving what appeared to be a suicide note. Various alternative theories of his death have been proposed. MGM writer and film producer Samuel Marx believed that he was killed by his ex-common-law wife Dorothy Millette, who jumped to her death from a ferry two days afterward."
tagline: "German-born American film director (1889-1932)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean_Harlow_%26_Paul_Bern_1932.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1889-12-03"
deathDate: "1932-09-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.94
  momentum:             10
  historical:           13.84411733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0075960/"
    handle:    "nm0075960"
sources:
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    title: "پال برن (ہدایت کار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بول برن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بول برناردونى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bern"
    title: "Paul Bern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bern"
    title: "Paul Bern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "پال برن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bern"
    title: "Paul Bern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bern"
    title: "Paul Bern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bern"
    title: "Paul Bern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bern"
    title: "Paul Bern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bern"
    title: "Paul Bern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bern"
    title: "Paul Bern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bern"
    title: "Paul Bern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bern"
    title: "Paul Bern"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bern"
    title: "Paul Bern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64678"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/319923"
    title: "Paul Bern"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump