agent, Milton Rosner, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 11, 1951; the couple had one daughter, Eugenie, whom they adopted two years later at eight months old. Rosner remained Berner's agent despite their separation in 1954, but she filed for divorce in May 1958, citing "extreme" verbal cruelty. Though she was awarded custody of their daughter, Berner was arrested in December 1959 on a misdemeanor charge of child endangerment. Berner died at age 57 on December 19, 1969, and was interred at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, but her death was not made public until her family placed a memorial in the Van Nuys News in November 1970. She had been recovering from major surgery at a Culver City convalescent home two months before her death. Berner's personal property was sold at auction in Van Nuys in November 1971. Acting style and reception Berner's range of dialects included French, Spanish, Italian, Southern American, and New York English, which she learned by interacting with people who spoke in such accents. Her radio voice work gained unwelcome attention after a columnist described it as "being in bad taste". This in turn led to radio producers ordering her to not use foreign accents to get laughs, a ruling which Berner overturned: "I know I haven't offended anybody because in all the years I’ve been doing [accents] I’ve never, not even once, got a nasty letter." Eddie Cantor, with whom Berner first worked in the early 1930s on The Chase and Sanborn Hour, considered her then as "the greatest impersonator and dialectician of all time." Journalist Kay Gardella remarked in 1953 that interviewing Berner was "a Herculean feat" and "like trying to interview a trapeze artist while he's performing" due to Berner's switching to multiple dialects. Berner was an in-demand entertainer for American servicemen during World War II, giving over 300 performances at Army bases in addition to 84 appearances at the Hollywood Canteen and one on the in 1944. Selected filmography Shorts Warner Bros. Confederate Honey (1940) (voice) The Hardship of Miles Standish (1940) (voice) The Henpecked Duck (1941) (voice) The Daffy Duckaroo (1942) (voice) The Hep Cat (1942) (voice) Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1942) (voice) An Itch in Time (1943) (voice) Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears (1944) (voices) The Bashful Buzzard (1945) (voice) Book Revue (1946) (voices) Baby Bottleneck (1946) (voice) Bacall to Arms (1946) (voice) Hare Splitter