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Walter Wanger. Walter Wanger (born Walter Feuchtwanger; July 11, 1894 – November 18, 1968) was an American film producer active from the 1910s, his career concluding with the turbulent production of Cleopatra, his last film, in 1963. [1] He began at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and eventually worked at virtually every major studio as ...
Walter Wanger. Producer: Cleopatra. A graduate of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Walter Wanger was among the more literate and socially conscious American film producers of his time. At the peak of his career, his salary was exceeded only by that of Louis B. Mayer at MGM. Wanger had served in the air force on the Italian front during World War I. He joined the staff of President Woodrow ...
- July 11, 1894
- November 18, 1968
Already hamstrung by the financial woes of one of his subsidiaries, Diana Productions (formed in partnership with his wife Joan Bennett, screenwriter Dudley Nichols and director Fritz Lang),Wanger badly overextended himself in his financing of the 145-minute studio-bound Technicolor epic Joan of Arc (1948), starring Ingrid Bergman. The venture ...
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- San Francisco, California, USA
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- New York City, New York, USA
Aug 31, 2021 · In the third episode of Vanity Fair’s new podcast, Joan Bennett, Walter Wanger, and Fritz Lang form Diana Productions—a promising endeavor that has nowhere to go but down.
Salome, Where She Danced. Scarlet Street. Secret Beyond the Door. Shanghai (1935 film) Slightly Honorable. Smart Girl (film) Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman. Spendthrift (film) Stagecoach (1939 film)
1940 (divorced 1965). Career: Theatrical producer in New York in 1910s; opened cinema in Brighton, and worked in England as theatre manager after war; returned to the United States; general manager, Paramount, then vice president of Columbia, and producer, MGM; 1939–44—president, Motion Picture Academy; 1945—formed Diana Productions with Fritz Lang and his wife Joan Bennett; 1951 ...
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Oct 5, 2021 · Walter Wanger emerged from his four-month prison stint with an eye toward reinvention. Eager to capitalize on his macho new persona and spotlight issues surrounding incarceration, the producer ...
