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- 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.
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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.
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.
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The Walter Wanger Studio. From 1936 to 1938 Wanger maintained the largest group of stars under contract to any independent producer: Charles Boyer, Joan Bennett, Sylvia Sydney, Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Pat Paterson, Marla Shelton, Alan Baxter, Tim Holt and Louise Platt.
Oct 5, 2021 · In the second episode of Vanity Fair’s new podcast, Joan Bennett transforms into a film femme fatale and Walter Wanger hones his producing sensibilities during World War II.
An intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas, Wanger’s career started at Paramount studios in the 1920s and led him to work at virtually every major studio as either a contract producer or an independent.
At the suggestion of producer Walter Wanger, her third husband, she changed her hair colour from blonde to brunette, which led to her successes in leading roles. They included a series of films noir directed by Fritz Lang, including Woman in the Window (1944) and Scarlet Street (1945), followed by…. Read More.
Produced a Broadway play before serving as an officer with Army Intelligence in WWI and a staffer with President Wilson's negotiating team at the Paris Peace Conference. Wanger went on to become a producer with Paramount, finally attaining the position of production chief. He served in similar...
