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In a fit of jealousy Wanger walked up and shot and wounded Lang. One bullet hit him in the right thigh, near the hip, and the other penetrated his groin. Lang was taken to a hospital, where he recovered.
Nov 18, 2019 · After Walter Wanger began suspecting his wife, Joan Bennett, of having an affair with her agent, Jennings Lang, Wanger hired a private eye and found they were spending time in New...
Walter Wanger shoots the MCA agent Jennings Lang in 1951. The trial of attempted murder becomes one of L.A. most celebrated court battles. The incident provides an indirect inspiration for the Billy Wilder movie The Apartment (1960).
In December 1951, Lang was shot in the left inner thigh by film producer Walter Wanger, [10] who believed Lang was having an affair with his wife, actress Joan Bennett. [11] Lang survived, and Wanger, pleading insanity, served four months in prison.
Apr 13, 2012 · Joan Bennett Week: Walter Wanger shoots Jennings Lang. This is a little like putting the cart before the horse, but the previous post was about an incidental detail concerning the shooting of agent Jennings Lang by Joan Bennett's husband, Walter Wanger.
In 1951 Wanger suspected Lang of having an affair with his wife, Joan Bennett, and shot him. Lang survived and went on to produce a number of hit films, and Wanger served four months in prison, where he was appalled by the horrendous conditions.
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Aug 13, 2021 · On December 13, 1951, Hollywood producer Walter Wanger shot and wounded Jennings Lang, an agent who represented Wanger’s wife, Joan Bennett, the star of Fritz Lang’s The Woman in the Window (1944) and Scarlet Street (1945). Wanger suspected that Bennett and Jennings Lang were having an affair.
