Stagecoach
1939
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They divorced in 1938, and in 1940, he married actress Joan Bennett whom he divorced in 1965. They had two daughters, Stephanie (born 1943) and Shelley Antonia (born 1948), and Wanger adopted Bennett's daughter, Diana (born 1928), by her marriage to John Fox. Wanger died of a heart attack, aged 74, in New York City.
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- Walter Feuchtwanger, July 11, 1894, San Francisco, California, U.S.
- Film producer
- November 18, 1968 (aged 74), New York City, New York, U.S.
On January 12, 1940, Bennett and producer Walter Wanger were married in Phoenix, Arizona. They were divorced in September 1965 in Mexico. The couple had two children together, Stephanie Wanger (born June 26, 1943) and Shelley Wanger (born July 4, 1948). The following year, on March 13, 1949, Bennett became a grandmother at age 39.
- Actress
- December 7, 1990 (aged 80), Scarsdale, New York, U.S.
- Joan Geraldine Bennett, February 27, 1910, Fort Lee, New Jersey, U.S.
- Pleasant View Cemetery, Lyme, Connecticut, U.S.
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When Hollywood mogul Walter Wanger (Jon Hamm) shot an agent he suspected was having an affair with his actress wife, Joan Bennett (Zooey Deschanel) — one of the key femme fatales of 1940s film noir — Bennett was the one who paid a public price for her husband’s crimes.
