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Walter Wanger (July 11, 1894 – November 18, 1968) was an American film producer, an intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas. Wanger was born Walter Feuchtwanger in San Francisco, California, and pronounced "Wanger" to rhyme with "danger". He served with the United States Army during World War I, and attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. His career began at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and led him to work at virtually every major studio as either a contract producer or an independent. Wanger... MORE

Walter Wanger (July 11, 1894 – November 18, 1968) was an American film producer, an intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas. Wanger was born Walter Feuchtwanger in San Francisco, California, and pronounced "Wanger" to rhyme with "danger". He served with the United States Army during World War I, and attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. His career began at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and led him to work at virtually every major studio as either a contract producer or an independent. Wanger served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1939 to October 1941 and from December 1941 to 1945. Wanger married silent film actress Justine Johnstone in 1919. They divorced in 1938 and in 1940 he married Joan Bennett with whom he remained married until their divorce in 1965. They had two daughters, Stephanie (born 1943) and Shelley Antonia (born 1948), and Wanger adopted Bennett's daughter, Diana, by her marriage to Gene Markey. In 1950, Bennett signed with MCA agent Jennings Lang. In 1951, Wanger shot and wounded Lang after accusing him of having an affair with LESS