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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's 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 was born Walter Feuchtwanger in San Francisco, California, and pronounced... 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's 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 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. He attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. In 1929 he was a producer on The Cocoanuts, directed by Robert Florey and Joseph Santley, starring the Marx Brothers in their first talkie. His many productions include The Sheik (1921), Tarnished Lady (1931), Gabriel Over the White House (1933), Queen Christina (1933), The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936), History Is Made At Night (1937), Stagecoach (1939), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Scarlet Street (1945), Joan of Arc (1948), The Reckless Moment (1949), Invasion LESS