Walter Wanger
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Walter Wanger was an American film producer active from the 1910s, his career concluding with the turbulent production of Cleopatra, his last film, in 1963. He began at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and eventually worked at virtually every major studio as either a contract producer or an independent.
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Filmography 40
Cleopatra
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Stagecoach
Foreign Correspondent
Scarlet Street
Queen Christina
You Only Live Once
Secret Beyond the Door
The Reckless Moment
I Want to Live!
Joan of Arc
The Cocoanuts
The Long Voyage Home
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Riot in Cell Block 11
Canyon Passage
Arabian Nights
History Is Made at Night
Algiers
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Gung Ho!
Tulsa
The Lost Moment
Big Brown Eyes
Sundown
Kansas Pacific
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Applause
Stand-In
Tap Roots
The Adventures of Hajji Baba
Going Hollywood
Gabriel Over the White House
The House Across the Bay
Blockade
Private Worlds
Trade Winds
Salome, Where She Danced
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
The Lady Lies69 credits on file
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About this person
Walter Wanger was an American film producer active from the 1910s, his career concluding with the turbulent production of Cleopatra, his last film, in 1963. He began at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and eventually worked at virtually every major studio as either a contract producer or an independent. He also served as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1939 to October 1941 and from December 1941 to 1945. Strongly influenced by European films, Wanger developed a reputation as an intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas. He achieved notoriety when, in 1951, he shot and wounded the agent of his wife, Joan Bennett, because he suspected they were having an affair. He was convicted of the crime and served a four-month sentence, then returned to making movies.
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