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- catalog abstract "The long, colorful career of Walter Wanger (1894-1968) is one of Hollywood's greatest untold stories. Married to actress Joan Bennett, he is perhaps best remembered for shooting her lover in a Beverly Hills parking lot and for his later involvement with the catastrophic Cleopatra. But Wanger was an intellectual sophisticate and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas. His career started at the powerful Paramount studio in the 1920s, and in subsequent decades Wanger worked at virtually every major studio as either a contract producer or an independent. He produced a spate of American film classics, including Queen Christina with Greta Garbo, John Ford's Stagecoach, Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street, and Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Wanger's influence and his astute skills as a producer have received remarkably little attention, and, as Matthew Bernstein demonstrates in this insightful and engaging biography, the producer's life was fraught with contradictions and conflicts. A Dartmouth graduate, he rose to prominence at a time when articulate, college-educated producers were unknown. Although he touted the social value of the cinema, most of his own sixty-five films were markedly devoid of such value. And despite his surface appearance as a self-righteous rebel who railed at the strictures of the system, Wanger was fundamentally a satisfied representative of the American film industry.".
- catalog contributor b5731075.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Filmography: p. 433-448.".
- catalog description "He produced a spate of American film classics, including Queen Christina with Greta Garbo, John Ford's Stagecoach, Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street, and Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-432) and index.".
- catalog description "The long, colorful career of Walter Wanger (1894-1968) is one of Hollywood's greatest untold stories. Married to actress Joan Bennett, he is perhaps best remembered for shooting her lover in a Beverly Hills parking lot and for his later involvement with the catastrophic Cleopatra. But Wanger was an intellectual sophisticate and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas. His career started at the powerful Paramount studio in the 1920s, and in subsequent decades Wanger worked at virtually every major studio as either a contract producer or an independent.".
- catalog description "Wanger's influence and his astute skills as a producer have received remarkably little attention, and, as Matthew Bernstein demonstrates in this insightful and engaging biography, the producer's life was fraught with contradictions and conflicts. A Dartmouth graduate, he rose to prominence at a time when articulate, college-educated producers were unknown. Although he touted the social value of the cinema, most of his own sixty-five films were markedly devoid of such value. And despite his surface appearance as a self-righteous rebel who railed at the strictures of the system, Wanger was fundamentally a satisfied representative of the American film industry.".
- catalog extent "xx, 464 p., [44] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0520081277 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "791.43/0232/092 B 20".
- catalog subject "Motion picture producers and directors United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "PN1998.3.W345 B47 1994".
- catalog subject "Wanger, Walter, 1894-1968.".
- catalog title "Walter Wanger, Hollywood independent / Matthew Bernstein.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".