Word: wanger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasant little comedy, Smart Girl marks success in a new technique for its producer. Walter Wanger, whose schedule of ambitious productions (Gabriel Over the White House, The President Vanishes, Private Worlds, Shanghai), has never before included a piece deliberately designed, as this one is, for the supporting half of double bills. People with sharp eyes who have seen Shanghai may recognize a set or two cleverly redecorated and shot from new angles. (Boyer's apartment in Shanghai is the penthouse in Smart Girl; the Stock Exchange bar. the New York cafe.) Smart Girl was previewed six times before...
That Shanghai is both less informative and less exciting than the article in Fortune which suggested it to Producer Walter Wanger is not the fault of Actor Boyer. He functions with his usual skill, contrives to make Dmitri that most familiar of cinema anomalies, a plausible individual surrounded by implausible events. Good shot : the board room of a broker's office with customers in evening dress waiting for the market to open in New York...
...Selznick, son-in-law of Louis B. Mayer, went to MGM for a fat salary two months ago. Before that he had been production chief of RKO, for which his last picture was Sweepings (see below). MGM had already appointed another associate producer to fill the Thalberg gap: Walter Wanger, one-time Eastern production chief for Paramount...
...played the piano in Carl Laemmle's first 5? cinema theatre on Chicago's west side. At 16 he owned a theatre with 144 folding chairs; soon he bought 130 more chairs; soon he owned three theatres. Katz went to work in Paramount, first edged out Walter Wanger, Lasky's friend and eastern production executive. In January 1932 he edged out Sidney Kent, general distribution manager and Zukor's friend. Soon he did the same for Benjamin Schulberg. Lasky's man. Kent went at once to Fox as president. Schulberg said that he would produce...
...Columbia Pictures line-up last week was Walter Wanger who resigned as general production manager of Paramount last June. It was his third resignation. This time the resignation stuck and he became vice president of Columbia (Mickey Mouse distributors). Harry Cohn assumed the presidency after buying the stock interest of Joseph Brandt, former president and his associate for 15 years...