Word: wanger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood producer can be considered highbrow, suave, grey-eyed Walter Wanger is it. Two months ago, when he was working on an ambitious picture called The Long Voyage Home (based on Eugene O'Neill's Moon of the Caribbees, and Other Plays of the Sea), Producer Wanger decided to show Hollywood and the world a new high in artistic publicity. With the help of smart Manhattan Gallery Director Reeves Lewenthal, he hired nine of the best U. S. painters he could get to go to Hollywood and paint real high-brow pictures of scenes from the movie (TIME...
...took about ten minutes for a smart young Manhattan art director named Reeves Lewenthal to sell his scheme to Cinema Producer Walter Wanger...
...Wanger was making an ambitious movie called The Long Voyage Home, based on Eugene O'Neill's four one-act sea plays. The scheme: that Wanger import nine of Lewenthal's painters (he is head of Associated American Artists) to do scenes and characters from the movie, painted from life. The deal called for: 1) a free hand to the painters, 2) studios on the movie lot, 3) a total fee of $50,000-plus and expenses. In August the pictures will be shown at Manhattan's Associated American Artists' gallery (where Wanger and cast...
...group the nine painters went swimming, played tennis, ate, drank, toured Walt Disney's studios. Every 15 minutes or so they took time out to listen to war news. As a wind-up celebration Producer Wanger (proud of his first venture into the arts) gave them a reception attended by 400 of Hollywood's Who's Who. Afterwards cinema stars were heard to declare that they were going to visit some art galleries, now that they knew how painting was done. How they had got their own paintings done was not so clear to the painters...
Joan Bennett has moved from "Green Hell" to "The House Across the Bay," but she still can't do much more than present a very pleasant appearance and some rather poor acting. This latest production of husband Walter Wanger finds her pining away for George "The Mug With a Good Heart" Raft, whom the FBI has sent away for an Alcatraz vacation. Love is present in the form of a quadrangle, but Joan stays loyal to her George; he shows his appreciation by letting himself be shot. Lloyd Nolan, menacing as every, tries to worm his way into Miss Bennett...