Word: wanger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood beauty experts lavished their magic last week on what many a mellowing movie fan would regard as a dedicated mission. They were preparing 43-year-old Greta Garbo for her first picture since Two-Faced Woman, eight years ago. Meanwhile her producer, Independent Walter Wanger, flew to Paris, where, if all went well, filming would start in August...
Born. To Diana Wanger Anderson, 21, eldest daughter of Cinemactress Joan Bennett, and John Hardy Anderson, 31, aircraft-parts manufacturer: their first child (and first grandchild for 39-year-old Joan Bennett), a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Amanda. Weight...
...Monvel spent an enormous deal of research on his work. His studio was piled high with authentic costumes for the children and servants to sweat in, while he painted them (he never even sketched without models). Later, all this was to be a boon to Hollywood. When Producer Walter Wanger and Director Victor Fleming were making plans for Ingrid Bergman's Joan of Arc, they found tips for both costumes and settings in Boutet de Monvel...
...little better than the last hour-and-a-quarter. It deals with Joan's first hearing the voices (which miraculously are kept off the sound track) and her subsequent struggles to see the Dauphin. It is not until the Siege of Orleans that all patience is lost with Walter Wanger and Company and is never again regained...
Three other pictures won places on three lists: John Huston's Treasure of Sierra Madre, MGM's The Search and J. Arthur Rank's The Red Shoes. Two lists included Walter Wanger's Joan oj Arc, Robert Flaherty's documentary Louisiana Story, 20th Century-Fox's little comedy, Sitting Pretty, RKO's I Remember Mama and Samuel Goldwyn's The Bishop's Wife. Films that placed on one list: Call Northside 777, Apartment for Peggy, The Naked City, State of the Union, A Foreign Affair, The Pearl, Italy's Paisan...