Word: wanger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Wanger, 54, who had the courage to invest in Joan and produce it, has "repeatedly gambled on a-little-ahead-of-the-parade movie ideas.- Joan of Arc cost $4,600,000 to film, another $1,000,000 for Technicolor; it may have to gross as much as $9,000,000. A producer who bets that much on a script without sex is taking an awful chance. But Wanger had faith in an idea; and his faith was shared by his partners (Sierra Pictures is owned 40% by Ingrid Bergman, 30% each by Wanger and Director Victor Fleming). Says...
Greta Garbo, whose last movie was Two-Faced Woman for M-G-M in 1941, last week signed a contract to appear in one picture for Producer Walter Wanger. In the Garbo tradition, everybody connected with the deal promptly clammed up or looked studiously vague. Wanger, who first knew the shy Swede-when he produced Queen Christina for M-G-M in the '30s, admitted that it will probably be a period piece (know-it-alls said a biography of George Sand), shot "in Paris and Rome." Said Wanger, vaguely: "I had a couple of ideas she liked...
Born. To Joan Bennett, 38, cinemadventuress (The Macomber Affair), and third husband Walter Wanger, Hollywood producer (The Long Voyage Home): their second, her fourth daughter; in Los Angeles. Weight...
Married. Diana Wanger, 19, willowy, blonde-daughter of erstwhile blonde Cinemactress Joan Bennett (by her first husband; adopted by her third, Producer Walter Wanger) ; and John Hardy Anderson, 30, airplane-parts manufacturer; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Other top Hollywood salaries: Director Leo McCarey ($355,426), Producer Walter Wanger ($282,899), Singer "'Dennis Morgan ($261,000), Barbara Stanwyck ($256,666), Lana Turner ($226,000). Actually, the Treasury report for the calendar year 1945, and the fiscal year ended in 1946, did not tell the whole income story. It listed only salaries paid by companies, and took no account of dividends, capital gains or the "collapsible corporations" which have earned many a Hollywoodian (and many a plain businessman) far more than his salary...