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...Page One, and even the most cynical Hollywood moviemakers reacted with a cold chill of alarm. This was no Payton-Tone free-for-all, 'or Gardner-Sinatra burlesque. This time the triangle revolved around some of Hollywood's shiniest showpieces. The husband: Dartmouth man Walter Wanger (rhymes with Grainger), 57, noted producer (Stagecoach, Algiers) and former Academy Award president. Walter Wanger had been on the financial skids since his monumental flop, Joan of Arc; after another failure he went into bankruptcy for $175,000. But he was still a man whose name stood for respectability, culture...
Full Briefcase. While Hollywood's brass fidgeted with dismay, Wanger did nothing to set matters aright. From a jail cell, he coldly explained that he had long suspected Lang of having more than an agent's interest in his wife. In Manhattan last winter, he said, he had warned Lang: "I'll shoot anyone who tries to break up my home." Last week, with a briefcase full of private detective's reports, he decided the time had come to keep his promise...
...Mackerel. Hartman first began giving awards in 1928 when he gave the best-dressed women award to women in public life, theater, radio, movies, etc. From the "best-dressed," it was a short jump to the gold medal. In 1934 Cinemogul Walter Wanger won the first one for his "fashion-consciousness" in making pictures. From then on, Hartman gave them at the rate of about one a year, but after World War II he started handing out medals the way the Army distributes the Bronze Star...
...Bank of America filed an involuntary petition in bankruptcy in Hollywood against Producer Walter (Joan of Arc) Wanger, after it tried and failed to collect a loan of $178,476.43 advanced to help make Reckless Moment, a new picture starring James Mason and Wanger's wife, Joan Bennett...
...fear to talk back. Turning to its daily trade papers on Valentine's Day last week, Hollywood gawked at two full-page ads. Neatly encircled by a heart, the ads carried a rudely unsentimental message for Hedda from Actress Joan Bennett, wife of Producer Walter (Joan of Arc) Wanger...