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...film was made by Producer Walter Wanger at the request of U.S. Assistant Surgeon General R. A. Vonderlehr, for free distribution. Both the U.S. Public Health Service and OWI approved it. Then, at the behest of Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, the Legion of Decency's Executive Secretary, the Very Reverend Monsignor John J. McClafferty, wrote OWI's Elmer Davis...
...Producer Wanger talked back: "... I believe that the problem of controlling venereal diseases is not only a moral problem, but also a very serious public health problem. As a citizen, concerned with public welfare, I take issue with the Legion's contention that un chastity is a greater scourge than venereal disease. . . . The protest [that the film violates the Production Code] is not valid. The Code does not and was never intended to apply to educational government films. . . . The film has not been withdrawn . . . a method ... to show it will be worked...
...over to the Leftists' Beverly Hills. He was introduced with confident graciousness by California's Republican Governor Earl Warren ("We like his frankness . . ."). Wallace assured the moviemakers that they would get more business by "understanding the unexpressed hunger in the souls of moviegoers." But Academy President Walter Wanger (producer husband of Joan Bennett), with only a bit part on the program, got the biggest hand. He put aside his scheduled talk, and attacked the Alliance: "Let's keep the record straight. We, too, find home-grown communism as odious as home-grown fascism...
Bennett in-laws and ex-s turned up at Manhattan's glittery El Morocco, opened the nightclub shindy season. Joan and Barbara are not on speaking terms. Joan, her Producer-Husband Walter Wanger and party entered and found Barbara and Actor-Husband Addison Randall. Then Tenor Morton Downey, ex-of Barbara, joined Joan and party. Barbara and husband departed with Roszika Dolly and husband, but soon returned for a Welsh rabbit. Randall slipped and fell, or was tripped and fell. His in-laws and party laughed. Randall marched over to the in-laws and issued a challenge to Downey...
Born. To brunette Cinemactress Joan Bennett Wanger, 33, and Producer Walter Wanger, 48, her onetime boss: their first child, a daughter; after two and a half years of marriage, in Hollywood. Weight: 6 lb. She is also the mother of 15-year-old Diana (by John Fox), 8-year-old Melinda (by Cinemawriter Gene Markey...