Joan Geraldine Bennett was an American stage, film, and television actress, one of three acting sisters from a show-business family. Beginning her career on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70
Richard Bennett with his three daughters (from left), Constance, Joan, and Barbara (c. 1913)
Bennett in the trailer for Disraeli (1929)
Bennett in the trailer for Little Women (1933)
Bennett in the trailer for The Woman in the Window (1944)
Walter Wanger was an American film producer. A two-time recipient of the Academy Honorary Award, he was active from the 1920s until his career concluded with the turbulent production of Cleopatra, his
Joan Bennett
…and finally as a warmhearted wife-and-mother figure. In 1951, Bennett's screen career was marred by scandal after her third husband, film producer Walter Wanger, shot and injured her agent Jennings Lang. Wanger suspected that she and Lang were having an affair, a charge which she adamantly denied. She married…
A lobby card for History Is Made at Night with Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur
Sigrid Gurie, Charles Boyer, and Hedy Lamarr
Hayward received an Oscar for her portrayal of Barbara Graham. In her acceptance speech, she thanked Wanger.