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Love and Jealousy: Inside the 1951 Shooting of Joan Bennett’s Agent Jennings Lang Amid Their Affair
Beverly Hills Noir: Crime, Sin, & Scandal in 90210 author Scott Huver explores the shooting of Joan Bennett's agent Jennings Lang by her husband, Walter Wanger.
Actress Joan Bennett was sitting behind the wheel of her green Cadillac in the parking lot of a Beverly Hills office building when two gunshots rang out. “They did a succession of films together that Walter produced and Joan starred in,” explains Scott Huver, author of Beverly Hills Noir: Crime, Sin, & Scandal in 90210. At his peak with MGM Studios, Walter’s salary was second only to Louis B. Mayer’s, but his finances took a bad turn in 1948 after Joan of Arc, his film starring Ingrid Bergman, flopped due to her scandalous romance with director Roberto Rossellini.
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