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Walter Wanger is a Director, Associate Producer and Presenter American born on 11 july 1894 at San Francisco (USA)
Walter Wanger (July 11, 1894 – November 18, 1968) was an American film producer active in filmmaking from the 1910s to the turbulent production of Cleopatra in 1963. Wanger developed a reputation as an intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas. Wanger was strongly influenced by European films, and made many productions geared towards international markets.
His career began at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and led him to work at virtually every major studio as either a contract producer or an independent. Wanger served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1939 to October 1941 and from December 1941 to 1945.
Wanger collabore avec Joan Bennett dès 1936 avec Empreintes digitales de Walsh avec Cary Grant. Deux ans plus tard, Wanger lance la bombe Hedy Lamarr dans son premier film américain, Casbah. En 1940, dans La Femme aux cigarettes blondes de Tay Garnett, il redéfinit l'image (brune) de Joan Bennett, qui deviendra sa femme la même année. En 1945, c'est une autre brune, Yvonne De Carlo, qu'il fait connaître dans Les Amours de Salomé. À Bennett, il offre entre autres La Rue rouge et Les Désemparés. Il produit encore Jeanne d'Arc avec la blonde Ingrid Bergman et Le Livre noir d'Anthony Mann puis, en 1951, un scandale lié à sa femme et à l'agent de celle-ci brise sa carrière (Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent de Matthew Bernstein, University of California Press, 1994).
Il revient au cinéma dès l'année suivante, et par la suite produit Les Aventures de Hadji, L'Invasion des profanateurs de sépultures et Je veux vivre ! qui vaut un Oscar à la rousse Susan Hayward. En 1963 le naufrage de Cléopâtre l'engloutit. Il meurt quelques années plus tard.
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Birth name Walter Feuchtwanger
Nationality USA
Birth 11 july 1894 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 18 november 1968 (at 74 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 11 july 1894 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 18 november 1968 (at 74 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
His career began at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and led him to work at virtually every major studio as either a contract producer or an independent. Wanger served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1939 to October 1941 and from December 1941 to 1945.
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Producteur prestigieux, dès ses débuts Walter Wanger offrit des rôles importants à de grandes stars féminines (Helen Morgan dans Applause, Tallulah Bankhead, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Claudette Colbert, Sylvia Sydney), produisant aussi J'ai le droit de vivre de Lang avec Henry Fonda et La Chevauchée fantastique de John Ford avec John Wayne, Frank Borzage, William Dieterle, Alfred Hitchcock et Jacques Tourneur.Wanger collabore avec Joan Bennett dès 1936 avec Empreintes digitales de Walsh avec Cary Grant. Deux ans plus tard, Wanger lance la bombe Hedy Lamarr dans son premier film américain, Casbah. En 1940, dans La Femme aux cigarettes blondes de Tay Garnett, il redéfinit l'image (brune) de Joan Bennett, qui deviendra sa femme la même année. En 1945, c'est une autre brune, Yvonne De Carlo, qu'il fait connaître dans Les Amours de Salomé. À Bennett, il offre entre autres La Rue rouge et Les Désemparés. Il produit encore Jeanne d'Arc avec la blonde Ingrid Bergman et Le Livre noir d'Anthony Mann puis, en 1951, un scandale lié à sa femme et à l'agent de celle-ci brise sa carrière (Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent de Matthew Bernstein, University of California Press, 1994).
Il revient au cinéma dès l'année suivante, et par la suite produit Les Aventures de Hadji, L'Invasion des profanateurs de sépultures et Je veux vivre ! qui vaut un Oscar à la rousse Susan Hayward. En 1963 le naufrage de Cléopâtre l'engloutit. Il meurt quelques années plus tard.
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Algiers (1938)
, 1h36Directed by John Cromwell, Walter Wanger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Gangster films
Actors Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Calleia, Alan Hale, Gene Lockhart
Rating65%
Pepe Le Moko (Boyer) is a notorious thief, who, after his last great heist, escaped from France to Algeria. Since his escape, Moko became a resident and leader of the immense Casbah, or "native quarter", of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspector Slimane (Calleia), who are biding their time. Meanwhile, Pepe begins to feel increasingly trapped in his prison-like stronghold, a feeling which intensifies after meeting the beautiful Gaby (Lamarr), who is visiting from France. His love for Gaby soon arouses the jealousy of Ines (Gurie), Pepe's Algerian mistress.
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Cleopatra (1963)
, 4h8Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Darryl F. Zanuck, Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Politique, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Children's films, Films about royalty
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Martin Landau, Hume Cronyn
Roles Producer
Rating69%
After the Battle of Pharsalus where Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) has defeated Pompey, Pompey flees to Egypt, hoping to enlist the support of the young Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII (Richard O'Sullivan) and his sister Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor). The Romans hold, and the armies of Mithridates arrive on Egyptian soil. The following day, Caesar passes judgment. He sentences Ptolemy's lord chamberlain to death for arranging an assassination attempt on Cleopatra. Cleopatra is crowned Queen of Egypt. She dreams of ruling the world with Caesar. When their son Caesarion is born, Caesar accepts him publicly, which becomes the talk of Rome and the Senate.
I Want to Live! (1958)
, 2hDirected by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Theodore Bikel, Virginia Vincent, Wesley Lau, Philip Coolidge
Roles Producer
Rating74%
The film tells the story of the life and execution of Barbara Graham (Hayward) a prostitute and convicted perjurer. Graham is the product of a broken home, and works luring men into fixed card games.
, 1h20Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Political films, Dystopian films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Ralph Dumke
Roles Producer
Rating76%
Psychiatrist Dr. Hill is called to the emergency room of a hospital, where a screaming man is being held in custody. Dr. Hill agrees to listen to his story. The man identifies himself as doctor, and he recounts, in flashback, the events leading up to his arrest and arrival at the hospital:
Navy Wife (1956)
, 1h23Directed by Edward Bernds
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Joan Bennett, Gary Merrill, Judy Nugent, Maurice Manson, Teru Shimada, Robert Nichols
Roles Producer
Rating48%
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
, 1h20Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Neville Brand, Leo Gordon, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, Whit Bissell, Paul Frees
Roles Producer
Rating69%
One night, several prison inmates take guards prisoner to protest brutal conditions in their prison. They then make their demands known to Reynolds Warden (Emile Meyer), a liberal-minded administrator who has complained for many years about the same conditions. James V. Dunn (Neville Brand), the prisoners' leader, meets the press outside the cell block and makes demands that they will no longer tolerate the brutal guards, substandard food, overcrowding, and barely livable conditions.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)
, 1h34Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Romance
Actors John Derek, Elaine Stewart, Rosemarie Bowe, Amanda Blake, Paul Picerni, Kurt Katch
Roles Producer
Rating59%
In Ispahan, Persia, a barber named Hajji Baba (John Derek) is leaving his father's shop to find a great fortune. At the same time the Princess Fawzia (Elaine Stewart) is trying to talk her father into giving her in marriage to Nur-El-Din (Paul Picerni) a prince known far and wide. Her father intends for Fawzia to marry a friend and ally, and makes plans to send her to him. But a courier brings word from Nur-El-Din that an escort awaits Fawzia on the outskirts of the city and she escapes the palace disguised as a boy. Hajji encounters the escort-warrior at the rendezvous spot, is attacked and beats up the escort with his barber's tools. The princess arrives and mistakes Hajji as the escort until he mistakes the emerald ring sent by Nur-El-Din to Fawzia as the prize to be delivered. In her efforts to escape him, her turban becomes unbound and Hajji realizes that the girl herself is the treasure Nur-El-Din awaits. Hajji promises to escort her and they spend the night with the caravan of Osman Aga (Thomas Gomez), who invites them to stay for the dancing girls, among them, the incomparable Ayesha (Rosemarie Bowe). The pair are overtaken by the Caliph's (Donald Randolph) guards sent to bring Fawzia back, but the guards are driven off by an invading army of Turcoman women, a band of fierce and beautiful women who prey on passing merchants.
Kansas Pacific (1953)
, 1h13Directed by Ray Nazarro
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films
Actors Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon, Douglas Fowley, Irving Bacon
Roles Producer
Rating57%
Set prior to the Civil War but after the South has seceded from the U.S., Kansas Pacific centres of the efforts to build a railroad across Kansas toward the West Coast. Southern sympathizers attempt to sabotage the railroad construction efforts so Army Captain John Nelson, played by Sterling Hayden, is brought in to keep the project going. Captain Nelson must not only contend with the efforts of the saboteurs but also try to romance the railroad foreman's daughter, Barbara Bruce, who is played by Eve Miller. This film also features Clayton Moore, best known for his roles in films and on television of The Lone Ranger.
Fort Vengeance (1953)
Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Reginald Denny, James Craig, Rita Moreno, Charles Irwin, Emory Parnell, Keith Larsen
Roles Producer
Rating58%
Battle Zone (1952)
, 1h22Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres War
Themes Political films
Actors John Hodiak, Linda Christian, Charles Bronson, Stephen McNally, Martin Milner, Philip Ahn
Roles Producer
Rating52%
A rivalry develops between veteran of World War II M/Sgt Danny Young (John Hodiak) and Sgt. Mitch Turner (Stephen McNally) Marine combat photographers over the attentions of Jeanne (Linda Christian), a Red Cross nurse during the Korean War.
Aladdin and His Lamp (1952)
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Actors Johnny Sands, Patricia Medina, Richard Erdman, John Dehner, Billy House, Nedrick Young
Roles Producer
Rating56%
The Reckless Moment (1949)
, 1h22Directed by Max Ophüls, Earl Bellamy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Shepperd Strudwick, Henry O'Neill, Roy Roberts
Roles Producer
Rating70%
California housewife Lucia Harper (Joan Bennett) attempts to cover up what she believes (erroneously) to be her daughter (Geraldine Brooks)'s accidental killing of an undesirable ex-lover Darby (Shepperd Strudwick).
Tulsa (1949)
, 1h30Directed by Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendáriz, Lloyd Gough, Chill Wills, Ed Begley
Roles Producer
Rating61%
The plot revolved around the Tulsa, Oklahoma oil boom of the 1920s and detailed how obsession with accumulating wealth and power can tend to corrupt moral character. The story begins with the death of rancher Nelse Lansing, who is killed by an oil well blowout while visiting a well operated by Tanner Petroleum to report that pollution from the oil production has killed some of his cattle. The plot thickens as Lansing's daughter, Cherokee, acquires drilling rights and meets Brad Brady, a geologist who wants the oil drillers to limit their drilling in order to minimize oil field depletion and to preserve the area's grasslands.
Tap Roots (1948)
, 1h49Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Van Heflin, Susan Hayward, Boris Karloff, Julie London, Ward Bond, Richard Long
Roles Producer
Rating64%
La famille Dabney est propriétaire d’une vaste plantation à Levington dans le Mississippi mais la guerre de Sécession menace d’éclater. Morna Dabney, son père Hoab et son grand-père Big Sam sont bien décidés à rester neutre durant le conflit malgré les convictions opposées de Clay McIvor, officier sudiste fiancé à Morna. Toute la famille a rallié la population du comté pour former un état neutre, soutenu par le journaliste local, Keith Alexander. La guerre éclate. L’armée sudiste n’accepte pas la neutralité de Levington et avec Clay au commandement, les confédérés décident d’attaquer le comté...
Joan of Arc (1948)
, 2h25Directed by Richard Rosson, Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Jeanne d'Arc, Political films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France
Actors Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, George Coulouris, Gene Lockhart
Roles Producer
Rating63%
Unlike the play Joan of Lorraine, which is a drama that shows how the story of Joan affects a group of actors who are performing it, the film is a straightforward recounting of the life of the French heroine. It begins with an obviously painted shot of the inside of a basilica with a shaft of light, possibly descending from heaven, shining down from the ceiling, and a solemn off-screen voice pronouncing the canonization of the Maid of Orleans. Then, the opening page of what appears to be a church manuscript recounting Joan's life in Latin is shown on the screen, while some uncredited voiceover narration by actor Shepperd Strudwick sets up the tale. The actual story of Joan then begins, from the time she becomes convinced that she has been divinely called to save France to her being burnt at the stake at the hands of the English and the Burgundians.