был её тогдашний муж

[arbeka]

был её тогдашний муж

((Насколько понимаю, в те дремучие времена, это был очень распространенный вариант. Продюсером выступал муж, любовник, брат, сват. Семейный подряд, так сказать.))
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«Тайна за дверью» (англ. Secret Beyond the Door) — кинофильм режиссёра Фрица Ланга, выпущенный на экраны в 1948 году.

Картина содержит черты готического триллера, психологического хоррора и мелодрамы, рассказывая историю молодой женщины, которая подозревает своего мужа в том, что он хочет убить её.

Главную роль в картине исполнила Джоан Беннетт, это была её третья совместная работа с Лангом после «Женщины в окне» и «Улицы греха». Продюсером фильма был её тогдашний муж Уолтер Венгер.

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Joan Bennett

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Джоан Беннетт (англ. Joan Bennett, 27 февраля 1910 — 7 декабря 1990) — американская актриса, сестра Барбары и Констанс Беннетт. Помимо многочисленных ролей на театральной сцене она также сделала успешную кинокарьеру, начав сниматься ещё со времён немого кино. Её наиболее известные кинороли были в фильмах «Женщина в окне» (1944) и «Улица греха» (1945).

«Вечный город» (англ. The Eternal City) — немая военная мелодрама 1923 года.

Joan Geraldine Bennett was born in the Palisade section of Fort Lee, New Jersey,[3] on February 27, 1910, the youngest of three daughters of actor Richard Bennett and actress/literary agent Adrienne Morrison.

On September 15, 1926, 16-year-old Bennett married John M. Fox in London. They were divorced on July 30, 1928 in Los Angeles on charges of his alcoholism.[6] They had one child, Adrienne Ralston Fox (born February 20, 1928)

Spouse(s) John Marion Fox
(m. 1926; div. 1928)

Gene Markey
(m. 1932; div. 1937)

Walter Wanger
(m. 1940; div. 1965)

David Wilde
(m. 1978)
Children 4

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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, his last film, in 1963.

Wanger was born Walter Feuchtwanger in San Francisco. He was the son of Stella (Stettheimer) and Sigmund Feuchtwanger, who were from German Jewish families that had emigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century.[1] Wanger was from a non-observant Jewish family, and in later life attended Episcopalian services with his wife. In order to assimilate into American society, his mother altered the family name simply to Wanger in 1908.[2] The Wangers were well-connected and upper middle class, something which later differentiated Wanger from the other Jewish film moguls who came from more ordinary backgrounds.

Wanger married silent film actress Justine Johnstone in 1919. They divorced in 1938, and in 1940, he married actress Joan Bennett to whom he remained married until their divorce in 1965. They had two daughters, Stephanie (born 1943) and Shelley Antonia (born 1948), and Wanger adopted Bennett's daughter, Diana (born 1928), by her marriage to John Fox.

Wanger died of a heart attack, aged 74

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Starting in 1950, and continuing for 12 years, Wanger's wife Joan Bennett was represented by agent Jennings Lang. Formerly the vice president of the Jaffe Agency, he had become the head of MCA's West Coast television operations. On the afternoon of December 13, 1951, Bennett and Lang had a meeting to talk over an upcoming television show.

Bennett parked her Cadillac convertible in the lot at the back of the MCA offices, at Santa Monica Boulevard and Rexford Drive, across the street from the Beverly Hills Police Department, and she and Lang drove off in his car. Meanwhile, her husband drove by at about 2:30 p.m. and noticed his wife's car parked there. Half an hour later, he again saw her car there and stopped to wait. Bennett and Lang drove into the parking lot a few hours later and he walked her to her convertible. As she started the engine, turned on the headlights and prepared to drive away, Lang leaned on the car, with both hands raised to his shoulders, and talked to her.

In a fit of jealousy, Wanger walked up and twice shot and wounded the unsuspecting agent. One bullet hit Lang in the right thigh, near the hip, and the other penetrated his groin. Bennett said she did not see Wanger at first. She said she suddenly saw two livid flashes, then Lang slumped to the ground. As soon as she recognized who had fired the shots, she told Wanger "Get away and leave us alone." He tossed the pistol into his wife's car.[21]

She and the parking lot's service station manager took Lang to the agent's doctor. He was taken to a hospital, where he recovered. The police, who had heard the shots, came to the scene and found the gun in Bennett's car when they took Wanger into custody. Wanger was booked and fingerprinted, and underwent lengthy questioning. He was booked on suspicion of assault with intent to commit murder.

"I shot him because I thought he was breaking up my home", Wanger told the chief of police of Beverly Hills. Bennett denied a romance, however. "But if Walter thinks the relationships between Mr. Lang and myself are romantic or anything but strictly business, he is wrong", she declared. She blamed the trouble on financial setbacks involving film productions Wanger was involved with, and said he was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The following day Wanger, out on bond, returned to their Holmby Hills home, collected his belongings and moved out. Bennett, however, said there would not be a divorce.