Walter Wanger (July 11, 1894 – November 18, 1968) was an Academy Award-winning American film producer. An intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas, Wanger's career started 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 Pi...
more
Walter Wanger (July 11, 1894 – November 18, 1968) was an Academy Award-winning American film producer. An intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas, Wanger's career started 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.
For the most complete sense of Walter Wanger's life and film career, read Matthew Bernstein's book Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent and The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era by Thomas Schatz. Wanger was born Walter Feuchtwanger in San Francisco, California, and pronounced "Wanger" to rhyme with "danger". He served with the United States Army during World War I. He attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
He produced his first...
less
