Walter Wanger Articles

Joan Bennett, Scarlet Street Joan Bennett is Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Evening this Wednesday, May 11. TCM has already shown Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street (1945), in which Bennett is a heartless tramp who abuses poor Edward G. Robinson. Now, Bennett can be seen in Tay Garnett's Trade Winds (1938), remarkable in that it may well be the only Hollywood movie in which a [...]

Stagecoach is the next 1939 best picture Oscar nominee to be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939.” Directed by John Ford, and starring John Wayne and Claire Trevor, Stagecoach will be presented on Monday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The [...]