Love is a Crime

Vanity Fair & Cadence 13
Weekly podcast.
It’s one of the wildest scandals in Hollywood history: In 1951, major Hollywood producer Walter Wanger (Jon Hamm) went to prison for shooting an agent who he suspected was having an affair with Joan Bennett (Zooey Deschanel), Wanger’s actress wife. When the dust settled, Wanger was accepted back into Hollywood’s inner circle with open arms, while a puritan panic virtually ended Bennett’s career in movies and her family would never be the same. How did Joan — the youngest member of one of America’s most famous acting families, and one of the key femme fatales of 1940s film noir — end up a real-life fallen woman, paying a public price for her husband’s crimes? In this limited podcast series, Joan and Walter’s granddaughter/filmmaker Vanessa Hope, and film historian/podcaster Karina Longworth (You Must Remember This), tell the untold story of the Bennett/Wanger romance and professional partnership — a film noir played out in real life.
11 episodes  •  0 archived  •  
Oct 19, 2021
Oct 19, 2021
48 mins
Oct 12, 2021
Oct 12, 2021
47 mins
Oct 5, 2021
Oct 5, 2021
54 mins
Sep 28, 2021
Sep 28, 2021
40 mins
Sep 21, 2021
Sep 21, 2021
41 mins
Sep 14, 2021
Sep 14, 2021
38 mins
Sep 7, 2021
Sep 7, 2021
44 mins
Aug 31, 2021
Aug 31, 2021
50 mins
Aug 24, 2021
Aug 24, 2021
51 mins
Aug 17, 2021
Aug 17, 2021
1h 2m