Vanity Fair introduces Love Is a Crime, a 10-episode podcast series coproduced by VF and Cadence13. You Must Remember This podcast creator Karina Longworth and filmmaker Vanessa Hope—the granddaughter of Bennett and Wanger—will lead listeners through a journey to unpack just how Wanger and Bennett “ended up staring at each other over another man’s bloody body in December 1951.”
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Love Is a Crime
Love Is a Crime Podcast: Send in the Clowns
In the final episode of Vanity Fair’s podcast, Joan Bennett’s final chapter echoes her film noir beginnings, including a “volatile” fourth marriage and one last hit movie, which would become a classic in the horror genre.
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Love Is a Crime Podcast: Joan Under Fire
In the penultimate episode of Vanity Fair’s newest podcast, Joan Bennett’s career pays the price for her husband Walter Wanger’s ultimate “crime of passion.”
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Love Is a Crime Podcast: The Rise and Fall of Walter Wanger’s Cleopatra
In the latest episode of Vanity Fair’s newest podcast, Wanger leaves prison and spends his next decade trying to revitalize his waning career—starting with a prison-reform drama and ending with one of the most notorious productions in film history.
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Love Is a Crime Podcast: The Scandal Unravels
In the latest episode of Vanity Fair’s newest podcast, a passion-induced shooting changes the lives of three Hollywood figures forever—but is the wrong party feeling the most heat?
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Love Is a Crime in Photos
In Vanity Fair’s new podcast, Karina Longworth and Vanessa Hope look back at one of Hollywood’s most notorious scandals, and the two people—Hope’s grandparents—who were at the center of it.
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Love Is a Crime Podcast: A Man Pushed to the Brink
In the sixth episode of Vanity Fair’s newest podcast, probes from the Hollywood Blacklist, a plummeting film career, and his wife Joan Bennett’s infidelity drive Walter Wanger to rock bottom.
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Love Is a Crime Podcast: The Man, the Myth, The Apartment
In the fifth episode of Vanity Fair’s new podcast, Hollywood talent agent Jennings Lang is introduced, forming a notorious love triangle and inspiring an Oscar-winning film in the process.
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Love Is a Crime Podcast: The Tale of Two Joans
In the fourth episode of Vanity Fair’s new podcast, two major flops leave film producer Walter Wanger in personal and financial free fall; meanwhile, Joan Bennett uses them to fuel her new onscreen persona—and an offscreen affair that changes everything.
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Love Is a Crime Podcast: A Hollywood Partnership Built and Destroyed by Art, Money, Sex, and Celebrity
In the third episode of Vanity Fair’s new podcast, Joan Bennett, Walter Wanger, and Fritz Lang form Diana Productions—a promising endeavor that has nowhere to go but down.
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Love Is a Crime Podcast: Joan and Walter Enter a New Hollywood Era
In the second episode of Vanity Fair’s new podcast, Joan Bennett transforms into a film femme fatale and Walter Wanger hones his producing sensibilities during World War II.
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Love Is a Crime Podcast: When Walter Met Joan…
Explore the origins of a tumultuous marriage between film noir star Joan Bennett and Hollywood producer Walter Wanger, as told by their granddaughter Vanessa Hope and You Must Remember This host Karina Longworth in Vanity Fair’s new podcast.
Love Is a Crime
Go Inside One of Hollywood’s Wildest Scandals in Vanity Fair’s Newest Podcast, Love Is a Crime
In a coproduction with Cadence13, Love Is a Crime hosts Karina Longworth and Vanessa Hope explore the dark, bygone story of film producer Walter Wanger and actor Joan Bennett.