As explored in this week’s Love Is a Crime podcast, Joan Bennett (Zooey Deschanel) and Walter Wanger’s (Jon Hamm) next chapter is bookended by dueling “Joans.” The first would be 1948’s Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman, a movie mounted as Wanger’s “big end-of-the-decade gamble” akin to David O. Selznick’s Gone With the Wind. Although the movie cost $200,000 more than that Oscar-winning epic, Joan of Arc failed to find an audience of that film’s caliber. Wanger held Bergman’s headline-making extramarital affair with Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, which was publicized close to Joan of Arc’s release, responsible for the flop.
Presented by Love Is a Crime podcast hosts Karina Longworth and Vanessa Hope (Bennett and Wanger’s granddaughter), the second Joan is the one who reemerged in 1949. Bennett, implicated in her husband’s fraught attempt to regain his Hollywood standing, reinvented her onscreen persona once more. Eager to bounce back after Joan of Arc, Wanger used Bennett’s beloved home as collateral to finance 1949’s The Reckless Moment. “Ironically, the film that put Joan’s house in danger cast Joan as a woman in danger of losing her hard-won domestic stability,” Longworth says in the episode.
While The Reckless Moment proved to be a Hail Mary for Wanger, it also represented a major transition for Bennett. That year she turned 39, became a grandmother when her daughter gave birth, and watched Elizabeth Taylor play Amy in a new iteration of Little Women—a role she had played 16 years earlier. When The Reckless Moment opened to lackluster reception, it put financial and emotional strain on Bennett and Wanger’s marriage. According to Hope, this was the period when Bennett would embark on an extramarital affair.
Enter Jennings Lang, Bennett’s agent “who was accumulating power in Hollywood just as rapidly as her husband seemed to be losing it.” Things shifted from professional to romantic while Bennett filmed Father of the Bride, in which she played the doting mother of an 18-year-old Elizabeth Taylor. “That’s when she reversed and she was the mother onscreen and femme fatale in real life,” Hope said of Bennett. “Otherwise she was the mother in real life, and the femme fatale onscreen.” This reversal would only add fuel to their combustible love triangle.
Listen to the episode above, and be sure to listen next Tuesday, September 14, for the introduction of Jennings Lang, who would forever change Bennett’s and Wanger’s lives. Subscribe at listen.vanityfair.com/loveisacrime or wherever you get your podcasts.
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