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NEVER HEAL
BY LOUIS REID
Walter Wanger is seeking a reconciliation
with Joan Bennett, but the chances of her resuming
their unhappy marriage are slim
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"ill beautiful Joan Bennett go back to her unhappy husband, Walter Wanger, is still the most tantalizing question agitating Hollywood.
Since that fateful December 13, 1951 in the growing dusk of a Beverly Hills parking lot when Wanger shot Jennings Lang in the groin before Joan's horrified eyes, the screen world has wondered whether the film producer and his actress-wife would become reconciled. The latest word from Joan is NO.
There have been occasions in the long intervening months when the lovely brunette, whose life in Hollywood had been so impressively normal, appeared to be relenting a little from the dramatic finality of her attitude toward her husband just after the shooting.
Then, confronting him at Beverly Hills police headquarters, where he had boldly stated he shot Lang "because he broke up my home," she told Wanger:
"I don't want you to come back to our home when you are let out."
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Ier attorney, Grant Cooper, buttressed her attitude two days later by declaring that "while the possibility of divorce was not discussed, the likelihood of a reconciliation is remote." He added that "Miss Bennett questions her husband's stability."
Since then rumors of a pending reconciliation have cropped up periodically. Invariably, they have been accompanied by reports that Joan "had yet to make a decision" about resuming life with her 57-year-old husband.
As far back as March, 1952, Hollywood gossip had the couple reuniting for the sake of their family. But early in April Joan deferred decision about a reconciliation with Wanger "until after he deals with the law" for shooting Lang. She was then remaining in seclusion until her departure for Chicago to appear in a play.
Close associates were not reluctant, however, to make predictions. "Shell wait till it's all over," one friend said, "but I doubt if they'll ever live together as man (continued on pace 66)
After shooting, Joan told Wanger, "I don't want you to come back to our home when you are let out!"
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