Walter Wanger was an American film producer from the 1910s to Cleopatra, his last film, in 1963. He was at Paramount in the 1920s but eventually worked every major studio. He also served as president of the AMPAS from 1939 to 1945. Wanger developed a reputation as an intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive, producing provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas. He achieved notoriety in 1951 by shooting and wounding the agent of his then-wife, Joan Bennett, because he suspected they were having an affair. He was convicted and served a four-month sentence, then returned to making movies.