# Love is a Crime

A podcast by Vanity Fair & Cadence 13. 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.

Feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/loveisacrime

## Latest episodes

- [New from Vanity Fair: Fair Game](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1578559817/08ff9f6d45b1) (2026-09-25, 48 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/7E7E1F/traffic.megaphone.fm/CNE1223197419.mp3
- [Introducing: "The Journey," from In The Dark](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1578559817/ae74846fd259) (2026-09-21, 60 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/7E7E1F/traffic.megaphone.fm/CNE1935588509.mp3
- [Episode 10: The Woman in the Window](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1578559817/209557204d27) (2021-10-19, 51 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/7E7E1F/traffic.megaphone.fm/CNE9676466779.mp3?updated=1762961481
- [Episode 9: Dark Shadows](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1578559817/25b0d5348f3c) (2021-10-12, 49 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/7E7E1F/traffic.megaphone.fm/CNE1953037492.mp3?updated=1762961572
- [Episode 8: I Want to Live!](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1578559817/ac4d9955c3dc) (2021-10-05, 57 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/7E7E1F/traffic.megaphone.fm/CNE5021657984.mp3?updated=1762961647
- [Episode 7: The Shooting](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1578559817/0bd6a97f8e81) (2021-09-28, 43 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/7E7E1F/traffic.megaphone.fm/CNE1626361522.mp3?updated=1762961543
- [Episode 6: Man Hunt](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1578559817/746bead791ad) (2021-09-21, 44 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/7E7E1F/traffic.megaphone.fm/CNE2732296908.mp3?updated=1762961535
- [Episode 5: The Apartment](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1578559817/c9d7ceb52333) (2021-09-14, 40 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/7E7E1F/traffic.megaphone.fm/CNE7761828281.mp3?updated=1762961514
- [Episode 4: The Reckless Moment](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1578559817/598909ff5f99) (2021-09-07, 46 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/7E7E1F/traffic.megaphone.fm/CNE4018390281.mp3?updated=1762961505
- [Episode 3: Scarlet Street](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1578559817/570a7185dade) (2021-08-31, 51 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/7E7E1F/traffic.megaphone.fm/CNE7617823597.mp3?updated=1775228559
- [Episode 2: The Man I Married](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1578559817/fbe6a6b2438f) (2021-08-24, 52 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/7E7E1F/traffic.megaphone.fm/CNE5670665906.mp3?updated=1775228200
- [Episode 1: Private Worlds](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1578559817/2e3fd4f2daf0) (2021-08-17, 65 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/7E7E1F/traffic.megaphone.fm/CNE8633340076.mp3?updated=1775228273
- [Introducing Love is a Crime](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1578559817/3489586ef745) (2021-08-10, 5 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/7E7E1F/traffic.megaphone.fm/CNE7582436581.mp3?updated=1628568959

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