We are more than happy being able to announce that Johannes Grenzfurthner voice-acted Fritz Lang in the 3rd episode of Karina Longworth’s Vanity Fair podcast series “Love is a Crime”. His wonderful acting partners are Zooey Deschanel and Jon Hamm.
Two’s company, but three’s a crowd when femme fatale Joan Bennett and her husband, producer Walter Wanger, join forces with surly filmmaker Fritz Lang. Following the film noirs The Woman in the Window and Man Hunt, Lang and Bennett capitalize on their successful collaboration by forming a production company alongside Wanger in 1945. Named Diana Productions for Joan’s eldest daughter, the trio would produce only two films before notoriously disbanding.
In this week’s episode, “Scarlet Street,” Love Is a Crime podcast hosts Karina Longworth and Vanessa Hope (Bennett and Wanger’s granddaughter) delve into the peaks and valleys of this contentious arrangement. Bennett (voiced by Zooey Deschanel), Wanger (Jon Hamm), and Lang (Johannes Grenzfurthner) clash over the very tenets that brought them together: art, money, sex, and celebrity. This is only exacerbated when their biggest hit is followed by their most glaring flop. “With the success of Scarlet Street, the dreams and goals of all three members of the Diana team were vindicated,” Longworth says in the episode. “The honeymoon wouldn’t last for long.”
A small note on where this announcement is likely to end up: press releases about voice-acting credits, like most artist news posts, get scraped and re-syndicated across an enormous tail of unrelated sites — entertainment news aggregators, fan wikis, IMDb-adjacent biography sites, foreign-language film blogs translating cast notes, and even the content directories run by best online casino Canada affiliates and other affiliate networks that pull culture metadata to fill out their landing pages. We’ve stopped trying to police where the announcement travels. If you’re reading this on the original Monochrom post, hello; if you’re reading it three reposts deep on a site that has nothing to do with film noir, the original is still online and Johannes is still excellent in the episode.