Love is a Crime

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Position in the Film History chart (US), last 90 days.

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#2

all-time peak

7

days in the top 3 since Nov 2024

Latest episodes

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Episode 10: The Woman in the Window

In one last noir twist, Joan marries for a fourth and final time to a man with a secret life. The last chapter of our story takes us from the Greenwich Village cross-dres

Oct 19 2021
50 min

Episode 9: Dark Shadows

While the shooting seems to enhance Wanger’s reputation in Hollywood’s eyes, the media frenzy that follows enacts a sharp price on the lives of Joan Bennett (Zooey Descha

Oct 12 2021
48 min

Episode 8: I Want to Live!

Walter Wanger (Jon Hamm) emerges from prison, and relaunches his career by producing several important films inspired by his experience, including the Oscar-winning I Wan

Oct 5 2021
56 min

Episode 7: The Shooting

In December 1951, Walter Wanger (Jon Hamm) points his gun at Jennings Lang’s (Griffin Dunne) groin and fires -- and Joan Bennett’s (Zooey Deschanel) life and that of her

Sep 28 2021
42 min

Episode 6: Man Hunt

In the years after World War II, the political climate abruptly shifts, and Walter Wanger’s (Jon Hamm) history of using movies to promote progressive causes makes him a t

Sep 21 2021
43 min

Episode 5: The Apartment

The third member of the Bennett/Wanger love triangle is Jennings Lang (Griffin Dunne), an agent at MCA, then the largest talent agency in the world. In 1951, Lang represe

Sep 14 2021
39 min

Episode 4: The Reckless Moment

Walter Wanger (Jon Hamm) bets everything on a different Joan -- Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman -- and comes up short, as the actress playing the saint sparks an int

Sep 7 2021
45 min

Episode 3: Scarlet Street

Collaborating with mad genius Fritz Lang, Joan (Zooey Deschanel) and Walter (Jon Hamm) hit the peak of both their careers and their marriage. After the success of the ult

Aug 31 2021
50 min

Episode 2: The Man I Married

Walter Wanger (Jon Hamm) transforms Joan Bennett’s (Zooey Deschanel) acting career by giving her a makeover. Now a raven-haired woman of mystery, Joan does her part durin

Aug 24 2021
51 min

Episode 1: Private Worlds

Already a divorced mom while still in her teens, Joan Bennett (Zooey Deschanel) becomes a movie actress out of financial necessity, but she struggles to define herself as

Aug 17 2021
1 h 04 min

Introducing Love is a Crime

When Hollywood mogul Walter Wanger (Jon Hamm) shot an agent he suspected was having an affair with his actress wife, Joan Bennett (Zooey Deschanel) — one of the key femme

Aug 10 2021
4 min

Chart positions

Where Love is a Crime ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Sep 12, 2026).

#46 ▼ 5 Film History US

What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

Only one episode in and I’m hooked! Definitely more of the high standard kind of podcast that Karina Longworth has spoiled us with in her own podcast “You Must Remember This.” The dramatizations are fun and different. Also appreciate Vanessa Hope’s personal point of view on the story. The co-hosts are very well-paired. Only low point— Zooey Deschanel is kind of meh.

amitiel · Aug 2021

This is absolutely fascinating! I have loved Joan Bennett since I was a kid who watched “Dark Shadows”. Over the years I have read and tried to find any and all info on her. This series is very well researched, with personal family touches! It’s excellent!!!! Can’t wait for the next episode!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations Vanessa Hope!

Mark Westlund · Aug 2021

This podcast started out a bit slow but picks up pace by episode 3. I saw Bennett years ago in Scarlet Street and could never forget her. Now I’m hooked on this fascinating podcast and eagerly await the next episode.

noodles-532 · Sep 2021

I was expecting to love this but frankly it’s heavy on the social commentary which drags the story down. Anyone who has ever read anything about old Hollywood is already very familiar with the sexist attitudes of that era and does not need a lecture about how backwards the thinking was then. They especially do not need to be told this over and over and over ad nauseam. We get it. The past was another country. Move on with the show.

M0rrgan1313 · Sep 2021

It is difficult to follow this podcast that is written like a movie script rather than a spoken narrative. The narrator makes awkward pauses and does not pronounce names correctly. I realize it’s supposed to be a “period” piece, but the many of the actors’ voices are too over the top. We could do without the annoying background music too. Sound levels need correcting.

PodWalker50 · Sep 2021

I was hooked in the beginning. The story and history is fascinating. However, the main narrator’s speech and more so annunciation is quite irritating. The overemphasissssss of words is too much. I can’t.

LC what · Sep 2021

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