In 1951 Wanger shot and injured Bennett 's new MCA agent , Jennings Lang ( 1915-1996 ) , with whom she had allegedly begun an affair . The resulting scandal hurt her career much more than Wanger 's , according to the double standards toward women of the time .
In 1951 , Bennett 's screen career was marred by scandal after her third husband , film producer Walter Wanger , shot and injured her agent Jennings Lang .