Born in Winchester, Indiana, Robert Wise spent much of his youth sitting in darkened movie theaters enthralled by the swashbuckling heroics of screen legend Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Through these viewings, Wise developed a passion for filmâa passion he followed for the rest of his life, making movies in Hollywood. Nationally known film historian Wes D. Gehring explores Wiseâs life from his days in the Hoosier State to the beginning of his movie career at RKO studios working as the editor of Orson Wellesâs classic movie Citizen Kane. Wise is best known for producing and directing two of the most memorable movie musicals in cinema history, West Side Story (co-director Jerome Robbins) and The Sound of Music, for which he won four Academy Awardsâtwo Best Picture and Best Directors Oscars. But, as Gehring notes, other than Howard Hawks, Wise was arguably Hollywoodâs most versatile director of various celebrated genre films.
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Dec 12, 2021
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