Nationally known film historian Wes D. Gehring explores Wise's life from his days in the Hoosier State to the beginning of his movie career at RKO studios working as the editor Orson Welles's classic Citizen Kane. Wise is best known for producing and directing two of the most memorable movie musicals in cinema history, West Side Story ( codirector Jerome Robbins) and The Sound of Music, for which he won four Academy Awards - two Best Picture and Best Directors Oscars. But, as Gehring notes, other then Howard Hawks, Wise was ...
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Nationally known film historian Wes D. Gehring explores Wise's life from his days in the Hoosier State to the beginning of his movie career at RKO studios working as the editor Orson Welles's classic Citizen Kane. Wise is best known for producing and directing two of the most memorable movie musicals in cinema history, West Side Story ( codirector Jerome Robbins) and The Sound of Music, for which he won four Academy Awards - two Best Picture and Best Directors Oscars. But, as Gehring notes, other then Howard Hawks, Wise was arguably Hollywood's most versatile director of various celebrated genre films.
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Add this copy of Robert Wise: Shadowlands to cart. $54.79, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Indiana Historical Society.
Add this copy of Robert Wise: Shadowlands to cart. $86.98, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Indiana Historical Society.
