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Robert Wise

Shadowlands (book in English)

by Wes D. Gehring

Type
Biographies
Subject
DirectorRobert Wise
Keywords
Robert Wise
Publishing Date
2011
Publisher
Indiana Historical Society
Collection
(no collection)
Language
English
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Physical desc.
Hardcover • 322 pages • 18,95 €
6 ¼ x 9 inches (16 x 23 cm)
ISBN
978-0-87195-296-7
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Book Presentation:
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 film a passion he followed for the rest of his life, making movies in Hollywood. 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 of Orson Welles s 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 Awards two Best Picture and Best Director Oscars. But, as Gehring notes, other than Howard Hawks, Wise was arguably Hollywood s most versatile director of various celebrated genre films. For example, his roots in horror go back to a tutelage under the great producer Val Lewton, with Wise directing Boris Karloff s chilling The Body Snatcher (1945) for Lewton. Years late Wise brilliantly adapted a Shirley Jackson novel as a homage to Lewton, The Haunting (1963). No less a horror aficionado than Stephen King later gave both Jackson s novel (originally entitled The Haunting of Hill House) and the film his highest praise in his nonfiction study of horror, Danse Macabre. In an American Film Institute seminar in 1980 Wise told students, People ask me, do I prefer to do musicals to drama or comedy? I like them all. If it s good, exciting, gripping, original material, that s what s important, what counts. Wise died on September 14, 2005, four days after his ninety-first birthday.

About the Author:
Wes D. Gehring is a professor of film at Ball State University and an associated media editor for USA Today Magazine, for which he also writes the column Reel World. The award-winning author of twenty-eight books, Gehring has written biographies of such screen legends as Charlie Chaplin, W. C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Irene Dunne, Carole Lombard, James Dean, Steve McQueen, and Red Skelton.

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