02691nam 22005291 450 991046469960332120200520144314.00-87195-347-1(CKB)3710000000072384(EBL)1565995(SSID)ssj0001060285(PQKBManifestationID)11674193(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060285(PQKBWorkID)11086445(PQKB)11480843(MiAaPQ)EBC1565995(Au-PeEL)EBL1565995(CaPaEBR)ebr10807865(OCoLC)922907176(EXLCZ)99371000000007238420110819d2012 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrRobert Wise shadowlands ; a Wes D. Gehring biographyIndianapolis :Indiana Historical Society Press,2012.1 online resource (351 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87195-296-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-322) and filmography.The early years -- A career detour: 1930s Hollywood -- Orson Welles -- Val Lewton and becoming a director -- Lewton and Maupassant: a template picture -- Wise's first noir classic: Born to kill -- Signature cinema: the set-up -- Life after RKO: The day the earth stood still and genre diversity -- Melodrama in various war settings: Run silent, run deep as metaphor -- "portraits" and biographies doubling as melodramas and/or noirs -- Wise's brass-ring decade: the 1960s -- Filmmaking: "a terribly expensive paint box" -- Epilogue.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 mostMotion picture producers and directorsUnited StatesBiographyElectronic books.Motion picture producers and directors791.4302/33092BGehring Wes D874497MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464699603321Robert Wise2197726UNINA