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Personal Details
Other Works:
Interviewed in "Conversations with Directors", 2008.
Publicity Listings:
1 Biographical Movie
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3 Print Biographies
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6 Interviews
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11 Articles
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Alternate Names:
Robert E. Wise
Height:
5' 10" (1.78 m)
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Personal Quote:
[on
Julie Andrews] How's she got to the top? It can not be all just talent. A lot of talented don't begin to make it the way she has made it. There is a genuineness about her; an unphoniness. She goes right through the camera, on to the film and out to the audience. Julie seems to have been born with the magic gene that comes through on the screen.
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Trivia:
Agreed to direct
La mélodie du bonheur (1965) after it had been abandoned by
William Wyler on the condition that 20th Century -ox agree to finance
La canonnière du Yang-Tsé (1966). Wise, who also produced the musical, won his second Best Director Oscar and the Best Picture Oscar. The next year, "The Sand Pebbles" was nominated for Best Picture and Wise was awarded the Irving ...
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