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Robert Wise was one of the most beloved and respected filmmakers of all time. His credits include (among a host of others): Citizen Kane, The Devil and Daniel Webster and The Magnificent Ambersons (as editor); and The Curse of the Cat People, The Set-Up, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Haunting, Audrey Rose and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He died on September 14, 2005 at the age of 91. This piece originally appeared in Aunt Bessie's How to Survive a Day Job While Pursuing the Creative Life, by Joel Eisenberg. It is reprinted here with the author's permission. It can be purchased online here at Amazon.com.
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Robert Wise was born 10 th September 1914 in Indiana. The youngest of three brothers, he managed to get a job as a cutter at RKO when he was nineteen years of age. Studio executives could see potential in Wise, and he quickly rose to the ranks of editor. When Orson Welles was looking for an editor for ‘Citizen Kane’ the name Robert Wise came up, and Wise went on to do an admirable job on the movie. He went on to work as editor on a number of movies, including: ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ and ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster’.
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Robert Wise, a four-time Academy Award winner whose epic 65-year career ranged from editing Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" to directing the quintessential 1960s musical "The Sound of Music" to launching the first "Star Trek" film, died Wednesday of heart failure. He was 91.
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Robert Wise, M.D., has gained a broad overview of obstructive lung disease as an investigator in a number of lung disease clinical trials. Dr. Wise, who heads the Data Coordinating Center for the ACRC, is an investigator in the Lung Health Study, a long-term series of trials of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); the Childhood Asthma Management Program, a multicenter trial of various drugs in children with asthma; the National Emphysema Treatment Trial, a study of lung volume reduction surgery in emphysema; and the Scleroderma Lung Study, a trial of treatment of pulmonary fibrosis in patients with scleroderma, a chronic autoimmune disease of the connective tissue. In addition, he chairs the FORTE study, which is looking at retinoic acid, a derivative of vitamin A, as a potential treatment for patients with emphysema.
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Robert Wise was born in Winchester, Indiana, the son of a meat packer. He was introduced to film in the usual way, avidly taking in hours of dime matinees in his rural hometown. Once winning a season pass to a theater, he spent half the summer watching movies. Since, as a young man, his primary interest was writing, he began studying journalism. But the Depression economy demanded that he leave school to find work. His brother David, who worked in Hollywood at RKO's accounting department, arranged a job for Robert as a messenger in the editing department.
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The son of a meat packer, Robert Wise was born at Winchester, Indiana, on September 10 1914. He grew up at Connorsville in the same state and had intended to study journalism at Franklin College. But in the Depression, his parents could not afford to finance him for a second year so he left college and, in 1933, headed for California, where his older brother already worked for RKO. Through him, he obtained a job as a "gofer" in the cutting room.
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