Remembering Robert Wise on his birthday 🎂
📷 Erich Lessing, 1964
"His films became increasingly fascinating to me because of the editing style, a very crisp, clear style of editing that kind of points the audience toward where to look in a scene."
- Martin Scorsese
Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins on the left of the West Side Story camera; to the right is cinematographer Daniel Fapp, 1961
Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise shared the Director credit for West Side Story. This 1960 Gjon Mili shot for Life Magazine shows the two on set.
I love this shot!
Shirley MacLaine, Robert Mitchum & director Robert Wise in Two For The Seesaw
MGM, 1962
Jack Harris was the uncredited still photographer on the set.
Robert Wise directs Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music.
Photo: Erich Lessing, 1964
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