Robert Wise Articles

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins' West Side Story, NCM Fathom and Turner Classic Movies will present a one-night screening of the multiple Oscar winner in movie theaters nationwide at 7:00 pm (local time) on November 9. The West Side Story presentation includes a new Turner Classic Movies original production, followed by MGM’s 50th Anniversary restoration of the 1961 United Artists [...]

Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson in William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver I mentioned dignified, gentlemanly, and usually a little dull Walter Pidgeon the other day, wishing he had been cast as Jane Powell's grandfather in A Date with Judy (1948) so he could (more or less) have dated Carmen Miranda on-screen. Had that happened, you could forget Greer Garson — and Tracy-Hepburn, Ladd-Lake, Loy-Powell, Flynn-de Havilland, Garbo-Gilbert, [...]

Patricia Neal in her two best-known movies: Robert Wise's sci-fier The Day the Earth Stood Still, with Gort (Lock Martin) and Michael Rennie (top); Martin Ritt's family drama/social commentary Hud, with Paul Newman (bottom) Patricia Neal, who died of lung cancer on Sunday, became one of my favorite movie performers when I was a little kid and saw her in — inevitably — The Day [...]

Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York Oscar Campaign Scandal: Robert Wise, Miramax & GANGS OF NEW YORK Part I Back to Robert Wise (right) and Gangs of New York: The plot got even thicker when Murray Weissman and others later claimed that Wise himself had approached Miramax after reading another Op-Ed piece, this one published in Variety (Feb. 3, 2003) and penned [...]