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A Genius for Story: Robert Wise

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Published September 18, 2005 at 6:00 PM HST

We remember director Robert Wise, who won Oscars for West Side Story and The Sound of Music. Wise also worked as the editor of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. He died last week at 91. This interview first aired March 7, 1989.

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