Arthur Laurents
Playwright, Film writer
1917 – 2011
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Who was Arthur Laurents?
Arthur Laurents was an American playwright, stage director and screenwriter.
After writing scripts for radio shows after college and then training films for the U.S. Army during World War II, Laurents turned to writing for Broadway, producing a body of work that includes West Side Story, Gypsy, Hallelujah, Baby!, and La Cage Aux Folles, and directing some of his own shows and other Broadway productions.
His early film scripts include Rope for Alfred Hitchcock, followed by Anastasia, Bonjour Tristesse, The Way We Were, and The Turning Point.
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- Born
- Jul 14, 1917
Brooklyn - Also known as
- Arthur Levine
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Thomas Hatcher
(1954 - 2006) - Farley Granger
- Thomas Hatcher
- Religion
- Atheism
- Ethnicity
- White people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Cornell University
- Erasmus Hall High School
- New York University
- Lived in
- Brooklyn
- Died
- May 5, 2011
Manhattan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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