Arthur Laurents (July 14, 1917 – May 5, 2011) was an American playwright, theatre director, film producer and screenwriter. With a career spanning seven...
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The Way We Were (category Films with screenplays by Arthur Laurents)
by Sydney Pollack and starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. Arthur Laurents adapted the screenplay from his own 1972 novel of the same name, which...
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Gypsy (musical) (category Musicals by Arthur Laurents)
her next show. Merrick and Hayward approached Arthur Laurents to write the book. As he relates, Laurents initially was not interested until he saw that...
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The Turning Point (1977 film) (category Films with screenplays by Arthur Laurents)
film centered on the world of ballet in New York City, written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross. The film stars Shirley MacLaine and Anne...
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musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Richard Rodgers, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Also adapted from Laurents' 1952 play The Time of the...
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productions for Barbra Streisand, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, and Arthur Laurents. His credits include A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in 1951, Finian's Rainbow...
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Rope (film) (category Films with screenplays by Arthur Laurents)
Hamilton. The film was adapted by Hume Cronyn with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents. The film was produced by Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein as the first...
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West Side Story (category Musicals by Arthur Laurents)
music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the story...
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Do I Hear a Waltz? (category Musicals by Arthur Laurents)
musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Richard Rodgers, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. It was adapted from Laurents' 1952 play The Time of...
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1959-12-21. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2023-01-07. Arthur Laurents, Original Story By Arthur Laurents: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood (Alfred A. Knopf...
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Anastasia (1956 film) (category Films with screenplays by Arthur Laurents)
Helen Hayes. The film was directed and written by Anatole Litvak and Arthur Laurents, adapting the 1952 play written by Guy Bolton and Marcelle Maurette...
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Home of the Brave is a 1949 American war film based on a 1946 play by Arthur Laurents. It was directed by Mark Robson, and stars Douglas Dick, Jeff Corey...
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based on the book of the 1959 stage musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable by Arthur Laurents, which was adapted from the 1957 autobiography Gypsy: A Memoir by Gypsy...
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author with the man he had met the previous night. Granger and Laurents met again, and Laurents invited the actor to spend the night. He declined, but when...
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Hallelujah, Baby! (category Musicals by Arthur Laurents)
Jule Styne, lyrics by Adolph Green and Betty Comden, and a book by Arthur Laurents. The show is "a chronicle of the African American struggle for equality...
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musical comedy-drama film directed by Emile Ardolino. The teleplay by Arthur Laurents is an adaptation of his book of the 1959 stage musical Gypsy, which...
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revival of Gypsy directed by Arthur Laurents, and they approached him with an offer to direct their new venture. Laurents was not a fan of drag or camp...
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Anyone Can Whistle (category Musicals by Arthur Laurents)
a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Described as "a satire on conformity and the insanity of the so-called...
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Bernstein, book by Arthur Laurents "Something's Coming" "Like Everybody Else" ‡ Gypsy (1959), music by Jule Styne, book by Arthur Laurents: "Smile, Girls"...
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screen by Frank Partos and Millen Brand, in screen credits order, and Arthur Laurents (uncredited). Virginia Cunningham is an apparently schizophrenic patient...
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Can Get It for You Wholesale, starring Barbra Streisand. Nora Kaye, Arthur Laurents, and Herbert Ross, who later collaborated on The Turning Point, also...
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with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and book by Arthur Laurents – has been performed in countless venues on stage and in film. Both...
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revue Classic Moments, Hidden Treasures was conceived and directed by Tim McArthur, first produced at the Jermyn Street Theatre. Sondheim's "Pretty Women"...
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Bonjour Tristesse (1958 film) (category Films with screenplays by Arthur Laurents)
CinemaScope, directed and produced by Otto Preminger from a screenplay by Arthur Laurents based on the novel of the same name by Françoise Sagan. The film stars...
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City, he performed in Off-Off Broadway and Broadway productions for Arthur Laurents, Edward Albee, Robert Smith, and Doric Wilson. He appeared in William...
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/ Director 2009–2011 West Side Story Chino 2009 Broadway Revival / Arthur Laurents 2014–2015 On the Town Ensemble, u/s Gabey 2014 Broadway Revival / John...
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dancer for Gangway during the earliest Broadway pre-production of the Arthur Laurents-Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim musical later titled West Side Story...
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Nick & Nora (musical) (category Musicals by Arthur Laurents)
Nick & Nora is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr., and music by Charles Strouse. The plot involves witty and urbane...
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Broadway Richard Rodgers Stephen Sondheim Arthur Laurents Based on the play The Time of the Cuckoo by Arthur Laurents. Do Re Mi 1960 Broadway Jule Styne Betty...
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Broadway book musicals in 1967 as the third lead in Jule Styne and Arthur Laurents' Hallelujah, Baby!, and his singing is featured prominently on the...
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