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Laura

1944
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Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Director: Otto Preminger
Writer: Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty Reinhardt
Cinematographer: Joseph La Shelle, Lucien Ballard
Editor: Louis Loeffler
Production Designers: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

Based on the original story by Vera Caspary, who first conceived the project as a stage play but later adapted it into a novel, LAURA(1944) received early attention from filmmaker Otto Preminger when it was in manuscript form. Although Caspary agreed to collaborate with Preminger on a revised version of the play for its screen adaptation, they could not agree on the dramatization, so Preminger brought on various writers including the team of poet Samuel Hoffenstein and Betty Reinhardt… Learn more at the AFI Catalog

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