Arthur Laurents

Arthur Laurents


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Although primarily a playwright and author of librettos for several musicals, Arthur Laurents has also written for both radio and the movies. Shortly after his first Broadway success, he began writing screenplays as well, producing eight over the next thirty years: The Snake Pit (1948, with Frank Partos and Millen Brand), Rope (1948, with Hume Cronyn), Caught (1949), Anna Lucasta (1949, with Philip Yordan), Anastasia (1956), Bonjour Tristesse (1958), The Way We Were (1973), and The Turning...

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