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Born Arthur Levine, Laurents was the son of middle-class Jewish parents, his father a lawyer and his mother a schoolteacher, who gave up her career when she married. He was born and raised in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, New York, the elder of two children, and attended Erasmus Hall High School.
May 6, 2011 · The club owner, played by Melvyn Douglas, is cruel and unscrupulous, even in his dealings with his wife (Maureen Stapleton), and ultimately brings down his world in ruins.
May 6, 2011 · Laurents and Bernstein, inspired by accounts of race riots in Los Angeles, later hatched the idea of making the story be about to rival youth gangs, one white, one Puerto Rican, in the New...
Jul 31, 2009 · Laurents has written about their relationship before, in the play Two Lives, which featured 65 year-old Howard (Hatcher) and his 80-year-old partner, Matt (Laurents), in their country house ...
May 6, 2011 · Sara Krulwich/The New York Times. The parting between Rose and her would-be husband Herbie has both a sad, sour potency and one of Mr. Laurents’s immortally terse lines. When a desperate Rose ...
May 6, 2011 · Arthur Laurents, a Tony Award-winning playwright and director who wrote the books for the classic Broadway musicals “West Side Story” and “Gypsy” and later wrote the hit movies “The Way We...
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Arthur Laurents. Screenwriter. 14 July 1914 to 4 May 2011. A successful librettist, playwright and director on Broadway, Laurents saw his greatest stage successes hit the screen with West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962).
