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      • With a career spanning seven decades he received numerous accolades including two Tony Awards, a Drama Desk Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.
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  2. 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 (1957), Gypsy (1959), and Hallelujah, Baby! (1967), winning the Tony Award for Best Musical for the latter.

  3. He directed the musical La Cage aux Folles in 1983 and received the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical. Laurents also worked as a screenwriter on Hollywood films such as Alfred Hitchcock 's thriller Rope (1948), Anastasia (1956), Bonjour Tristesse (1958) and Sydney Pollack 's romance The Way We Were (1973).

  4. May 6, 2011 · The show ran for four years, won Mr. Laurents his second Tony, and won a Tony Award for Best Musical. But his directing career came to a virtual halt in 1991 when he staged the monumental flop...

  5. 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...

  6. In 1959 Gypsy had amazingly failed to win one Tony Award, but Hallelujah, Baby, a turgid musical with a mediocre score by Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, won Laurents a Tony, an ...

  7. May 6, 2011 · 1. The legendary scribe wrote the books for West Side Story and Gypsy and the scripts for The Way We Were and Turning Point. 2. He won Tony Awards as author of the book for best musical...

  8. Jun 7, 2024 · Arthur Laurents has won several awards, including the Founders Award for Excellence in Directing at the Drama League Awards, Best Direction of a Musical at the Tony Awards for "La Cage aux Folles...

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