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Early life. 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. [3][4] 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 ...
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- Arthur Laurents Papers, circa 1900-2011
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. The play was dismissed...
May 10, 2011 · My wife and I and Steve [Sondheim] dropped by for a visit where he and Tom Hatcher were racing down the slopes of St. Anton. That was in 1956 — 55 years ago.
In Laurents' autobiography, he said that he was briefly engaged to marry Nora Kaye, who instead married (and then quickly divorced) the violinist, Isaac Stern. Also longtime partner of actor Tom Hatcher .
- July 14, 1917
- May 5, 2011
The playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents wrote the books for two true classics of musical theatre, West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959), and directed the hit musical La Cage aux...
The Turning Point is a 1977 American drama film centered on the world of ballet in New York City, written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross. It stars Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft, along with Leslie Browne, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Tom Skerritt. It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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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 ...
