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Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, and Clifton Webb along with Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Betty Reinhardt is based on the 1943 novel Laura by Vera Caspary.
Laura: Directed by Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian. With Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price. A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
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- Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
- Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
- 1944-11
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Laura, American film noir, released in 1944, that is considered a classic of the genre. The movie, which was directed by Otto Preminger, is notable as both a suspenseful mystery and a compelling account of obsession.
Hard-boiled police detective Mark McPherson (played by Dana Andrews) is investigating the murder of a young woman who was shot in the face. The victim is believed to be a beautiful advertising executive named Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney). McPherson examines all aspects of Laura’s life, including the two men who knew her best, her mentor—the older, snobbish newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb)—and her sophisticated fiancé, Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price). Through their stories, which are told in flashback, through Laura’s letters, and—most of all—through a haunting portrait of her, McPherson becomes romantically obsessed with the young woman. The supposedly dead Laura shockingly appears before him in her apartment, however, and McPherson discovers the true identity of the victim and solves the mystery—the jealous Lydecker had killed a woman he mistook for Laura. Determined to murder her a “second” time, Lydecker breaks into Laura’s apartment but is shot before he can kill her. He dies professing his love for her.
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•Studio: 20th Century Fox
•Director and producer: Otto Preminger
•Writers: Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth Reinhardt, and Ring Lardner, Jr. (uncredited)
•Music: David Raksin
•Gene Tierney (Laura Hunt)
•Dana Andrews (Mark McPherson)
•Clifton Webb (Waldo Lydecker)
•Vincent Price (Shelby Carpenter)
•Director
•Cinematography (black and white)*
•Screenplay
•Supporting actor (Clifton Webb)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Jan 20, 2002 · This was Clifton Webb’s first big starring role and his first movie role of any kind since 1930. He was a stage actor who refused the studio’s demand for a screen test; Otto Preminger, who began by producing the film and ended by directing it, in desperation filmed Webb on a Broadway stage and showed that to Zanuck.
Directed by Otto Preminger • 1944 • United States Starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb. One of the most sophisticated noirs of the 1940s, Otto Preminger’s classic mystery stars Gene Tierney as Laura Hunt, a Manhattan advertising executive who is murdered just before she is set to marry her playboy fiancé (Vincent Price).
May 3, 2016 · In the 1944 Twentieth-Century Fox film Laura, directed by Otto Preminger, Price takes unctuous to a whole new level. Laura is a film noir classic starring the gorgeous Gene Tierney as Laura Hunt, a successful advertising executive who is murdered—at the start of the film.
Nov 7, 2021 · Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, Laura starred Gene Tierney in the title role. The three men involved in Laura’s life and subsequently purported death are Dana Andrews as detective Mark McPherson, Vincent Price as Laura’s playboy fiancé, and Clifton Webb as pompous newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker.
