Arthur Laurents

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Arthur Laurents (born July 14, 1917 in New York City , New York ; † May 5, 2011 there ) was an American writer , screenwriter and theater director .

Life

Arthur Laurents grew in the district of Flatbush the New York district of Brooklyn into a Jewish family. After his Bar Mitzvah , he stopped practicing the Jewish faith.

Laurents initially wrote several plays that premiered on Broadway after World War II . In the 1950s he then wrote his most famous work with Stephen Sondheim as songwriter and Leonard Bernstein as composer: West Side Story . After the enormous success of the West Side Story, he wrote his next box-office hit for Broadway with the composer Jule Styne : Gypsy . Sondheim wrote the lyrics again. Some of his plays have been adapted for the cinema, including The Time of the Cuckoo 1955 by David Lean under the title Dream of my Life (Summertime) with Katharine Hepburn in the lead role.

He also wrote some scripts for Hollywood . His greatest successes were The Way We Were with Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford and At the turning point , for which he was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe in 1978 .

Other important scripts were Cocktail for a corpse (director: Alfred Hitchcock ) and the adaptation of Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse (director: Otto Preminger ).

Arthur Laurents was also one of the interviewees for the documentary The Celluloid Closet ( The Celluloid Closet , 1995).

Works

Musical books

  • West Side Story , 1957 (German West Side Story )
  • Gypsy , 1959 (German Gypsy , 1979)
  • Anyone Can Whistle , 1964
  • Do I Hear a Waltz? , 1965
  • Hallelujah baby , 1967
  • The Madwoman of Central Park West , 1979
  • Nick & Nora , 1991

Musical direction

  • Invitation to a March , 1960
  • I Can Get It for You Wholesale , 1962
  • Gypsy: A Musical Fable , 1974
  • The Madwoman of Central Park West , 1979
  • La Cage aux Folles , 1983
  • Anyone Can Whistle , 1964
  • Nick & Nora , 1991
  • Gypsy , 2008
  • West Side Story , 2009

Stage plays

  • Home of the Brave , 1945
  • The Bird Cage , 1950
  • The Time of the Cuckoo , 1952
  • A Clearing in the Woods , 1957
  • Invitation to a March , 1960
  • The Enclave , 1973

Novels

Scripts

Awards

Tony Awards

  • 1958: Nomination in the category Best Musical for West Side Story
  • 1960: Nomination in the category Tony Award / Best Musical | Best Musical for Gypsy
  • 1968: Tony Award in the category Tony Award / Best Musical | Best Musical for Hallelujah, Baby!
  • 1975: Nomination in the category Best Musical Direction for Gypsy: A Musical Fable
  • 1984: Tony Award in the category Tony Award / Best Musical Director | Best Musical Director for La Cage aux Folles
  • 2008: Nomination in the category Tony Award / Best Musical Director | Best Musical Director for Gypsy

Oscars (Academy Awards)

  • 1978: Nomination for Best Picture for The Turning Point
  • 1978: Nomination for Best Original Screenplay for The Turning Point

Golden Globe Awards

  • 1978: Nomination for Best Screenplay for The Turning Point

BAFTA Awards

  • 1958: Anastasia was nominated for Best British Screenplay

Edgar Allan Poe Awards

  • 1949: Nomination for the best screenplay for Rope

Other prices

  • 1974: Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Drama, written directly for the big screen for The Way We Were
  • 1978: Writers Guild of America Award for Best Drama, written directly for the big screen for The Turning Point
  • 1999: National Board of Review Award in the category Best Screenplay for his life's work

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/arts/arthur-laurents-playwright-and-director-dies-at-93.html
personal data
SURNAME Laurents, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, screenwriter, and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York, United States
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2011
Place of death New York City , New York, United States