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- Birth nameArthur Levine
- Arthur Laurents was born on July 14, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Rope (1948), The Way We Were (1973) and The Turning Point (1977). He died on May 5, 2011 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Partnered to actor Farley Granger during the 40s and part of the 50s as per his autobiography Original Story By published in 2000.
- 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.
- He was a resident of Greenwich Village in New York City and Quoque, Long Island in New York.
- Also longtime partner of actor Tom Hatcher.
- Educated at Cornell University.
- I love to write and I had something to say.
- I think so many plays today stem from a notion rather than an idea. There's a great difference."
- The problem for Hollywood is that if a contemporary woman is allowed to be "aggressive" in Hollywood terms, she must either be what they consider unattractive physically, or a neurotic bitch like Faye Dunaway in Network (1976).
- Film is a director's medium. The screenplay is second in importance.
- I did a film in which the director did not change a word or a scene - but the director was so terrible, the result was unrecognizable.
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