I Am Alfred Hitchcock

West Side Stories: The Making of a Classic

A War in Hollywood

Words and Music by Jerry Herman

Broadway: The American Musical

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

West Side Memories

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

Rescued from the Closet

Rope Unleashed

The Way We Were: Looking Back

The Celluloid Closet

Tony Awards

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

West Side Story

Gypsy

The Turning Point

The Way We Were

Bonjour Tristesse

Anastasia

Summertime

Anna Lucasta

Home of the Brave

Caught

Rope

Arthur Laurents (July 14, 1917 – May 5, 2011) was an American playwright, theatre director, film producer and screenwriter. 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.
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. 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). He received two Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay for the Herbert Ross drama film The Turning Point (1977).

Arthur Laurents