Laura
Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Director: Otto Preminger
Writer: Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Ring Lardner Jr.
Producer: Otto Preminger
Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, along with Clifton Webb, 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 received five Oscar nominations, including for Best Director, winning for Best Black and White Cinematography.
Trivia
- Won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White.
- Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; Academy Award for Best Director; Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay; Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White.
- Based on Laura (detective novel by Vera Caspary).
- Otto Preminger was looking for a theatrical project to direct and first became aware of Vera Caspary's story when her agent offered him the first draft of a play called Ring Twice for Laura.
- Preminger liked the high-society setting and the unusual plot twist, but he felt the work needed a major revision and offered to rewrite it with its author.
- Caspary and he disagreed about the direction they should take it, and she opted to collaborate instead with writer George Sklar.
Previous Showings
24 Runs • 14 Festivals
41,126 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (November 30, 1944)
Original Run: November 30, 1944 (Thursday - Saturday)
All runs on record (24):
- November 30, 1944 (Thursday - Saturday)Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
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- September 7 - 10, 1991 · 2,020 ticketsw/ The Postman Always Rings Twice
- January 11 - 17, 1992 · 3,957 ticketsw/ The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- September 18 - 24, 1993 · 2,393 ticketsw/ The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- January 28 - February 2, 1995 · 2,020 ticketsw/ The Bad and the Beautiful
- June 3 - 4, 1995 · 907 ticketsw/ Forever Amber
- July 25 - 26, 1996 · 1,108 ticketsw/ The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- March 20 - 23, 1997 · 2,385 ticketsw/ Fallen Angel, Mother Wore Tights
- September 11 - 16, 1999 · 1,982 ticketssummer99w/ The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- August 11 - 14, 2001 · 3,151 ticketssummer2k1w/ The Bad and the Beautiful
- November 30 - December 1, 2002 · 972 ticketsFall Folliesw/ The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- August 6 - 11, 2005 · 3,214 ticketsSummer 2005w/ The Philadelphia Story
- August 25 - 28, 2006 · 1,957 ticketsSummer 2006w/ Gilda
- September 15 - 18, 2007 · 1,464 ticketsSummer 2007 63 films in 12 weeks, including 22 films starring Fred Astairew/ Shadow of a Doubt
- February 7 - 9, 2009 · 839 ticketsWinter 2009w/ Sitting Pretty
- October 9 - 10, 2009 · 876 tickets20th Anniversary Festivalw/ The Big Sleep
- October 23 - 25, 2010 · 730 ticketsFall 2010 Featuring film noir every Thursday and Fridayw/ Letter from an Unknown Woman
- March 16 - 19, 2012 · 1,432 ticketsWinter 2012w/ The Bad and the Beautiful
- July 27 - 30, 2013 · 1,692 ticketsSummer 2013w/ The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- February 11 - 21, 2016 · 2,882 ticketsw/ The Philadelphia Story, Singin' in the Rain
- August 3 - 5, 2018 · 1,448 ticketsSummer 2018w/ The Philadelphia Story
- August 25 - 26, 2022 · 700 ticketsSummer 2022w/ Shanghai Express
- October 19 - 20, 2024 · 1,164 ticketsFilm Noir plus Val Lewtonw/ Out of the Past