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Format:

Book

Author:

Laurents, Arthur, author.

Title:

Original story by : a memoir of Broadway and Hollywood / Arthur Laurents.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

Description:

ix, 436 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Summary:

"Director, playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents--author of Gypsy, West Side Story, Anastasia, The turning point and other plays and films--takes us into his life, and into the dazzling world in which he worked, among the artists, directors, actors and personalities who came of age in the theatre and in Hollywood after the Second World War."--Jacket.

Subjects:

Laurents, Arthur.

Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.

Theatrical producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.

Gay theatrical producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.

Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography.

Broadway (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Other Author:

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., issuing body.

Notes:

Includes index.

The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.

Contents:

Beginnings : Home of the Brave -- Hollywood University : Mrs. Selznick, Messrs. Litvak, Hitchcock, Cukor and Ophuls -- Master class : with Harold and Stella, Shirley and Kate, Steve and Dick -- Change of direction : I Can Get it For You Wholesale, with Stark and Merrick vs. Streisand -- The hunting season : The Way We Were, and the way they were -- Informing revisited : Jolson sings again, and other betrayals -- The moon comes out : West Side Story, Gypsy, and Tom.

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LCCN:

99040733

ISBN:

0375400559

9780375400551

Other Number:

41944755

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

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1

Control Number:

76916

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Call Number:

BIO Laurents