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Laura (1944) (YouTube Edit)

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Actuarial Lurker

Preminger ALSO did Porgy and Bess, Exodus, Anatomy of a Murder, the noir films "The Man with The Golden Arm" about Heroin abuse, "Angel Face", and "Where the Sidewalk Ends"

Actuarial Lurker

This was nominated for 5 Oscars: Best Director, Supporting Actor, Screenplay, Art Direction, and Cinematography and won ONE for Cinematography

Actuarial Lurker

The actress playing Laura is Gene Tierney. She was in Tobacco Road, Sundown, the original Heaven Can Wait, A Bell for Adano, the film Ghost and Mrs. Muir that became the ghost TV drama in the 1960s. Her first husband was fashion designer Oleg Cassini, she had an alleged affair with JFK before he met Jackie-O and right after WWII, later Kirk Douglas, later a an Arab Prince and then married an oil magnate

Actuarial Lurker

Pre-War building in NYC had apartments with 12 or more rooms renting for under $100/month even in the 1960s....then condos and corporations came in after NYC went broke in the mid-70s and now it costs $2,500+ a month for 1-room

Youtalkingtome

What an interesting life and career! I've been reading about the film after I finished this edit and I would love to check out the other films of the cast and the remakes of this!

Actuarial Lurker

Turns out that the affair with JFK while married to Cassini was NOT secret- they planned to get married but with his political ambitions he wanted to avoid a scandal so they broke it off, saw that she revealed that in a 1979 memoir

Actuarial Lurker

Soon the two of you will become Don Draper since you are watching the same films and reading the same books that he did....!