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On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger. In 1999, Laura was selected for preservation in the Laura calder married States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
He first interviews charismatic newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker, an imperious, effete older man who relates how he met Laura and became her mentor. One night, the detective falls asleep in Laura’s apartment in front of her portrait. He is awakened by a woman entering with her own key and is shocked that it is Laura. She finds a dress in her closet that had belonged to one of her models, Diane Redfern. Now, with Laura still alive, unmasking the killer becomes even more urgent. After he leaves, Lydecker, who had slipped in, retrieves the shotgun, emerges from another room and attempts to kill Laura, saying that if he cannot have her no one can.
As he dies, Lydecker whispers “Goodbye, Laura. 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 with writer George Sklar, instead. Caspary eventually adapted the play for both a novel with the same title and a sequel, which she titled simply Laura. Interim studio head William Goetz, serving in that capacity while Darryl F. Zanuck was fulfilling his military duty, assigned Preminger the task of developing the books for the screen.
Preminger began working with Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Betty Reinhardt. Zanuck, with whom Preminger previously had clashed, returned to the studio and was angered to discover Goetz had rehired his nemesis. In retaliation, he announced that Preminger could produce Laura but not direct it and assigned him to helm In the Meantime, Darling instead. Mamoulian immediately ignored all of Preminger’s directives as producer and began to rewrite the script. To Preminger’s dismay, he cast Laird Cregar, known for his portrayal of Jack the Ripper in The Lodger, in the key role of Lydecker. Preminger filmed the actor delivering a monologue from the Coward play, and Zanuck agreed that Webb was perfect for the role. Filming began on April 27, 1944, and from the start, Mamoulian had problems with his cast.
He offered relative newcomers Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews little support, allowed theatrically trained Judith Anderson to play to the balcony instead of reining in her performance, and virtually ignored Webb, who had learned that the director was unhappy with his casting. After viewing the early rushes, Zanuck called a meeting with Mamoulian and Preminger, each of whom blamed the other for the problems on the set. Preminger finally convinced Zanuck that the material needed a more subtle approach than Mamoulian was willing to give it, and the defeated studio head, in frustration, reluctantly allowed Preminger to dismiss Mamoulian and direct the film himself. Preminger initially experienced resistance from his cast, who had been led to believe Preminger was unhappy with their work by the departing Mamoulian. Once we got used to Otto, we had a pretty easy time”, Vincent Price recalled in a July 1989 interview.
