On this day in movie history - Laura (1944)

Laura

directed by Otto Preminger,

written by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth Reinhardt and Ring Lardner Jr.,

based on the novel by Vera Caspary,

was released in the United States on October 11, 1944.

Music by David Raksin.

Cast:

Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson, Dorothy Adams, Ralph Dunn, Clyde Fillmore, William Forrest, James Flavin, Kathleen Howard, Larry Steers, Cara Williams, Eric Wilton.

Born on this day – Jay Dratler:

Jay Dratler

Writer

September 14, 1910 – September 25, 1968

Books:

Doctor Paradise (1957); Dream of a Woman (1958); Ducks in Thunder (1940); Goya. A portrait of the artist as a man (1936); Manhattan Side Street (1936); The Judas Kiss (1955); The Pitfall (1947); Without Mercy (1957); Zeppelin, the story of lighter-than-air craft (1937).

Plays:

A Grape for Seeing (1965); The Women of Troy (1966).

Movies and television:

Alcoa Theatre (1959); Breaking Point (1963–1964); Burke's Law (1964); Call Northside 777 (1948); Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941); Dancing in the Dark (1949); Fly-By-Night (1942); Get Hep to Love (1942); Girls Under 21 (1940); Higher and Higher (1943); I Aim at the Stars (1960); Impact (1949); It Comes Up Love (1943); It's in the Bag! (1945); La Conga Nights (1940); Laura (1944); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Meet Boston Blackie (1941); Naked City (1961); Perry Mason (1959); Pitfall (1948); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); Studio 57 (1958); That Wonderful Urge (1948); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1957); The Addams Family (1964); The Dark Corner (1946); The Desperate Hours (1955); The Fabulous Oliver Chantry (1953); The Las Vegas Story (1952); The New Addams Family (1998); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Thin Man (1958); The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942); We're Not Married! (1952); Where Did You Get That Girl? (1941).