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Laura by vera caspary6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() He sets out to grill the people in Laura’s life - Waldo Lydecker, the pompous columnist who could boast of using his clout to launch Laura’s career in its early stages her ineffectual fiancé, Shelby Carpenter, who is also might be construed as a gigolo for her wealthy aunt, Ann Treadwell and Bessie, Laura’s loyal housekeeper. ![]() ![]() The NYC police department has assigned detective Mark McPherson to investigate the case. Laura Hunt, a beautiful and successful New York City advertising executive, has been murdered in her apartment, her face rendered unrecognizable by a direct shotgun blast. The three men involved in Laura’s life and subsequently purported death are Dana Andrews as detective Mark McPherson, Vincent Price as Laura’s playboy fiancé, and Clifton Webb as pompous newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker. Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, Laura starred Gene Tierney in the title role. It was also named as one of the 10 best mystery films of all time by the American Film Institute. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for its significance. The novel remains Caspary’s best-known work, and its even better-known film version has been preserved in the U.S. Excerpted from A Girl Named Vera Can Never Tell a Lie: The Fiction of Vera Caspary by Francis Booth ©2022. Laura, the 1944 film based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Vera Caspary, has earned a secure place among the finest of the film noir genre. ![]()
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