Arthur Laurents

Arthur Laurents is best known as the distinguished playwright who penned such plays as Home of the Brave, West Side Story and Gypsy. These were later adapted into films by others. Laurents also collab...
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07/13/1918
Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY
  • Fellowes hired to pen Gypsy screenplay
    By: WENN.com Source March 13, 2012 2:15pm EST
    Oscar-winning Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has signed up to help Barbra Streisand bring the Broadway musical Gypsy to the big screen.
  • Famed playwright Laurents dies
    By: WENN.com Source May 06, 2011 5:00am EST
    Legendary playwright Arthur Laurents, the man behind West Side Story and Gypsy, has passed away at the age of 93.
  • Granger dies at 85
    By: WENN.com Source March 29, 2011 5:00am EST
    Hollywood veteran Farley Granger has died at the age of 85.
  • Streisand's Gypsy film scrapped
    By: WENN.com Source March 14, 2011 8:15am EST
    Barbra Streisand has been left "disappointed" after movie bosses decided not to proceed with plans for her big screen adaptation of Broadway musical Gypsy.
  • Broadway actor Manning dies
    By: WENN.com Source September 20, 2009 2:15pm EST
    Broadway, television and film star Jack Manning has died, aged 93.