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Arthur Laurents

Arthur LaurentsBorn: 14-Jul-1918
Birthplace: New York City

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Gay [1]
Occupation: Playwright

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: West Side Story

Military service: US Army (1940-5)


[1] Arthur Laurents, Original Story By: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood (2000). A review of this work in Publishers Weekly notes that Laurents "is brutally honest about his personal life -- his difficulty coming to terms with his gayness, his anger at colleagues like Elia Kazan who named names to HUAC and his even greater anger at himself for working with them." Also see Gerard Raymond, "His Brilliant Career: Writer/Director Arthur Laurents", The Advocate, 9 May 2000.

Father: Irving Laurents
Mother: Ada Robbins
Boyfriend:
Farley Granger (actor, dated late 1940's to early 1950s)
Boyfriend: Tom Hatcher (dated since 1955)

    High School: Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, NY (1933)
    University: AB English, Cornell University (1937)

    Dean for America
    MoveOn.org

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    The Celluloid Closet (13-Sep-1995) Himself

Author of books:
Original Story By: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood (2000, memoir)


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