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	Laura (1944 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Laura is a 1944 film noir which tells the story of a police detective, investigating a woman's murder, who falls in love with her portrait.
		Jennifer Jones was first choice for the role of Laura, but she turned it down.
		Hedy Lamarr was also offered the role, but she rejected the script, later acknowledging that she would have taken the role if she'd heard the film score in advance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laura_(1944_movie) (515 words)

	Twin Peaks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the first season it was the search for Laura Palmer's killer that drove the show and caught the public's imagination, although the creators admitted this was a macguffin designed to keep the audience coming back for more, as each episode was really about the townsfolk and the sinister underbelly of the seemingly idyllic town.
		Cooper quickly establishes that Laura's character and relationships are not as they first appear, and that she's far from the wholesome homecoming queen that the town knew her as.
		Laura Hunt in the movie is thought to have been murdered in the doorway of her apartment, but reappears midway through, having let her apartment to a friend named Diane who was the actual victim.
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	LAURA
		LAURA is a classic film noir mystery with a campy tone that brings intrigue and amusement to the rather mundane workings of a murder investigation.
		The first half of the film is a haunting ghost story, as the personality of Laura is revealed (in flashbacks) through the eyes of the men who supposedly loved her.
		He made Laura into the dazzling creature she became and he’ll be damned if he’s going to allow anyone, including Laura herself, to debase his creation.
	www.crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsL/f_laura.html (841 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Laura
		With Laura alive and well, McPherson has to work over time to figure out who the victim really was, who shot her dead, and most importantly, why they did it.
		Laura is, to coin a phrase, who every woman wants to be and who every man wants to be with.
		Laura is a solid mystery/noir with a stellar cast and a couple of nicely executed plot twists.
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		Bridgman, Laura Bridgman, Laura, 1829-89, the first blind and deaf person to be successfully educated, b.
		Laura Laura, subject of the love poems of Petrarch.
		She is thought to be Laura de Noves (1308?-1348), wife of Hugo de Sade, but this has not been proved.
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	Laura Movie Review at Hollywood Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At the center of the mystery is Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), a young New York career woman whose life has been stilled by a shotgun blast to the face.
		The fey Lydecker's interest in Laura was apparently non-sexual, but he regarded her as his most prized possession, jealously attacking her suitors in print to keep her to himself.
		While that prospect upset Lydecker, Laura's friend, Ann Treadwell (Judith Anderson), was no less discombobulated by Laura's engagement, since she is also in love with Shelby.
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	aura corrected for laura (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Who Laura was and even if she really existed is a bit of a mystery.
		It has often been believed that the name "Laura" was a play on the name "laurel" the leaves which Petrarch was honoured with for being the poet laureate.
		Born 6 years after Petrarch in 1310 in Avignon she was the daughter of Audibert de Noves (a Knight) and wife to Hugues II de Sade (and possibly the ancestor of the infamous Marquis de Sade).
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	Laura (1944)
		Young, beautiful and talented Laura Hunt is thought to have been murdered, since a body was found in her apartment, dressed in her clothes, though with face obliterated by a shotgun blast.
		His somewhat erratic methods of investigation finally bear fruit when, having extracted an assurance from Laura that she is not interested in marriage with Carpenter, he finds evidence to incriminate Lydecker.
		In a fast-moving denouement, it is revealed that Lydecker had killed the model mistaking her for Laura, motivated by the jealous desire to prevent her consummating any relationship with a younger man; realising his mistake, he tries to murder her a second time, but is shot before he can do so.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Laura [1944]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although Waldo did not have a sexual relationship with Laura, they were great friends, he admired her beauty and gave her first big break in the advertising world where she moved into a position of prominence through her own ability.
		Laura's older aunt, Anne Treadwell (Judith Anderson), is in love with Shelby and doesn't care if his character is rotten, even supporting the bankrupt society person from Kentucky with funds.
		Laura is a provocatively twisted tale; a very satisfying seductive thriller that explores the nature of unrequited love and the notion that misplaced romantic infatuation will always end in disaster.
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	Laura (1944)
		Laura (1944) is one of the most stylish, elegant, moody, and witty classic film noirs ever made with an ensemble cast of characters.
		Laura is characterized by shadowy, dream-like, high-contrast fl and white cinematography, and taut and smart dialogue in a quick succession of scenes.
		Laura, who works for an advertising firm as a designer and has an enterprising, ambitious and independent spirit, wishes to have him endorse a fountain pen her ad agency is promoting - her career rests upon his signature.
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	Laura - DVD Movie Central
		Killed by a shotgun blast to the face, presumably in a crime of passion, Laura is identified through her clothing, and an investigation is soon launched to locate the missing murder weapon as well as the murderer.
		Laura herself is the very embodiment of the perfect woman, the unattainable ideal that only truly exists in dreams or memories.
		Laura was originally to have been a part of Fox's on-going "Studio Classics" series but was set aside instead as the first special edition installment in the new "Fox Film Noir" series.
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	Amazon.com: Laura (1944): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Laura" is a tight, smart murder/mystery with some VERY dark undertones-the effects of beauty and desire on a frustrated and twisted psyche, the destructive and venal thoughts hidden behind a veneer of sophistication and wit, and a man's growing obsession with a (presumably) dead woman are just some of the dark forces at work here.
		What sets this particular movie apart from the rest of the genre, is it's cast and it's tasteful telling of the story, which includes the creme de la creme of New York society, played to the hilt by the cast.
		One of my chief joys in watching this movie, is the scene of Clifton Webb (as the acerbic critic, Waldo Lydecker) sitting in his enormous fl bathtub(!) typing furiously, and relishing the power he has by virtue of his position as a critic.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008LDNZ?v=glance (2043 words)

	Twin Peaks - TV Guide Authors Resolve Mystery
		I also think it's the real Laura who shot Agent Cooper because she believed he was getting too close to solving the murder.
		Given the kind of girl we now know Laura was, and what a neurotic guy Leland is, it's possible that he could have bumped her off in a rage after he found out she was working at One-Eyed Jacks.
		Laura wanted to come back as Madeleine so she could start afresh and escape her tainted past.
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	Encyclopedia: Laura-(1944-movie) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
		Film noir is a stylistic approach to genre films forged in depression-era detective and gangster movies and hard-boiled detective stories which were a staple of pulp fiction.
		The score, notable for its haunting title theme (which has since become a jazz standard recorded over 400 times), was written by David Raksin.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Laura_%281944_movie%29 (755 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Laura (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Laura is as original and contemporary today as it was when first released in 1944.
		The story begins with the discovery of the murder of Laura Hunt (Tierney), a young advertising executive in New York City, and as detective Mark McPherson (Andrews) makes his investigation and begins to fit together the pieces of the puzzle of Laura's life and death, the essence of who she was begins to emerge.
		This is not the case with Laura, however; Tierney's character suffers somewhat from lack of development, and as the story unfolds, she seems to get from here to there with little discernible change.
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	Amazon.com Reviews for Laura (1944) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The cop is a romantic hiding under a hard-boiled exterior who falls in love with the beautiful victim through the portrait that hangs in her apartment, when one lonely night he turns from the picture to see Laura walk through the door.
		Gene Tierney, whose heart-shaped face mixes the exotic with the girl next door, brings the poise and calm of a model to her role as Laura, the object of every man's gaze and the target of a killer that missed once but is bound to try again.
		Laura, handsomely shot in dreamy fl and white, is the first and best of Otto Preminger's cool, controlled murder mysteries.
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	Laura (1944) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		'Laura' is one of the most entertaining mystery movies I've ever seen.
		Andrews ('Night Of The Demon') plays a detective investigating Laura's apparent murder, Price, years before becoming a horror icon, a gigolo type who is due to marry her, and Webb (best known as Mr.
		'Laura' is one of the very best Hollywood movies of the 1940s.
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		Laura asks him to endorse a pen, but he treats her with contempt.
		Laura comes in and says she was in the country.
		Mark comes in and tells Laura that her shotgun was not the murder weapon.
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	Laura (1944 movie): Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Laura (1944 movie)
		Laura (1944 movie): Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Laura (1944 movie)
		Laura is a 1944 film noir film which tells the story of a police detective, investigating a woman's murder, who falls in love with her portrait.
		The movie was adapted by Jay Dratler[?], Samuel Hoffenstein[?], Elizabeth Reinhardt[?] and Ring Lardner Jr.
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	JoBlo's Movie Club - Laura (1944) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		And the murder mystery, the usual noir plot complications and a slew of colorful characters aside, that is what is movie essentially is — a musing on obsession with a hypnotic effect that puts the viewer into a trance similar to that of the movie’s main protagonist.
		"Laura’s theme" is the most evocative piece of film music ever created and Laura’s portrait the most haunting of film motifs — the film’s theme, cinematography and score combine to give it a mystic quality unlike that of any other movie.
		Besides the excellent screenplay, David Raskin, the music composer, had the haunting "Laura" theme playing throughtout somehow evoking the ghost of Laura and Joseph LaShelle, the cinematographer, filmed in the best fl and white of the 1940's, that scene in the interrogation room where the light is on Tierney's face is breathtaking.
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	Movie Lords \| Reviews \| Laura (1944)
		Director Otto Preminger's slick and polished film noir, "Laura" (1944) has since become a cornerstone in American cinema.
		Yet, under its elegant facade of debutantes and high-society fashion is a world of ravenous jealousy, deceptive passions, intriguing flmail, and faux murder.
		McPherson has been assigned to investigate the murder of Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney in her best role), a handsome woman who seemingly had no enemies in life.
	www.movielords.com /laura-1944/review-1866.html (367 words)

	Going to the Movies With Vannie - Classic Movie Review: Laura (1944 B/W)
		Mcpherson stares at the portrait of Laura, a woman he has never met - [lyrics] Laura is the face in the misty light, Footsteps that you hear down the hall, The laugh that floats on a summer night That you can never quite recall.
		And you see Laura on the train that is passing through, Those eyes, how familiar they seem; She gave your very first kiss to you, that was Laura but she's only a dream.
		She has been an avid movie fan for more than 35 years and has a video library of 200 plus movies.
	www.gardenandhearth.com /Movie-Reviews/Laura.htm (554 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Laura (1944)
		With a confidence that belies his inexperience, Preminger seamlessly merges character, mood, and story, so that we, too, become captivated by Laura and her colorful friends—even as we wonder which one is a killer.
		He believes Laura is "not a detective story, but a love story in a detective milieu," and confesses the demise of his marriage inspired the movie's classic music.
		Narrator Peter Graves calls the actress "the embodiment of unattainable beauty, the image of perfection," yet a series of tragedies and failed romances caused her to become so mentally unbalanced she was forced to leave the screen in the mid-1950s and enter a sanitarium, where she would undergo a series of wrenching electroshock treatments.
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	Twin Peaks Texts
		I think they really have to tell the audience who did it at the start of the new season because it's not going to be popular with a mass audience unless they start coming up with answers.
		After all, she is in love with James, and there was that little speech she made to her mother when she was talking about Laura's murder: "It's so horrible, but I feel so happy.
		Laura's father, Leland, is also suspicious because he's so crazed now.
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		Plot: Laura begins with cop Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigating the murder of a beautiful advertising director Laura Hunt.
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		Laura (1944 movie) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Laura is a 1944 (Click link for more info and facts about film noir) film noir which tells the story of a police detective, investigating a woman's murder, who falls in love with her portrait.
		In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States (Click link for more info and facts about Library of Congress) Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the (Click link for more info and facts about National Film Registry) National Film Registry.
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		From The Movie Guide: "The sleekest of Noirs, the chicest of murders, and deliciously twisted --- the detective is a necrophilliac, two of the title character's suitor's seem gay, and the Laura that all the men are vying for is a corpse with no face.
		Indeed LAURA goes the genre one further by taking apart the conventions, then putting them back together, and diving wholeheartedly into them for the finale --- a cocktail party denouement to name the killer.
		"LAURA is a truly haunting story of obsession, with suitably poignant music provided by David Raksin (lyrics by Johnny Mercer).
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	Laura [1944]
		A tricky mystery, the film deals with the murder of a popular young woman, with whom several men seem to be involved.
		Oscars also went to the cinematography, the screenplay and supporting actor Clifton Webb, as the acidic columnist who was close to Laura.
		Laura [1944] was the product you were looking for.
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	GreenCine \| product main - Laura (1944)
		This adaptation of Vera Caspary's suspense novel was begun by director Rouben Mamoulien and cinematographer Lucien Ballard, but thanks to a complex series of backstage intrigues and hostilities, the film was ultimately credited to director Otto Preminger and cameraman Joseph LaShelle (who won an Oscar for his efforts).
		At the outset of the film, it is established that the title character, Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney), has been murdered.
		Everything clicks in Laura, from the superbly bitchy peformance of Clifton Webb (a veteran Broadway star who became an overnight movie favorite with this film) to the haunting musical score by David Raskin.
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	Appomattox Virginia, Bed and Breakfast, Spring Grove Farm, VA.
		Enjoy your favorite shows or movies on our big-screen TV with satellite reception.
		Movie posters from the 1944 movie, Laura, decorate the walls.
		You’ll find a Mies van der Rohe coffee table and chairs along with a Charles Eames lounge chair to complete the 40’s feel of the room.
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