Laura (1944 movie)

. The score by Jerome Kern and lyricist Dorothy Fields includes the songs "Pick Yourself Up", "A Fine Romance" and the Oscar-winning "The Way You Look Tonight". I, Waldo Lydecker, was the only one who really knew her.". Astaire and Rogers play a professional dancer and a dance instructor who fall in love. For Laura's horrible death, I was alone. Swing Time is a 1936 musical film directed by George Stevens, the sixth featuring the pair-up of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. I felt as if I were the only human being left in New York.

It was the hottest Sunday in my recollection. A silver sun burned through the sky like a huge magnifying glass. "I shall never forget the weekend Laura died. Quote for the movie:.

Through flashbacks McPherson comes to know Laura (Gene Tierney), and slowly falls in love with her portrait image. McPherson also questions Laura's fiancé, Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price); her wealthy aunt, Ann Treadwell (Judith Anderson); and Laura's loyal housekeeper, Bessie Clary (Dorothy Adams). McPherson interviews newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb), who relates how he fell under Laura's spell and used his influence and fame to advance her career. Plot: Laura begins with cop Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigating the murder of a beautiful advertising director Laura Hunt.

In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The score, notable for its haunting title theme (which has since become a jazz standard recorded over 400 times), was written by David Raksin. It won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Clifton Webb), Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White, Best Director (Otto Preminger) and Best Writing, Screenplay. It was directed by Rouben Mamoulian (uncredited) and Otto Preminger.

(uncredited). Adapted from Vera Caspary's novel by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth Reinhardt and Ring Lardner Jr. It stars Gene Tierney as Laura, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. 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.