Laura - Acting Edition

By Vera Caspary

Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious. No man could resist her charms-not even the hardboiled NYPD detective sent to find out who turned her into a faceless corpse. As this tough cop probes the mystery of Laura's death, he becomes obsessed with her strange power. Soon he realizes he's been seduced by a dead woman-or has he? "Laura" won lasting renown as an Academy Award-nominated 1944 film, the greatest noir romance of all time. Vera Caspary's equally haunting novel is remarkable for its stylish, hardboiled writing, its electrifying plot twists, and its darkly complex characters-including a woman who stands as the ultimate femme fatale.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822206463
• ISBN13: 9780822206460
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.3" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

This is the stage play, not the Novel. ISBN: 0822206463

This is excellent as far as screenplays go. See the review of the movie for more details. This play is 74 pages. If you are looking for the Novel, this is not it. The movie with Gene Tierney is well played. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated If you found the play interesting, you may want to obtain a copy of “Laura as Novel, Film, and Myth” by Eugene McNamara for more insight. Story: Waldo Lydecker, a self-centered writer, is having his lunch interrupted by a young lady, Laura Hunt, who is soliciting his e-n-d-o-r-s-e-m-e-n-t of a pen. He takes her under his wing and grooms her for corporate greatness. Later, it looks like someone has bumped off Laura. Detective Lt. Mark McPherson is assigned to the case. Somewhere in the process of investigation, he seems to have fallen in love with the dead Laura and wants to buy her portrait. Can we figure out who did it before Mark?