The bombastic Austrian-born film director and producer Otto Preminger (1906-1986) had a long Hollywood career making movies that defied conventions of the time. Nicknamed "Otto the Terrible" for his legendary tantrums on Hollywood sets, Otto Preminger ca...

Laura (1944) is a classic film noir that critic Pauline Kael calls "Everybody's favorite murder mystery." Featuring a superb ensemble cast—Gene Tierney as the mysteriously disappeared Laura; Dana Andrews as investigating...

Laura is an American film noir released in 1944. It was directed by Otto Preminger and stars Gene Tierney as Laura, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. The movie was based on Vera Caspary's Laura, a popular 1943 detective...

LAURA Fox Accidental Hollywood masterpiece star of new noir set In its factory formation belle epoque, Hollywood was infrequently blessed by calamitous serendipity-sometimes, production debacles that should've crashed at takeoff ended up flying high. Second only to Casablanca as a kind...

Laura Morris joined Secker and Warburg in 1972, where she edited cinema-related books for fifteen years. In 1987 she moved to Andre Deutsch and continued to publish works such as The Bfi Companion to the Western and Elia Kazan's A Life. In 1993 she...

Laura Diaz shot a 2-under 70 Friday to take a one-stroke lead halfway through the Scandinavian TPC, while tournament host Annika Sorenstam soared to a 75 and was seven shots back.Diaz had a 36-hole total of 5-under 139 on the Barseback course in southern Sweden,...

A prominent Washington hairdresser who used to cut first lady Laura Bush's hair was accused Thursday of sexually harassing a former employee _ the second such lawsuit filed against him since September.The former employee of Andre Chreky said Chreky routinely demanded sexual favors, grabbed and...