---
name: "Arthur Laurents"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/arthur-laurents"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "14 July 1917"
died: "5 May 2011"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-20T08:19:55.266800+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Arthur Laurents

Writer. Born 14 July 1917 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 5 May 2011.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 14 July 1917, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 5 May 2011
- **Active:** 1961–2021
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 80 (1), 1970s 70 (1), 2020s 79 (1)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 3, Crime 2
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $120m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Laurents, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q710334, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491306/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17665

## Coming up

- *National Theatre Live: West Side Story* (2028-01-01), Book

## Biography

Arthur Laurents (1917–2011) was an American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director and film producer. Born in New York City, he began writing radio scripts after college and served in the US Army during the Second World War, where he wrote training films.

Laurents achieved success on Broadway with the books for *West Side Story* (1957) and *Gypsy* (1959). His screenwriting credits include *Rope* (1948), *Anastasia* (1956), *Bonjour Tristesse* (1958) and *The Way We Were* (1973). He wrote and produced the 1977 film *The Turning Point*, for which he received Writers Guild of America and Academy Award nominations.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, contribute.imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *West Side Story* (2021), Fi1m 79, Theatre Play — [page](https://film.one/film/west-side-story-2021.md)
- *The Turning Point* (1977), Fi1m 70, Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-turning-point.md)
- *West Side Story* (1961), Fi1m 80, Book — [page](https://film.one/film/west-side-story.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *National Theatre Live: West Side Story* (2028), Book
- *West Side Story* (2025), Theatre Play, Writer
- *West Side Story* (2021), Theatre Play — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/west-side-story-2021.md)
- *Gypsy* (2015), Musical, Writer
- *Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall* (1995), Writer
- *Gypsy* (1994), Theatre Play, Writer
- *Gypsy: Live from the Southern Arizona Light Opera Company* (1992), Writer, Theatre Play
- *The Turning Point* (1977), Writer, Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-turning-point.md)
- *The Way We Were* (1973), Writer
- *Gypsy* (1962), Theatre Play
- *West Side Story* (1961), Book — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/west-side-story.md)
- *Bonjour Tristesse* (1958), Screenplay
- *Anastasia* (1956), Screenplay
- *Summertime* (1955), Theatre Play
- *Anna Lucasta* (1949), Writer
- *Home of the Brave* (1949), Writer
- *Caught* (1949), Screenplay
- *Rope* (1948), Screenplay
- *Rope*, Original Film Writer

## Gallery

- ![Title: [Arthur Laurents, director La Cage aux Folles] Creator(s): Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer Date Created/Published: [1983] Medium: 1 photograph : color tra](https://film.one/media/person/1240605/gallery-6a01c6746e8a.jpg) Title: [Arthur Laurents, director La Cage aux Folles] Creator(s): Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer Date Created/Published: [1983] Medium: 1 photograph : color tra — Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Arthur_Laurents%2C_director_La_Cage_aux_Folles.jpg/1280px-Arthur_Laurents%2C_director_La_Cage_aux_Folles.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Arthur Laurents](https://film.one/media/person/1240605/gallery-4dc249abb75e.jpg) Arthur Laurents — kassyny, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Arthur_laurents.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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