Laura

Laura (1968)

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.

Date of release
1968-01-24
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (3)
Runtime
44m
Genres
TV Movie, Drama, Mystery
Director
John Llewellyn Moxey

Casting

Interesting facts

Laura is a 1968 American TV film, a remake of the 1944 film of the same name. It was directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and written by Truman Capote and Thomas Phipps. David Susskind produced.

Production

Truman Capote was friends with Lee Radziwill who wanted to act and had made her stage debut in a revival of The Philadelphia Story. He met up with David Susskind and told him, "Lee Radiziwill is going to be an actress and I think we should all put something together for her. I'm sure that she'll be so good I'll write it for her myself."

Susskind thought Radziwill "wasn't very good" in her stage performance "but I thought maybe I saw a glimmer of something in her performance. The television companies had noticed the publicity, so it looked like we could set something up."

Capote wrote an adaptation of The Voice of the Turtle for her but Susskind worried it would be too difficult. So he suggested they do Laura.

Michael Dyne reportedly rewrote Capote's script.

The show was taped in London in October 1967. Robert Stack and George Sanders reprised roles they had performed on TV in the 1955 version. Stack recalled in his memoirs that "the production resembled a junior high school effort."

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