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LAURA
From: The Village Voice
Date: 20050316
Author:Atkinson, Michael
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 of code-packed accidental masterpiece, Otto Preminger's Laura (1944) began at Zanuck's 20th Century Fox as trite pulp, was worked over by at least five staff screenwriters (including an uncredited Ring Lardner Jr.), attempted birth as a Rouben Mamoulian daydream, and finally emerged as an enigma wrapped in a ...
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