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Born Arthur Levine, Laurents was the son of middle-class Jewish parents, his father a lawyer and his mother a schoolteacher, who gave up her career when she married. He was born and raised in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, New York, the elder of two children, and attended Erasmus Hall High School.
- Arthur Levine, July 14, 1917, New York City, U.S.
- English
- May 5, 2011 (aged 93), New York City, U.S.
- Quogue, New York
May 6, 2011 · His father, the son of Orthodox Jews, was a lawyer, and his mother, also Jewish, but raised Atheist, was, in her son's words, an energetic blonde "with very good legs."
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May 10, 2011 · Here are memories from several. Stephen Sondheim, left, and Arthur Laurents at “Gypsy” in 2008. Jamie McCarthy/WireImage, via Getty. STEPHEN SONDHEIM, Composer and Lyricist I remember Arthur ...
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Mar 16, 2009 · Laurents, a native of Brooklyn’s Flatbush area, is a lifelong product of tension and dissent: His father’s parents were Orthodox Jews, while his mother’s Jewish forebears claimed to be atheists.
May 6, 2011 · The playwright and director Arthur Laurents in 2007. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times. Mr. Laurents, who died at 93 on Thursday, also supplied the book for the landmark musical “West Side Story ...
The son of a lawyer, Laurents was born Arthur Levine in Brooklyn in 1918, and educated at Cornell University where, as a summary of his autobiography put it, he "learned to write plays, learned...
Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents (below ladder), Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert (on ladder) during rehearsal for the stage production West Side Story (1957) by Friedman-Abeles The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Bernstein and Robbins both admired Arthur Laurents's 1946 play Home of the Brave about a Jewish soldier in World War II ...
