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West Side Story playwright dies
May 6, 2011, 20:13 GMT
New York - Playwright Arthur Laurent, who wrote some of the greatest hits in the history of Broadway including West Side Story, has died in his Manhattan home at the age of 93.
Laurents died Thursday following complications of pneumonia, The New York Times reported.
In addition to West Side Story in 1957, Laurent's other notable achievements included the 1959 Broadway musical Gypsy and the screenplay for the romantic movie The Way We Were, starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, which was adapted from his novel of the same name.
He also wrote the screenplay for the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Rope as well as for Anastasia, for which Ingrid Bergmann won an Oscar in 1956.
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