Word: laura
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Laura directed by Otto Preminger at the Coolidge Corner Theater February...
Lovers and lovers of love alike should fall to their knees before the Coolidge Corner Theater's management. The Theater's screening of "Laura" on Valentine's Day performs a double service. Those in love will find ecstatic inspiration, and those loveless unfortunates will leave the theater condemned to pine for Gene Tierney for eternity. Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, Otto Preminger's classic film noir is the quintessential love story...
...first scene, Detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) of the New York Police Department is investigating the murder of Laura, the woman in the portrait. McPherson rounds up a delicious list of suspects. There is Laura's fiance Shelby, a Southern gigolo played by a very young and dapper Vincent Price. There is also Laura's aunt, who is having an affair with Shelby. And lastly, there's Waldo Lydeker (Clifton Webb), an acid-tongued newspaper columnist whose pen, in his own words, is dipped in poison...
...investigation force McPherson to spend a great deal of time in Laura's apartment, prying into every aspect of her life. He peruses her letters and reads her diary. He goes through her clothes and smells her perfume. He drinks her Scotch while staring at her portrait in the living room. Hard-boiled detective Mark McPherson has fallen in love with a dead woman...
...what has got to be one of cinema's most striking scenes, Laura comes back to life. Well, sort of. Mark had fallen asleep staring at Laura's portrait, and wakes up to find Laura entering the apartment. The look on his face is one of absolutely sublime confusion. Andrews' face registers shock, amazement, and hesitant bliss' he isn't sure whether he is dreaming, or whether Laura has indeed risen from the dead...