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Jay Dratler

1911 – 1968 · New York City, New York, USA · Active 1940–1964

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jay Dratler (September 14, 1910- September 25, 1968) was an American screenwriter and novelist. Born in New York City, his mother was from Austria. After attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the late 1920s, he studied at the Sorbonne in France and the University of Vienna, becoming fluent in French and German. He returned to the United States in 1932. Cashing in on his exceptional language skills on his return to the United States, he was employed as an editor by a New York publisher and translated the books Goya and Zeppelin fro...

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Laura

Laura

1944 ★ 7.7
Writer

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

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Filmography

27 credits
Crew Credits
1960s 3 credits
1964
TV ★ 8.0
1963
TV ★ 6.0
1960
Movie ★ 5.7
1950s 4 credits
1952
Movie ★ 5.9
1952
Movie ★ 5.9
1940s 20 credits
1949
Impact Story
Movie ★ 6.0
1949
Impact Writer
Movie ★ 6.0
1949
Dancing in the Dark Additional Dialogue
Movie ★ 5.0
1948
Pitfall Novel
Movie ★ 6.8
1948
Movie ★ 6.7
1948
Movie ★ 6.5
1946
Movie ★ 6.6
1945
Movie ★ 5.7
1944
Laura Screenplay
Movie ★ 7.6
1943
Movie ★ 6.0
1942
Movie ★ 6.4
1942
Movie ★ 4.0
1942
Movie ★ 4.5
1941
Movie ★ 6.1
1941
Movie ★ 6.3
1941
Movie ★ 6.3
1941
Movie ★ 5.0
1941
Movie ★ 5.0
1940
Girls Under 21 Screenplay
Movie ★ 4.0
1940
Movie ★ 7.5