Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.

His early film scripts include Rope (1948) for Alfred Hitchcock followed by Anastasia (1956) Bonjour Tristesse (1958) The Way We Were (1973) and The Turning Point (1977). Army during World War II Laurents turned to writing for Broadway producing a body of work that includes West Side Story (1957) Gypsy (1959) Hallelujah Baby! (1967) and La Cage Aux Folles (1983) and directing some of his own shows and other Broadway productions. After writing scripts for radio shows after college and then training films for the U.