Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vera Louise Caspary (November 13, 1899 – June 13, 1987) was an American writer of novels, plays, screenplays, and short stories. Her best-known novel, Laura, was made into a highly successful movie. Though she claimed she was not a "real" mystery writer, her novels effectively merged women's quest for identity and love with murder plots. Independence is the key to her protagonists, with her novels revolving around women who are menaced, but who turn out to ...
Complete Filmography

A Letter to Three Wives
1985
Adaptation
Three women are going on a trip that leaves them incommunicado with the rest of the world, but before they leave, a woman who either has a history or ...

Laura
1968
Novel
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.

Laura
1962
Novel
The detective investigating Laura Hunt's murder finds himself becoming obsessed with the dead woman only to find out she's actually still alive.

Bachelor in Paradise
1961
Story
A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unofficial relationship advisor to unhappy local housewiv...

Les Girls
1957
Story
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Ange...

Laura
1955
Novel
A detective is assigned to a case of murder. During the investigation he finds himself taking a more than professional interest in the victim, the mys...

Give a Girl a Break
1953
Story
When the temperamental star of a new Broadway musical revue in rehearsals walks out, director and choreographer Ted Sturgis suggests casting an unknow...

The Blue Gardenia
1953
Story
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the ...

Three Husbands
1950
Story, Screenplay
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of...

A Letter to Three Wives
1949
Adaptation
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she doe...

Out of the Blue
1947
Story, Screenplay
Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian ...

Bedelia
1946
Novel, Screenplay
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begin...

Claudia and David
1946
Adaptation
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Conne...

Laura
1944
Novel
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Lady Bodyguard
1943
Story
A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture a...

Lady from Louisiana
1941
Screenplay
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mir...
Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
1940
Story
In this musical, a con man makes a good living by promoting bogus charity shows. He gets the communities all revved up and then skips town with all th...

Service de Luxe
1938
Writer
Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to wealthy customers, but what she's really looking for i...

Scandal Street
1938
Story
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the smal...

Easy Living
1937
Story
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out ...

I'll Love You Always
1935
Screenplay
Nora Clegg, an actress, marries Carl Brent, an unemployed young engineer, whose estimation of his worth and ability keeps him from getting a job. He f...

Such Women Are Dangerous
1934
Writer, Story
An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly threatene...

Private Scandal
1934
Writer
"Private Scandal" is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Vera Caspary, Garrett Fort and Bruce Manning. The fi...

The Night of June 13
1932
Original Story
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudi...

Working Girls
1931
Theatre Play
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in N...