Vera Caspary

1899-11-13 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. 25 Credits

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 ...

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A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives

1985

Adaptation

2.0

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

Laura

1968

Novel

4.5

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

Laura

Laura

1962

Novel

6.0

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

Bachelor in Paradise

1961

Story

6.5
Writing

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

Les Girls

1957

Story

6.4
Writing

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

Laura

1955

Novel

10.0

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

Give a Girl a Break

1953

Story

5.3
Writing

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

The Blue Gardenia

1953

Story

6.6
Writing

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

Three Husbands

1950

Story, Screenplay

5.0
Writing

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

A Letter to Three Wives

1949

Adaptation

7.2

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

Out of the Blue

1947

Story, Screenplay

6.3
Writing

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

Bedelia

1946

Novel, Screenplay

5.2
Writing

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

Claudia and David

1946

Adaptation

6.0

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

Laura

1944

Novel

7.6

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

Lady Bodyguard

Lady Bodyguard

1943

Story

4.0
Writing

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

Lady from Louisiana

1941

Screenplay

5.3
Writing

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

Writing

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

Service de Luxe

1938

Writer

6.5
Writing

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

Scandal Street

1938

Story

Writing

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

Easy Living

1937

Story

7.0
Writing

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

I'll Love You Always

1935

Screenplay

3.0
Writing

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

Such Women Are Dangerous

1934

Writer, Story

Writing

An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly threatene...

Private Scandal

Private Scandal

1934

Writer

Writing

"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

The Night of June 13

1932

Original Story

7.0
Writing

Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudi...

Working Girls

Working Girls

1931

Theatre Play

6.8

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...