Laura

'Laura' is a 1944 noir film about a police detective who falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating. As he delves deeper into the case, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of betrayal and obsession.

• Otto Preminger initially was not chosen to direct the movie.
• The film was based on a novel by Vera Caspary.
• It won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
• The movie was selected for preservation by the U.S. National Film Registry.
• Gene Tierney was pregnant while filming 'Laura'.

• 'I shall never forget the weekend Laura died.'
• 'A woman brought you up. Never forget it.'
• 'I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.'
• 'You better watch out, McPherson, or you'll finish up in a psychiatric ward. I doubt they've ever had a patient who fell in love with a corpse.'
• 'Have you ever been in love?' - 'A doll in Washington Heights once got a fox fur out of me.'