Laura’s life and career were brief but memorable. She started out as a screenwriter with her first production being a made-for-TV movie called Rage in 1983. She then teamed up with actor/filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. and Al Schwartz to pen the script for the screwball comedy Too Much Sun (1990). Laura’s only acting role would also be in this movie, where she would get to roll around with Monty Python alum Eric Idle while showing off her cleavage in a black bra. She and Downey would marry the following year (making her Robert Downey Jr.'s stepmom) but their wedded bliss would be short-lived as Laura passed away from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 1994 at age thirty-six. Her final film as a writer, Hugo Pool, would come out three years after her death, meanwhile we continue to mourn what could have been if Laura had gotten more chances to strip down on screen.
