Exhaustively researched and objectively told, The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre looks behind-the-scenes at a multi-dimensional life triumphant and yet tragically tangled with failed possibilities.

Winner of the Rondo Award   –   "Best Book of 2005"
Finalist for the Theatre Librarian Association Award   –   2005
Nominated for CineFest's International Willy Haas Award   –   2007

Now in its second printing!



Format:  Hard-bound
Illustrations:  74, in three sections
Pages:  613, Including Appendix (Peter Lorre's Stage, Film, Radio, and Television credits), Notes, Bibliography, Interviews, and Index
ISBN:  0-8131-2360-7
Price:  $39.95

• For the first time, directors Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Frank Capra, Rouben Mamoulian and many more filmmakers open up about Lorre, the man and the actor.
  
  
• For the first time, Lorre's pivotal relationship with German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and the actor's influence on his "new style" of acting are uncovered.
  
  
• For the first time, Lorre's émigré experience is placed in the context of the exodus of artists from Nazi Germany.
  
  
• For the first time, the story of Lorre's morphine addiction   –   based on medical records, including a personal history of his dependency dictated to federal narcotics authorities   –   is told.

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Reviews:

"A first-class job of introspective writing."   –   Billy Wilder
		"It is an outstanding work: well-researched, insightfully written, a significant contribution to film biography and film history."   –   Patrick McGilligan, author of Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast (1997) and Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003).
"This is the most comprehensive, accurate biography on Lorre in his European and American context   –   nothing like it."   –   James K. Lyon, author of Bertolt Brecht in America (1980).
		"Wow! What a stunning achievement! The Lost One is, well, beyond definitive regarding the life and career of beloved actor Lorre (who died in 1964)."   –   David McDonnell, editor, Starlog Magazine; Nov. 2005.
"Perhaps the best word to describe Stephen D. Youngkin's Peter Lorre bio, 'The Lost One,' is 'exhaustive.' It's deep and detailed . . . the capstone to years of research into the actor's life, films, family and psyche."   –   Marty Baumann, The Astounding B Monster; Nov. 2005.
		"A truly remarkable achievement: a quintessential biography that gets inside the inimitable, ever-mysterious Lorre and the movie industry that couldn't get enough of him -- yet never quite figured out how to tap his peculiar genius. Riveting, heartbreaking, and endlessly illuminating, The Lost One reveals the talents and torments of an authentic motion-picture original. Youngkin deftly traces Lorre's on-screen achievements, from M and Mr. Moto, to the noir masterworks during his glory days at Warner Bros., to his sad, slow descent into addiction, chronic melancholy, and second-rate roles. Dead center throughout is Lorre himself, who is somehow sustained by his acerbic wit, his oddly heroic sensibility, and his incessant commitment to his art."   –   Thomas Schatz, author of The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era (1989).

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The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre by Stephen Youngkin   –   now in its second printing and winner of the Rondo Award for "Best Book of 2005"   –   is available in bookstores everywhere, as well as these on-line merchants.

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