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Chapter 3
Peter Lorre's
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Peter Lorre:
Biographical
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Peter Lorre
FAQ
Peter Lorre
On DVD
Peter Lorre
Photos
Peter Lorre
Poster Art
Critics Are
Saying . . .
Interview
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Celia Lovsky said that Peter was "happily
unhappy" at Warner Bros. In The Maltese Falcon, Bogart put it to him another
way: "When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it." As was so often the case, Lorre's art
imitated his life. Warner Bros. may well have been a prison for a creative artist (as contract
player Geraldine Fitzgerald put it), but it kept Lorre in the public eye and paid him, if not
handsomely then at least reasonably, for his effort.
On top of that, it paired him with two
actors he described as truly great: Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet. Ironically,
Lorre's highest paid compliment to Bogart often applied to his own work as an actor -- "If
you can cover a person that you play so well you become that person, then you must be a
very great actor, because Bogie, inside, he wasn't a tough man, he was a very soft-hearted,
nice man."
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The Maltese Falcon -- Warner Bros., 1941, directed by
John Huston, with Peter Lorre as "Joel Cairo", one of many in search of the
fabulous gem-encrusted golden Falcon statuette.
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A Mexican lobby card advertising El Halcon Maltes (1941),
which translates as The Maltese Hawk.
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The Boogie Man Will Get You -- Columbia, 1942, directed by
Lew Landers, with Peter Lorre as "Dr. Lorentz", justice of the peace, mayor,
coronor, loan officer, insurance salesman, and notary public -- not to mention
sheriff -- in the small town of Jenksville.
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An American one-sheet poster advertising the original release of
The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942).
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Passage to Marseille -- Warner Bros., 1944, directed by
Michael Curtiz, with Peter Lorre as "Marius", the best safecracker in Paris, a
virtuoso among the pickpockets, and a patriot of la France.
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A poster for the Mexican release of Pasaje Para Marsella (1944)
or Passage For Marseille. While most foreign artwork shows the cast
apparently dressed for Casablanca (Warner Bros., 1942) -- notably Peter
Lorre in a white dinner jacket and black bowtie -- their costumes are correct in
this poster.
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A Mexican lobby card for Marsella (Marseille, 1944).
The ad-lines read, "Men without mother country in a world in flames. In a dramatic
odyssey by forests and seas, they fight for freedom like those who have lost it.
They live their most dangerous adventure and they discover their most charming
idyll."
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An American lobby card for the 1956 re-release of Passage to
Marseille, with Helmut Dantine and Peter Lorre in the jungle prison camp in
French Guiana.
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Arsenic and Old Lace -- Warner Bros., 1944, directed by
Frank Capra, with Peter Lorre as "Dr. Einstein", personal plastic surgeon to an
international serial killer.
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A lobby card advertising the original American release of
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), with Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre
drinking a toast to "[Massey's] dear, dead brother", the bound and gagged Cary
Grant. Courtesy of Mike Hawks.
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Except where noted, all images are from the collection of Stephen Youngkin.
For a larger view, click on the thumbnail. A new window will open.
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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.
The Films of Peter Lorre
(1982), also by Youngkin, is out of print, but copies may be
purchased through Amazon and Barnes & Noble below. Interested in Lorre's radio and
television performances? Check out Radio Showcase and Movies Unlimited. Netflix has
Lorre movies for rent.
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