The Eerie One
Bee Wilson: Peter Lorre, 23 March 2006
The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre
by Stephen Youngkin.
Kentucky, 613 pp., $39.95, September 2005,0 8131 2360 7 Show More
by Stephen Youngkin.
Kentucky, 613 pp., $39.95, September 2005,
“... what he called the ‘latrine’ of Hollywood, Lorre’s place in the theatre world was eccentric. Stephen Youngkin’s reverent and scholarly new biography shows that the recurring themes of Lorre’s acting life were already set before he fled to Paris from Vienna in 1933: his distinctive mixture of comedy and creepiness, his struggle to avoid being ... ”