Peter Lorre

Author : Sarah Thomas
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857454420
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peter Lorre: Face Maker written by Sarah Thomas and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Lorre described himself as merely a 'face maker'. His own negative attitude also characterizes traditional perspectives which position Lorre as a tragic figure within film history: the promising European artist reduced to a Hollywood gimmick, unable to escape the murderous image of his role in Fritz Lang's M. This book shows that the life of Peter Lorre cannot be reduced to a series of simplistic oppositions. It reveals that, despite the limitations of his macabre star image, Lorre's screen performances were highly ambitious, and the terms of his employment were rarely restrictive. Lorre's career was a complex negotiation between transnational identity, Hollywood filmmaking practices, the ownership of star images and the mechanics of screen performance.

Author : Stephen D. Youngkin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813123608
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost One written by Stephen D. Youngkin and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full biography of this major actor draws upon more than 300 interviews, including conversations with directors Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Frank Capra, and Rouben Mamoulian, who speak candidly about Lorre, both the man and the actor.

Author : Stephen D. Youngkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Films of Peter Lorre written by Stephen D. Youngkin and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Hahn
Publisher : BearManor Media
ISBN 13 : 9781629334608
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Animated Peter Lorre (hardback) written by Matthew Hahn and published by BearManor Media. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are all known instances of the animated Peter Lorre in theatrical cartoons, TV shows, commercials, video games, and more, including abandoned projects, coincidences, connections, and apocrypha. Illustrated. Includes index, notes, and bibliography.

Author : Stephen D. Youngkin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813137004
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost One written by Stephen D. Youngkin and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor, trademarking his screen performances with a delicately strung balance between good and evil. His portrayal of the child murderer in Fritz Lang's masterpiece M (1931) catapulted him to international fame. Lang said of Lorre: "He gave one of the best performances in film history and certainly the best in his life." Today, the Hungarian-born actor is also recognized for his riveting performances in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and Casablanca (1942). Lorre arrived in America in 1934 expecting to shed his screen image as a villain. He even tried to lose his signature accent, but Hollywood repeatedly cast him as an outsider who hinted at things better left unknown. Seeking greater control over his career, Lorre established his own production company. His unofficial "graylisting" by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, however, left him with little work. He returned to Germany, where he co-authored, directed, and starred in the film Der Verlorene (The Lost One) in 1951. German audiences rejected Lorre's dark vision of their recent past, and the actor returned to America, wearily accepting roles that parodied his sinister movie personality.The first biography of this major actor, The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre draws upon more than three hundred interviews, including conversations with directors Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Frank Capra, and Rouben Mamoulian, who speak candidly about Lorre, both the man and the actor. Author Stephen D. Youngkin examines for the first time Lorre's pivotal relationship with German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, his experience as an émigré from Hitler's Germany, his battle with drug addiction, and his struggle with the choice between celebrity and intellectual respectability.Separating the enigmatic person from the persona long associated with one of classic Hollywood's most recognizable faces, The Lost One is the definitive account of a life triumphant and yet tragically riddled with many failed possibilities.

Author : Claudia Sandberg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800730926
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peter Lilienthal written by Claudia Sandberg and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his 1979 film David, Peter Lilienthal was an unusual figure within postwar filmmaking circles. A child refugee from Nazi Germany who grew up in Uruguay, he was uniquely situated at the crossroads of German, Jewish, and Latin American cultures: while his work emerged from West German auteur filmmaking, his films bore the unmistakable imprints of Jewish thought and the militant character of New Latin American cinema. Peter Lilienthal is the first comprehensive study of Lilienthal’s life and career, highlighting the distinctively cross-cultural and transnational dimensions of his oeuvre, and exploring his role as an early exemplar of a more vibrant, inclusive European film culture.

Author : Karie Bible
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764349645
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Celebrates the Holidays written by Karie Bible and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marvelously illustrated with more than 200 rare images from the silent era through the 1970s, this joyous treasure trove features film and television's most famous actors and actresses celebrating the holidays, big and small, in lavishly produced photographs. Join the stars for festive fun in celebrating a variety of holidays, from New Year's to Saint Patrick's Day to Christmas and everything in between. Legends such as Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, and Audrey Hepburn spread holiday cheer throughout the calendar year in iconic, ironic, and illustrious style. These images, taken by legendary stills photographers, hearken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood, when motion picture studios devised elaborate publicity campaigns to promote their stars and to keep their names and faces in front of the movie-going public all year round.

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maltese Falcon written by Dashiell Hammett and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fragrant Miss Wonderley hires Sam Spade, a private detective, to track down her sister, who has eloped with an immoral man called Floyd Thursby. But trouble finds Spade when his partner Miles Archer gets shot while on Thursby's trail. "The Maltese Falcon" is a classic mystery novel that shaped how writers told detective stories.

Author : Anne Sharp
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469102587
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Peter Lorre Companion written by Anne Sharp and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-09-22 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this darkly comic novel set in suburban Detroit during the Ford Pinto/Ted Nugent era, a Catholic high school girl gets lessons in love from a dead Viennese star of film noir and her precociously sexy best friend.

Author : Greg Laurie
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1946891061
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steve McQueen written by Greg Laurie and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Greg Laurie as he takes a cross-country drive in his 1968 Highland Green Ford Mustang 390 GT through the canyons of Malibu, the alleys of Hollywood, the wide and open roads of the Midwest, the streets of New York, as he traces the wooly geography of actor Steve McQueen’s life, relationships, career and spiritual journey. This iconic muscle car was the vehicle McQueen drove in his most raucous and enduring film, Bullitt. In the 1960s, McQueen was, according to box office receipts, the biggest movie star of his generation and one of the coolest men to ever walk the planet. Greg Laurie was a teen at the time and an ardent fan of “The King of Cool,” first mesmerized by McQueen in 1963’s The Great Escape. Like millions of cinema fans, Greg developed a lifelong fascination with the actor. Now he has a chance to tell McQueen’s story. McQueen was a complex, contradictory man who lived the same way he drove his motorcycles and cars: fearlessly, ruthlessly and at top speed. After a lifetime of fast cars, women and drugs, McQueen took a surprising detour. In this book, Laurie thoughtfully interviews members of Steve McQueen’s family, friends, co-stars, associates, widow and pastor to tell of the dramatic life-change for the actor in the spring of 1979 – six months before McQueen was diagnosed with terminal cancer. What were the critical steps that led McQueen to make such a life-altering decision? Perhaps more importantly, why is that part of his story so rarely told? This book answers these questions. Greg Laurie will follow the seeds of Christianity that were sown throughout McQueen’s improbable life where a Light finally shone into the darkness of his troubled life. These seeds miraculously germinated, allowing McQueen to see that redemption through Jesus Christ is a lasting truth more glittering and real than any magic of the entertainment industry.