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Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor who trademarked his screen performances with a delicately strung balance between good and evil. His portrayal of the grisly 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). The first full 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 emigre 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 work of a life triumphant and yet tragically tangled with so many failed possibilities.

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About the Author :
Stephen D. Youngkin is the coauthor of The Films of Peter Lorre and appeared as an expert biographer on A&E's Biography tribute to Peter Lorre. He lives in Arizona.

Review :
"[The book] is one of the finest biographies of an actor ever written, on a par with Patricia Bosworth's Montgomery Clift and Charles Winecoff's Split Image: The Life of Andy Perkins." -- Herbert Shadrack, www.cinemaretro.com "A good book on an important film figure [who] certainly deserves this exhaustive look at his life andcareer." -- Great Old Movies "As the very first biography of Lorre, The Lost One does not disappoint.... A welcome revelation indeed." -- MovieMaker "The colossal assemblage of research has been whipped into a compelling biographical narrative." -- Filmmonthly "Winner of the 2005 Rondo Hatton Award" -- Winner of the Best Book of 2005 in the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards "You couldn't ask for a better book about Lorre. It will become the single most important book about Lorre's life and career, without question." -- Washington Post Book World "Youngkin gets behind the image to incise a definitive portrait, and Lorre becomes a likeness we can like in-depth." -- Choice "Youngkin makes a strong case for Lorre as one of cinema's most underrated actors, exploring in detail his early stage work in Europe, his largely forgotten performances in radio and television, and of course his role as the child murderer in Fritz Lang's classic crime film M, which would forever define Lorre as a celluloid bogeyman." -- Florida Newspaper "Youngkin peels back the layers of Lorre's life to reveal a fascinating, nuanced individual who struggled with intellectual issues in the midst of glamour and fame." -- Library Journal (starred review) "Youngkin's life of Lorre is a monumental piece of research and sheds new light on a career that has too long been ignored and undervalued." -- San Diego Union-Tribune "Youngkin's massively researched opus, drawing on over 300 interviews he conducted, lives up to the task of conveying Lorre's personal tragedy.... Readably written, spiced up with occasionally very amusing anecdotes, acerbic asides and insightful conclusions." -- Cineaste "Finalist for the 2005 Theater Library Association Award." --


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  • ISBN-13: 9780813123608
  • Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
  • Publisher Imprint: The University Press of Kentucky
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 680
  • Sub Title: A Life of Peter Lorre
  • ISBN-10: 0813123607
  • Publisher Date: 30 Sep 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 156 mm


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