peterlorrefanpage - Tumblr blog

[peterlorrefanpage]

My beautiful man. Those eyes!

More Peter Lorre wearing glasses

Peter Lorre in Invisible Agent (1942)

[peterlorrefanpage]

Peter Lorre needed to be in all the things

[peterlorrefanpage]

OMG OMG OMG

This is exactly what I needed to see (and hear) at this moment.

Peter Lorre's beautiful voice curling out at that moment - and that smile!

I FOUND IT I FOUND IT

Ok so remember the Warner Brothers annual blooper reels of Breakdowns and Blow-Ups? For some reason, this tiny outtake from "The Beast with Five Fingers" was always missing from online collections. I knew it existed as an extra on one DVD or another, but I did not know which. However, thanks to "The Lost One" bio, I found another place where this was shown: a 1991 documentary called Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. Thank you, Internet Archive. I'm not sure why this one had French subtitles burned in but it's somehow funnier this way.

[peterlorrefanpage]

Oh, I like your juxtaposition!

My brain is staring at "Lewis's serious dramatic debut" and just can't get past the words into picturing how it might be.

Also, what the hell, Library of Congress, go out and get Die verschwundene Frau or dig up Schuß im Morgengrauen (which has to be somewhere, I know it does) - arrgh!

I see they're not screening that film anymore, because of Reasons.

And anyway, yes - Peter as Morgan Heywood in drag, with that absolutely beautiful contemptuous, bodes-no-good-for-anyone-in-his-path expression, is all I need of "The Patsy."

Peter Lorre in drag again, this time it’s Morgan Heywood from The Patsy, who I’m certain, having been a Broadway executive, may have indulged in once in a while. He's angry because he has to work with Jerry Lewis.

[peterlorrefanpage]

I was thinking that, too! All that traveling, all those smiles, and it all looked genuine, not just because they were exceptional actors putting on an image for a camera.

I actually put this set together because Amok Time was on TV and I happened to turn it on just as Celia's T'Pau was speaking, and it just got me going right down my borrowed memory lane, thinking of Peter and Celia together, and how much better it could have been for him - though probably not for her - if they'd stayed married. She had a right to her own life and Peter was a grown up, and yet. And yet.

Awww! What a sweet couple, they are too damn cute together. 🥰 They always looked so happy traveling around the world and making a new start in Hollywood.

[peterlorrefanpage]

Peter Lorre & Celia Lovsky

Let's have a round-up!

1929

Peter Lorre and Celia Lovsky in the Black Forest of southwestern Germany, December. (Peter proposed to Celia at Christmas that year!)

1932

Peter and Celia back in the Black Forest, on holiday.

Peter and Celia motor-boating on der Wannsee, in the southwestern Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf.

1934

Marriage time!

July 18, leaving London for Hollywood.

Peter and Celia aboard the Cunard White Star Liner Majestic bound for New York, mid-July.

I'm not sure if the above is a 1934 picture or not, but they did have to take a train again once they got off the oceanliner...

More under the cut

On the way to Hollywood in July, Peter and Celia changed trains in Chicago and took time to visit the 1933-34 World’s Fair. Peter is pretending to light his cigarette from a snowman in the Black Forest Village.

Also in July, Peter and Celia rented a house on 326 Adelaide Drive in Santa Monica. Whether or not they're really going to play badminton at that moment, that eyebrow steals the show.

But they did like to play!

1935

Peter and Celia taking a walk in the hills outside Santa Monica. His head was shaved for his role as Dr. Gogol in "Mad Love."

Peter and Celia arriving on the 20th Century.

Peter and Celia - I am not sure where they are.

Peter and Celia.

Peter and Celia, Columbia photoshoot.

The above three pics are Peter and Celia at a premiere, possibly for a Shirley Temple movie. Or something else.

Peter and Celia arriving in Southhampton, England, Nov 7.

1936

Celia, Peter, and German screenwriter and film director Berthold Viertel arrive in New York aboard the S.S. Washington, April 29, after "Secret Agent" was done filming.

Peter and Celia arriving in Hollywood.

Happy New Year

I don't know which new year it is, but it seems fitting to end this set with it:

[peterlorrefanpage]

What's a poor lil evil guy gotta do to get some RESPECT around here??

Stephen Danel but he’s wearing something different than usual

[peterlorrefanpage]

Lately my interior monologue has been starting to resemble this more and more

[peterlorrefanpage]

I would love to see this as a theatre poster for an actual showing of the movie! (Either version.)

I haven’t made a Stenberg Brothers style poster in ages, so here’s one for Narcotics, the 1932 German film with Peter Lorre starring as a bald drug dealer, that was also remade as the French Stupéfiants (with Lorre reprising the role). I used one of its alternate titles, Opium because that fit better

[peterlorrefanpage]

Haha! Oh, this could be a really fun story to write. And 🔥🔥 too, given his repressed proclivities...

But like, he had his PLAN, see, written out all nicely, but lately he's been going back to it and scribbling angry notes and there are Xs crossing things out and directional arrows, and I can't adequately do all that in text, but:

Stephen Danel's Plan for Island Domination

Buy island. ✔️

Bribe government. ✔️

Get shipments of prisoners ✔️

Give prisoners lots of things to do!!! ✔️

Marry nice lady. ✔️ ✖️✖️✖️ Lorraine is so mean to me

Be known as beneficial tyrant. nobody likes me and I don't know whyyy

Prisoners put on a skit for my birthday!! i found the singing this year to be lackluster and the skit lacking clarity and originality

Island Christmas Party is the BEST EVER, there's a waitlist from other prisoner islands to come over. 😡😡😡 nobody came i hate everyone

Make costume parties a thing. I was the only one who dressed up, fuck these guys

Stephen Danel but he’s wearing something different than usual

[peterlorrefanpage]

Peter Lorre gives great lounge

*sinks wearily into a perfumed bath to wash off all the blood*

[peterlorrefanpage]

His expression is just - I love how no matter what he's wearing, he still has that face of "Do I have to do EVERYTHING myself" because he can never quite figure out why things don't go the way he wants them to and he thinks it's because he's hired incompetent people

When really it's because his whole island idea is unsustainable, but he just won't be told

Stephen Danel but he’s wearing something different than usual

[peterlorrefanpage]

I came across this again just now and it caught me instantly. Peter Lorre's eyes, his lips, his everything - mmm.

The above pic seems to be a tilted version of what I believe is the original:

Though if you look at the shading someone did (unless THAT is the original), it makes it seem that he's looking right at us...

[peterlorrefanpage]

Hello, handsome.

Had to pull this one out from yesterday's tie post because he just looks so TOUCHABLE. That blazer or cardigan does it for me but good.

Peter Lorre - Warner Brothers promo pic by Longworth.

[peterlorrefanpage]

Chapter 26 Blackadder / Peter Lorre Crossover

I hope you enjoy this latest chapter in this saga of "Inn"!

New to the story? It features:

Edmund & other beloved characters from Blackadder II

Peter Lorre as Lord Pofferoff Adder, distantly related though no one is exactly sure how

Humor, fluff, intrigue, and romance

NSFW ahoy - explicit M/M delights!

Bawdy Elizabethan jests and copious mention of pies

Start at the beginning

Continue with Chapter 26

[peterlorrefanpage]

I am exceedingly happy to have this proof that Gruning and the General are one & the same

IT'S CANON NOW, BABY

I have a headcanon that the character Major Sigfried Gruning from Lancer Spy eventually becomes the General in the Secret Agent, mostly because Lorre plays both roles and he has a wee little wispy mustache and because I think they didn't give him enough to do in Lancer Spy, so this is payback, babey

[peterlorrefanpage]

Wonderful drawing of Peter Lorre by Schlockluster_Video, from one of the behind-the-scenes comedy stills during production of "The Beast With Five Fingers."