Peter Lorre News

ChartoftheDay.com had an update of their chart labeled "Depression-Era Bear Market Rallies " which is interesting in many, many ways, starting with the fact that it only concerns one particular three-year span, which implies that thereafter there were no more bear market rallies of note, which is pretty much right, as everything economic continued ...

Body & Soul Say what you will about Body & Soul being sponsored by the "real beauty" hucksters at Dove - it's unlikely that director Judith Thompson could have assembled her disparate group of performers without the power of her sponsor's mass-market reach.

Self-Styled Siren pays tribute to one of classic Hollywood's greatest odd couples , Sydney Greenstreet, he of the Edmund Wilson helium-filled, patrician girth, and Peter Lorre.

Mort Abrahams, a producer for the "Route 66" television show during the 1960s, died of natural causes at age 93 at his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif., reported the Hollywood Reporter .

Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's 20th Century * Spoleto Festival USA * $32 * 1 hour 40 mins.

Jack Terricloth specializes in absorbing entertainments. The lead vocalist's famed World/Inferno Friendship Society punk group brings its multi-media spectacle "Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's 20th Century" to the Emmett Robinson Theatre for a five-day Spoleto Festival run beginning tonight.

It's ironic that Peter Lorre turned down offers to play Hamlet. He feared career suicide, being typecast as the deranged dark prince.

For the week of Sunday, May 3, through Saturday, May 9. Reviewed by Tony Lucia. Crime and Punishment .

She's not Bert, Eddie or Rove, which makes Gretel Killeen's Logies turn something special.

According to Hollywood legend, famed studio head Jack Warner hated smoking in his movies so much that in 1941 he sent out a memo declaring that the practice should be kept to a minimum in all Warner Bros.

Andy Hardy finds love, larceny...and murder? Stuck with the inevitable end to his onscreen childhood, Mickey Rooney returned to the movies after World War II with a few darker efforts.

Rich and Strange , 1931, b&w. Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann, Elsie Randolph.

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Shadow of a Doubt : Fritz Lang's M featured a cinema first: a psychopath who was borderline sympathetic.

Dashiell Hammett's novel "The Maltese Falcon" on the silver screen. What a cast: Effie Perrine [Lee Patrick], Joel Cairo [Peter Lorre], Kasper Gutman [Sydney Greenstreet], Miss Ruth Wonderly [Mary Astor], Sam ...

This wasn't the column I started to write this week, but the constraints of time and other external forces play havoc with the best laid plans of mice and Ken.

March 2 Sign-up starts for our Book Lovers' Club, a reading program for adults. Library cardholders 19 and older can sign up for a chance to win one of our great prizes just by reading books.

By fits and starts I have come to realize that Iran is inexorably filling the vacuum of the defunct Ottoman Empire in the Middle East.

WHAT DO YOU get when you combine punk rock,Vaudeville cabaret, modern technology and a greatly misunderstood character actor from America's golden age of film? Everyone agrees:You get a bad idea.

With the end of the year comes the flowering of the cinematic arts . So it's fitting that some of the biggest specials on TV this week also concern film.