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Article: The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2006
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The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre by Stephen D. Youngkin. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. 613 pp, illus. Hardcover: $39.95.
"This man was the most identifiable actor I ever knew," said Vincent Price in his moving eulogy for Peter Lorre, not the only thing reprinted in full in Stephen D. Youngkin's exhaustive tome, a decades-in-the-making and long-overdue biography of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating and fondly remembered--yet at the same time quietly tragic--screen icons. Lorre's unique gifts and unorthodox looks both contributed to this identifiable status, adding up to a memorable screen persona that has outlived (if often in ...
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... ... ENTERTAINMENT STORY SLUGGED: KIRKDOUGLAS KRT PHOTOGRAPH VIA PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER (April 9) Kirk Douglas, left, and Peter Lorre star in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." They portray explorers who take their first undersea dive aboard the submarine ...
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