The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre.(Book review)

Cineaste | June 22, 2006| | Copyright

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 ...

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