Peter Lorre on TV in November and December, 2014

In the final months of 2014, Peter Lorre fans have many movies to look forward to on television and Turner Classic Movies.

All times shown are Eastern Standard.

Peter Lorre's page on the TV Guide Channel website lists the Lorre films scheduled on various television channels over a 2-week period.

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November, 2014
The highlight of November is the "There's No Place Like Hollywood" auction at Bonham's in New York City, featuring a number of famous props from Casablanca (1942) – including the letters of transit Ugarte (Peter Lorre) plans to sell to freedom-fighter Victor Lazlo (Paul Henreid) and the piano in Rick's Cafe Americain where Rick (Humphrey Bogart) hides the documents Ugarte leaves with Rick for safekeeping until his clients arrive.

Nov. 4 (Tues), 11 pm, Turner Classic Movies channel – My Favorite Brunette (1947). An evening of Bob Hope movies includes Hope as a baby photographer who dreams of being a hard-boiled detective like his neighbor Sam McCloud (Alan Ladd). Published in November is Richard Zoglin's book Hope: Entertainer of the Century (Nov. 4, 2014).

Nov. 8 (Sat), 8:15 am, TCM – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Nov. 18 (Tues), 6 am, MGM channel – The Raven (1963).

Nov. 18 (Tues), 8 pm, TCM – Casablanca (1942). A salute to Bonham's upcoming auction of movie props and costumes begins with Casablanca. Joining Robert Osborne in introducing the movie will be Dr. Gary Milan, current owner of the letters of transit and Sam's piano, two of the many items featured in the auction. Dr. Milan is also the former owner of the Maltese Falcon prop statuette, consigned in the November 2013 Hollywood auction at Bonham's.

Nov. 19 (Wed), 2:15 am, MGM channel – The Comedy of Terrors (1964).

Nov. 22 (Sat), 8:15 am, Encore Classic channel – The Patsy (1964).

Nov. 29 (Sat), 4:50 am, Encore Classic channel – The Patsy (1964).

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December, 2014
December brings a variety of Lorre movies – horror, comedy, adventure.

Dec. 13 (Sat), 4:15 am, TCM – The Beast With Five Fingers (1946). One of Peter's final movies at Warner Bros. was a horror movie about a murderous severed hand on the loose in an isolated Italian villa.

Dec. 16 (Tues), 2:15 pm, TCM – The Constant Nymph (1943). "May / December Romance" is the daytime theme, as Joan Fontaine romances the older Charles Boyer – and Peter Lorre romances Brenda Marshall.

Dec. 30 (Tues), 8:30 am, TCM – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). Cary Grant is the December "Star of the Month" on the Turner Classic Movies channel, including this comedy classic as theater critic Grant discovers his two charming aunts have been carrying out mercy killings in their Brooklyn mansion – and burying their victims in the cellar.

Dec. 31 (Wed), 2:15 pm, TCM – Around the World in 80 Days (1956). "Jules Verne Journeys" is the daytime theme and includes this all-star extravaganza as star David Niven travels around the Victorian world to win a bet. Ring out the old year with Peter as a Japanese steward – and a sword-wielding samurai warrior in the movie’s animated closing credits.

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Many of these and other Lorre movies are now available on DVD and VHS – some remastered and packaged with extra features. For more information on the films of Peter Lorre released to home video, head on over to the DVD — VHS section of The Lost One website.

In The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen D. Youngkin discusses the making of Peter’s movies, including interviews with many of the directors, writers, actors, and crew who worked with Peter. A complete list of Peter’s movies is available in the book’s Appendix. For more information on The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, please visit the book’s official website.

Happy viewing!

Peter Lorre at Los Angeles’ Skirball Cultural Center

The Skirball Cultural Center, in Los Angeles, California, features Lorre films Casablanca (1942) items on display and The Conspirators (1944) on-screen.

The exhibition “Light and Noir: Exiles and Emigres in Hollywood, 1933-1950” discusses those European actors, directors, writers, cinematographers, and more who escaped Adolf Hitler and the Nazis when they came to power and journeyed to Hollywood.

A major feature of the exhibit is Casablanca, whose cast is largely comprised of émigré actors – Peter Lorre, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Helmut Dantine, S.Z. Sakall, Marcel Dalio, and Madeleine LeBeau, among many others – as well as the director, Hungarian-born Michael Curtiz. Included are a variety of costumes, props from Rick’s Café Americain, film clips, and lobby cards and reviews published on the film’s release in November, 1942.

The exhibit runs from Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, to Sunday, Mar. 1, 2015.

Complimenting the “Light and Noir” exhibit will be lectures, seminars, courses, and salons. From November, 2014, to February, 2015, the Skirball’s free “Classic Film” series will feature the work of emigres.

On the Skirball schedule will be The Conspirators (1944), Peter’s sixth movie with Sydney Greenstreet, and starring Paul Henreid, Hedy Lamarr, and Victor Francen. The Conspirators will be shown on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, at 1:30 pm.

Admission to the Skirball, including the exhibit “Light and Noir”, is $10 for adults; $7 for seniors 65 and older, as well as full-time students; and $5 for children ages 2 to 12. Admission is free for Skirball members, as well as children younger than 2 years old. On Thursdays, the Skirball is free for everyone.

Admission to The Conspirators, as well as any movie in the "Classic Film" series, is free for everyone.

The Skirball Cultural Center is located at 2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard, in Los Angeles, California.

Parking is available on-site in the North Lot, the northern underground parking garage located at the end of the Skirball’s main driveway. Parking is also available nearby in the East Lot, the eastern underground parking garage, located across Sepulveda Boulevard.

More information about parking and ticket prices, as well as directions, may be found on the Skirball website.

The Skirball Cultural Center may also be reached at (310) 440-4500.

Goethe-Institut Presents Lorre’s Der Verlorene

Peter Lorre’s first and only directorial effort Der Verlorene (1951) will be on-screen at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City on Friday, Nov. 14 and Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014. The screening is co-presented by the Goethe-Institut New York as part of the series “The Climate of Vienna – The Austrian Film Museum at Fifty”.

Der Verlorene will be shown at 9 pm on Friday, Nov. 14, and at 3 pm, on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014.

Der Verlorene will be preceded by These Are the Men (1943) an 11-minute film by Alan Osbiston and Dylan Thomas; and Eigruber-Audienz 1940 (1940), a 3-minute movie.

The “Climate of Vienna – The Austrian Film Museum at Fifty” will run from Nov. 12 to Nov. 16, 2014. Other films on the schedule are available on the Anthology Film Archives website.

Tickets are $10 for general admission, and $8 for students and seniors.

The Anthology Film Archives is located at 32 Second Avenue, in New York City, New York.

The archive is served by both subways and buses. Directions, as well as public transportation information, may be found on the archive’s website.

For more information, please call (212) 439-8700.

More information parking and ticket prices, as well as hours, may be found on the Goethe-Institut website.

In his book The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen D. Youngkin discusses the troubled making of Der Verlorene (1951) in a full chapter, including interviews with actors and crew before and behind the cameras.

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre is available for the Kindle and Nook, in addition to hard-bound and soft-bound editions.

Lorre Lovers, Spend Halloween with Peter

Peter Lorre fans will have an opportunity to catch Lorre comedy-horror films on screens large and small this Halloween season.

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Tales of Terror at Richmond’s Poe Museum

The Poe Museum, in Richmond, Virginia, will kick off a Vincent Price weekend on Halloween night with a showing of Tales of Terror (1962).

Hosted by the actor’s daughter Victoria Price, “Pop Goes to the Movies” begins at 6 pm with a costume contest and a Poe Look-Alike Contest, both judged by Ms. Price and a panel of special guests. Tales of Terror will follow the contests, introduced by Ms. Price.

Admission for the evening is $20. The proceeds will benefit the Poe Museum’s education programming.

The Poe Museum is located at 1914-16 East Main Street, in the Shockoe Bottom district of Richmond, Virginia. Opened in The Old Stone House in 1922, the museum is just blocks from Edgar Allan Poe’s first home in Richmond, as well as his first job, the Southern Literary Messenger.

Free parking is available in the museum’s lot, as well as surrounding neighborhood streets.

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Vincent Price Marathon on MGM-HD Television Channel

On Halloween, the cable TV channel MGM-HD will present “The Price of Fear”, a marathon of nine Vincent Price horror movies, including two films co-starring Peter Lorre and more comedy than horror – The Raven (1963) and The Comedy of Terrors (1964).

The festival begins at 11 am on Oct. 31 and includes the following movies:

• 11 am – Theater of Blood
• 1 pm – The Abominable Dr. Phibes
• 3 pm – Dr. Phibes Rises Again
• 4:50 pm – The Raven
• 6:35 pm – The Pit and the Pendulum
• 8:15 pm – The Haunted Palace
• 10 pm – The Fall of the House of Usher
• Midnight – The Masque of the Red Death
• 2 am – The Comedy of Terrors

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The cable television channel ME-TV will show Peter Lorre’s Route 66 episode, “Lizard’s Leg and Owlet’s Wing” at 3 am (EST) on Oct. 31.

Playing himself, Peter joined Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr in the episode.

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When Peter Lorre died suddenly at age 59 on Mar. 23, 1964, Vincent Price was asked to deliver the eulogy at Peter’s memorial service, held at the Pierce Brothers Mortuary two days later on Mar. 25. As co-star with Peter on a total of five movies, beginning in the late 1950s, Price agreed.

The eulogy is printed in full in the final chapter of the Lorre biography The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, written by Stephen D. Youngkin.

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre is available on the Kindle and Nook, as well as paperback and hard-cover editions.

M Onscreen at Houston’s 14 Pews

The independent venue 14 Pews, located in Houston, Texas, will present Peter Lorre and director Fritz Lang’s first sound movie M on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014.

The film will begin at 7:30 pm.

General admission to 14 Pews is $10 for all seats. Admission is free for all 14 Pews members.

14 Pews is located at 800 Aurora Street, in the East Sunset Heights area of Houston, Texas.

The venue is dedicated to the tradition of storytelling, as expressed through film, theater, music, dance, and the arts.

For more information, please call the venue at (281) 888-9677.

Aberdeen Cinema Presents M Oct 10-16, 2014

The Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen, Scotland, begins a week-long showing of Peter Lorre’s first sound movie M (1931) on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, and ending Thursday, Oct. 16.

M will be shown on the following days and times.

• Friday, Oct. 10 – 11 am
• Saturday, Oct. 11 – 8:40 pm
• Monday, Oct. 13 – 11 am
• Tuesday, Oct. 14 – 8:40 pm
• Wednesday, Oct. 15 – 3:15 pm
• Thursday, Oct. 16 – 11 am

Admission for evenings and weekends is £9 for adults, £6 for concessions, and £5 for children 15 and under. For Belmont Filmhouse members, admission is £7.50 for adults and £4.50 for concessions.

Matinee prices are £7.50 for adults, £5.50 for concessions, and £5 for children 15 and under. For Belmont Filmhouse members, matinees are £6 for adults and £4 for concessions.

Admission to 11 am showings are £3.50 for all seats, and £1.50 for Belmont Filmhouse members.

More information about tickets is available on the cinema’s website.

Tickets may be purchased through the Belmont Filmhouse website or by calling the cinema at 01224 343 500. No booking fees are added to any online order.

The Belmont Filmhouse is located at 49 Belmont Street in Aberdeen, Scotland.

The cinema is well-served by public transportation. Parking is limited near the cinema. More information about public transportation may be found on the Belmont’s website.

The Maltese Falcon Kicks off N. Carolina Film Noir Fest

The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina, will begin their film noir festival “Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know: The Unreliable Men of Film Noir” with a screening of Peter Lorre’s first Warner Bros. movie The Maltese Falcon (1941) on Friday, Oct. 3, 2014.

The Maltese Falcon begins at 8 pm in the Museum Auditorium, located in the East Building of the Art Museum. NCMA film curator Laura Boyes will introduce each film.

Admission for each movie is $7 for adults, and $5 for MCMA members, children age 7 to 18, and college students with ID. Series tickets are not available.

Tickets may be purchased through the North Carolina Museum of Art website. Click the green “Buy Tickets” button. Tickets purchased online may be printed at home or left for will-call at the auditorium. A fee will be added to each online order.

The festival will run from Friday, Oct. 3 to Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. The full schedule is available on the North Carolina Museum of Art website. All films will be shown in 35mm prints.

The North Carolina Museum of Art is located at 2110 Blue Ridge Road in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Parking is available in the Blue Ridge Lot, on the right after entering the Museum complex. Additional parking is available behind the West Building, on the left after entering the Museum complex. More information about parking may be found on the museum website.

For more information, please contact the museum at (919) 839-6262.

Penn Cinema Monday Film Series Includes Casablanca

As part of their annual “Monday Night Movie” series at the Penn Cinema in Lititz, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware, Casablanca (1942) will be shown Monday, Sept. 29, 2014.

The film begins at 7 pm in both locations, with an encore at 10 am on Tuesday, Sept. 30, at the Lititz theater.

Tickets are $10 for adults, and $8 for seniors and children.

Tickets may be purchased at each cinema’s box office before the show, as well as online through the Penn Cinema website, which opens to the Fandango site. A processing fee of $1.25 will be added to each online purchase.

The Penn Cinema in Lititz is located at 541 Airport Road, in Lititz, Pennsylvania. For more information, please call (717) 626-7720

The Penn Cinema in Wilmington is located at 401 S. Madison Street, in Wilmington, Delaware. For more information, please call (302) 656-4314.

The full schedule at the Lititz and Wilmington cinemas are available through each theater’s website.

Parking is available in each theater’s parking lot.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen Youngkin describes the making of Casablanca, Peter’s third movie with Humphrey Bogart and his fourth at the Warner Bros. studio. Not yet under contract with the studio, Peter claimed he made more money playing roulette on the “gambling room” set between takes than he did working before the cameras. But it was his performance in Casablanca that finally sold the Warner brothers on the idea of signing him to a contract.

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre is available in both soft-bound and hardback editions, as well as the Kindle and Nook.

The Maltese Falcon Kicks off Seattle Film Noir Fest

Peter Lorre’s first Warner Bros. movie The Maltese Falcon (1941) kicks off the 37th annual film noir series “Live By Night” at the Seattle Art Museum on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014.

The movie begins at 7:30 pm in the Plestcheeff Auditorium.

Admission for the entire series is $68 for adults, and $63 for Seattle Art Museum members, as well as Film School, SIFF, SFI, and NWFF members.

A limited number of single-film tickets may be available on a first-come, first-served basis at 7:25 pm on the day of the show – for $8 cash or check at the auditorium door.

Tickets may be purchased through the Seattle Art Museum website. Tickets may be sent by eMail or left for will-call at the auditorium.

The festival ends Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. The full schedule of nine movies is available on the Seattle Art Museum website. All films will be shown in 35mm prints.

The Seattle Art Museum is located at 1300 First Avenue, at the corner of First Avenue and Union Street, in Seattle, Washington.

Parking is available at the Russell Investment Center Garage, located at 1301 Second Avenue, in Seattle, Washington. Request a discount voucher for the garage at the Seattle Art Museum ticketing desk. More information about parking, as well as directions to the museum, may be found on the museum website.

For more information, please contact the museum at (206) 654-3100.

M Onscreen at ArcLight Cinemas

As part of their “International” series of movies made in Italy, France, Japan, New Zealand, Brazil, Germany, and China, the ArcLight Cinemas chain in southern California shines the spotlight on Peter Lorre’s first sound movie, the German classic M (1931), this week at the Beach Cities and La Jolla theaters.

Beach Cities will show M on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, at 7:45 pm.

La Jolla will show M on Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 7:05 pm.

Admission is $15.50 for adults, $10.75 for children ages 1 to 12, and $12.50 for seniors age 60 and up. Infants under the age of 1 must be charged the full adult price of $15.50.

ArcLight members receive a discount on each ticket and may also use their free “ArcLight Presents” tickets for any film in the series.

Tickets may be purchased at the ArcLight Cinemas box office or through the automated ticket kiosks located in the cinema lobby. Tickets may also be purchased online through the ArcLight website. The ticket will be sent to you by eMail, or you can also retrieve the ticket from the ticket kiosk in the theater, using the same credit card used to purchase the ticket online.

The Beach Cities ArcLight is located at 831 S. Nash Street, in El Segundo, California. For more information, please call the cinema at (310) 607-9630.

The La Jolla ArcLight is located at 4425 La Jolla Village Drive, in San Diego, California. For more information, please call the cinema at (858) 768-7770.

Parking at both locations is available in the cinemas’ parking lots.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen D. Youngkin discusses the making of M through interviews with director Fritz Lang. The Lost One is available in both hard-bound and soft-bound editions, as well as eBooks on the Kindle and Nook.