October 17, 2019

NCMA Film Event Includes Lorre

Halloween is the season of horror movies, and on Friday, October 18, 2019, the North Carolina Museum of Art, in Raleigh, North Carolina, continues its “Indoor Movies” film series with Mad Love (1935) one of the few horror films Peter Lorre appeared in during his long film career.

Shown in 35mm, Mad Love will begin at 8 pm in the SECU Auditorium, located in the East Building of the Art Museum. NCMA film curator Laura Boyes will introduce the film.

Admission is $7 for adults, and $5 for MCMA members, children age 7 to 18, and college students with ID.

Tickets may be purchased online through the Museum of Art website. Click the “Tickets” button on the Mad Love page of the venue website. Tickets purchased online may be printed at home or left for “will call” at the auditorium. Sales tax and transaction fees will be added to each online order.

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, located on the right after entering the Museum complex. Additional parking is available behind the West Building, located on the left after entering the Museum complex. More information about parking, as well as directions to the museum and public transportation, is available on the venue’s website.

For more information, please call the North Carolina Museum of Art at 919-839-6262.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen D. Youngkin discusses the making of Mad Love through interviews with Frances Drake, who played Yvonne Orlac, the object of Dr. Gogol’s (Lorre) desire.

Produced by MGM, Mad Love was Peter Lorre’s first American movie – but Peter agreed to be loaned to the studio only if Columbia Pictures, with whom he was under contract, would make Crime and Punishment (1935), a movie Peter was most interested in.

To play the brilliant surgeon Dr. Gogol, who cures wounded soldiers and deformed children, Peter Lorre allowed his head to be shaved bald. Images of the studio barber at work can be viewed in the “Photo Album” section of The Lost One website.

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre may be purchased from Amazon U.S., Amazon Canada, and Amazon U.K, as well as other booksellers.

Click on any of these links, and the order page will open.

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