Happy Birthday, Peter Lorre! – From SiriusXM and TCM

Special programming blocks celebrating actors’ birthdays are a tradition on the Radio Classics channel, broadcast over channel 148 on the SiriusXM radio dial.

But this year, Peter Lorre gets a double dose of Happy Birthday wishes from host Greg Bell with two different blocks of Lorre radio programs.

Beginning Tuesday, June 26, 2018 – Peter’s 114th birthday – and continuing throughout the week, Lorre fans can enjoy eight of Peter’s old-time radio performances.

“Peter Lorre Special” includes two episodes from Peter’s own 13-week summer series Mystery in the Air, “The Mask of Medusa” (Sept. 4, 1947) and “Crime and Punishment” (Sept. 25, 1947); an episode of the anthology series Suspense, “Nobody Loves Me” (Aug. 30, 1945); and finally a guest appearance on Jack Benny’s show The Lucky Strike Program, “I Stand Condemned” (Mar. 24, 1946).

“More Peter Lorre B-Day” includes guest appearances on Fred Allen’s show The Texaco Star Theater (Jan. 3, 1943) and Duffy’s Tavern (Oct. 19, 1943), an episode of the anthology series Inner Sanctum, “The Black Seagull” (Mar. 7, 1943), and finally, an episode of Peter’s Armed Forces Radio Services series Mystery Playhouse, “Lady in the Morgue” (Mollé Mystery Theater, May 15, 1945).

And included in the regular block When Radio Was is Peter Lorre’s Suspense episode, “The Devil’s Saint”, originally airing on Jan. 19, 1943.

The Lorre programs and tributes will air on these dates and times ~

Sunday, June 24 ~
When Radio Was
4:30 pm Pacific, 7:30 pm Eastern

Tuesday, June 26 ~
Peter Lorre Special
5 pm Pacific, 8 pm Eastern

More Peter Lorre B-Day
9 pm Pacific

Wednesday, June 27 ~
More Peter Lorre B-Day
12 midnight Eastern

Thursday, July 28 ~
Peter Lorre Special
11 am Pacific, 2 pm Eastern

Friday, June 29 ~
More Peter Lorre B-Day
11 am Pacific, 2 pm Eastern

Saturday, July 30 ~
Peter Lorre Special
9 am Pacific, 12 noon Eastern

Sunday, July 1 ~
More Peter Lorre B-Day
1 am Pacific, 4 am Eastern

And on Friday, June 29, 2018 – three days after Peter’s birthday – the party continues on the Turner Classic Movies channel as TCM salutes Peter’s birthday with a morning and afternoon of Lorre films, beginning at 9 am Eastern and ending at 8 pm, including ~

• 9 am – M (1931)
• 11 am – The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
• 12:30 pm – Mad Love (1935)
• 1:45 pm – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
• 3 pm – The Maltese Falcon (1941)
• 4:45 pm – The Conspirators (1944)
• 6:30 pm – The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)

Satellite radio provider SiriusXM airs Radio Classics over channel 148. Subscribers may also listen to the programs over the internet. Log-in with your User ID and password. Not a subscriber? A free 30-day trial is also available through the Sirius XM radio website.

The full schedule for the week of June 24 to July 1, 2018, is available on the SiriusXM Radio website.

The life and career of Peter Lorre is chronicled in the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre by Stephen D. Youngkin, who began his research in the 1970s and interviewed Peter’s brothers Andrew and Francis, his first wife Celia Lovsky, his sister-in-law Barbara through his second wife Karen Verne, his daughter Catherine Lorre, friends, fellow actors, and the directors, producers, and crew who worked with him throughout his career.

These interviews shed light on Peter’s childhood, his early days in theater, his career on film, radio, and television, and his sad final days.

The Appendix of The Lost One includes the most complete list available of Peter’s credits – radio, film, stage, and television.

The Lorre radio programs airing this week in honor of Peter’s birthday are available through many merchants. Many of Peter’s movies, as well as some of his television appearances, are available on DVD.

Published in 2005 through University Press of Kentucky, The Lost One may be purchased from Amazon U.S., Amazon Canada, and Amazon U.K, as well as other booksellers.

Lorre Film Fest at UW Cinematheque

Peter Lorre fans in the area of Madison, Wisconsin, will enjoy a special treat in June and July, 2018 – a 6-week, 8-film series of Lorre movies and Lorre caricatures in Warner Bros. cartoons at the Cinematheque on the campus of the University of Wisconsin.

“Peter Lorre: The Mad and the Bad” – a tribute to “one of cinema history’s most fascinating and compelling performers, the great Peter Lorre” – begins Wednesday, June 20, 2018, and runs every Wednesday through July 27, 2018. Films include ~

June 20 ~
Hare-Raising Hare (1947) – 7 pm
The Face Behind the Mask (1940) – 7:10 pm
Island of Doomed Men (1940) – 8:30 pm

June 27 ~
M (1931) – 7 pm

July 4 ~
Birth of a Notion (1947) – 7 pm
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) – 7:10 pm

July 11 ~
Der Verlorene (1951) – 7 pm

July 18 ~
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) – 7 pm
The Beast with Five Fingers (1940) – 8:30 pm

July 25 ~
The Maltese Falcon (1941) – 7 pm

Prints, both 35mm and 16mm, are courtesy of the Library of Congress, the Goethe Institut, and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. The full schedule is available on the Cinematheque website.

Admission to all movies at the Cinematheque is free for everyone. Doors open 30 minutes before show time. Donations are accepted at the door or through the venue’s website.

The Cinematheque is located in Room 4070, at the top of Vilas Communications Hall. Also known as “the Parliamentary Room”, Room 4070 is in the center of the open 4th floor plaza of Vilas Hall and may be reached from the Park Street stairs and elevator, the stairs on University Avenue, and the stairs facing University Square and the Lucky Building.

Vilas Hall is located at 821 University Avenue on the campus of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.

Parking is available in two parking structures on North Lake Street – one at the corner of North Lake and West Johnson streets, and the State Street Campus Garage, located at 415 North Lake Street.

The Cinematheque is also well-served by public transportation.

Directions to the Cinematheque, as well as more information on parking and bus lines, are available on the venue’s website.

The life and career of Peter Lorre is chronicled in the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre by Stephen D. Youngkin, who began his research in the 1970s and interviewed Peter’s brothers Andrew and Francis, his first wife Celia Lovsky, his sister-in-law Barbara through his second wife Karen Verne, his daughter Catherine Lorre, friends, fellow actors, and the directors, producers, and crew who worked with him throughout his career.

These interviews shed light on Peter’s childhood, his early days in theater, his career on film, radio, and television, and his sad final days.

The Appendix of The Lost One includes the most complete list available of Peter’s credits – radio, film, stage, and television.

Published in 2005 through University Press of Kentucky, The Lost One is available in hard-cover, soft-cover, Amazon’s Kindle, and Barnes and Noble’s Nook.

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.

Classic Film Book Challenge 2018 Begins in June

Since 2013, film writer and classic movie fan Raquel Stecher has offered a Summer Reading Challenge through her blog Out of the Past, and this year, the contest will run from June 7 to September 15, 2018.

The deadline to sign up is Sunday, July 15, 2018.

The rules are simple –

• Sign up for the challenge through Raquel’s website
• Read a classic film book
• Write a review and post it on your Blog, Instagram or Goodreads profile
• Use hashtag #classicfilmreading
• Submit your review link – the form is also on Raquel’s website
• Repeat until you have read and reviewed 6 books!
• Review 6 books and be automatically entered to win a prize

What counts as a classic film book? According to her website, a classic film book is any of the following –

• A biographical book about some from the classic film era. Biography, autobiography, memoir or a collection of interviews or letters all count. Can be about an actor, actress, director, or other cast or crew member.
• A book about films – specific film(s), genre, film-making process, etc.
• A photography or art book related to classic films, fashion, style, or a particular person
• Film criticism or analysis
• A 20th-century novel that was adapted into a classic film
• A novel fictionalizing a classic film or an actor/actress from old Hollywood

A total of 6 books must be read, but they can be from any of the categories listed above.

And if you complete all 6 reviews by Saturday, September 15, 2018, you will be eligible to win one single disc DVD-MOD from Warner Archive movie of your choice.

The contest is also open internationally.

Many books about or related to Peter Lorre fall in the categories above. Here are a couple of suggestions ~

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (2005), by Stephen D. Youngkin, tells the story of Peter’s life and career, beginning with his birth on June 26, 1904, in Rosenberg, Hungary, through his school years, his start in European theater, his film career in Germany, England, and the United States, and his work in radio and television.

Included are interviews with members of Peter’s family – two brothers, daughter Cathy, first wife Celia Lovsky, and sister-in-law Barbara – and actors, directors, producers, writers, and behind-the-scenes crew who worked with Peter on films, television, and radio.

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.

Published in 2018, The Life and Times of Sydney Greenstreet, by Derek Sculthorpe, discusses the career of Peter’s most popular co-star at Warner Bros. Studio in the 1940s.

Peter appeared in nine movies with Sydney Greenstreet, beginning with The Maltese Falcon in 1941 and ending with The Verdict in 1946. The two actors also appeared on radio together in the 1940s.

The Life and Times of Sydney Greenstreet may be purchased from Amazon U.S., as well as other booksellers.

More information about the contest may be found on Raquel Stecher’s blog Out of the Past. Happy reading!

Undersea Adventure with Lorre in New York State

The Capitol Theatre, located in Rome, New York, continues its “Family Favorites Series” with Walt Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) on Friday, June 1, and Saturday, June 2, 2018.

On Friday, the movie will be shown at 7 pm. On Saturday, the movie will be shown at 2 pm, as well as 7 pm.

Admission is $6.50 for adults; $5.50 for seniors, veterans, and students; and $4.50 for Friends of the Capitol Theatre. Children age 12 and under will be admitted for free with the purchase of a paid ticket. Tickets may be purchased at the cinema box-office before each show. Tickets may also be purchased through the venue’s website. A nominal booking fee will be added to each ticket purchased on-line.

The Capitol Theatre is located at 220 West Dominick Street in Rome, New York.

Parking is available on West Dominick Street in front of the theater. Parking is also available in a lot off Erie Boulevard.

For more information, please contact the Capitol Theatre at 315-337-6277.

Lorre Film Next in Connecticut Movie Series

The classic mystery The Maltese Falcon (1941) is next on the schedule of the Newtown Cultural Arts Commission’s film series "Someday Cinema" in Newtown, Connecticut, on Thursday, May 31, 2018.

The film will be shown at 2 pm and 7 pm. The 2 pm matinee will be shown with captions for the benefit of the hearing impaired. The 7 pm evening show will be introduced by Dr. Mark Schenker, of Yale.

Attendees of both screenings will have a chance to win a copy of the Dashiell Hammett novel and a modern graphic poster of the Bogart-Astor-Lorre-Greenstreet movie The Maltese Falcon, donated by artist Michael Gelen of Inkwell Studios, located in Buffalo, New York.

Admission is $3 for all seats.

The Edmond Town Hall Theatre is located in the Newtown Town Hall, 45 Main Street, in Newtown, Connecticut. For more information, please call 203-270-4285.

Parking is available in front of the Newtown Town Hall, as well as the lot behind the building.

Movies in the “Someday Cinema” series are sponsored by local businesses and organizations. The C.H. Booth Library is the sponsor of The Maltese Falcon.

Coming up later in the fall – a Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff double-feature of The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935), on Sunday, October 29, 2018.

Summer Film Fests Include Lorre

Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer, and many movie theaters around the world host classic film festivals. During the summer of 2018, Casablanca (1942) will be shown at a number of cinemas, including ~

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Paramount Theatre – Austin, Texas

Now in its 34th year, the annual Paramount Summer Classic Film Series, held at the historic Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas, includes two Peter Lorre films.

Casablanca (1942) kicks off the fest on Thursday, May 24, 2018, with a Film Fan Opening Night Party at 6:30 pm and the movie at 7:30 pm.

The Maltese Falcon (1941) will be shown on Wednesday, Aug. 8, at 9 pm, and on Thursday, Aug. 9, at 7 pm.

Tickets may be purchased at the box-office or on-line through the Paramount website, with discounts for Film Fan Club members. A FLIX-TIX pass, good for any 10 admissions during the festival, is also available.

The Paramount Theatre is located at 713 Congress Avenue, in Austin, Texas. Directions to the venue, as well as parking information, are available on the Paramount website.

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Prince Charles Cinema – London, England

The Prince Charles Cinema, located in London, England, will present a 35mm print of Casablanca on Saturday, May 26, 2018, as part of their Classic Film Series, as well as their series of 35mm Presentations.

Casablanca will begin at 2:45 pm.

Tickets may be purchased at the box-office or on-line through the cinema’s website.

The Prince Charles Cinema is located at 7 Leicester Place, in London, England. Directions to the cinema, as well as information on public transportation, are available on the venue’s website.

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Rio Grande Theatre – Las Cruces, New Mexico

As part of its annual Classic Film Series, the historic Rio Grande Theatre, located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, will present Casablanca on Saturday, May 26, 2018.

Casablanca will begin at 7 pm.

Tickets may be purchased at the box-office or on-line through the cinema’s website. A Season Pass for the festival, which runs from September to September, is also available.

The Rio Grande Theatre is located at 211 North Downtown Mall, in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

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Cinespia – Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, California

On March 25, 1964, Peter Lorre was laid to rest in the Abbey of the Psalms, Corridor C in the Alcove of Reverence, in Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery.

On Sunday, May 27, 2018, the cemetery, now known as Hollywood Forever Cemetery, will show Casablanca as part of its Cinespia outdoors series of movies.

Doors open at 6:45 pm, and the movie will begin at 8:30 pm.

Tickets may be purchased in advance through the Cinespia website.

Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard, in Los Angeles, California. Directions to the cemetery, as well as public transportation options, are available on the Cinespia website.

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Prytania Theatre – New Orleans, Louisiana

Every Sunday and Wednesday, the historic Prytania Theatre, located in New Orleans, Louisiana, features classic Hollywood films of the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. For more than 6 years, Rene Brunet, Jr, selected the movies himself, and now the Prytania staff continues the tradition he began by featuring some of his favorite movies.

Casablanca will be shown on Sunday, June 3, and Wednesday, June 6, 2018. The film will begin at 10 am both days.

Tickets may be purchased at the box-office or on-line through the venue’s website.

The Prytania is located at 5339 Prytania Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Majestic Theater – Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Every Wednesday in the summer months of June through August, the historic Majestic Theater, located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, presents classic movies, including introductions by the Majestic’s movie buff Jeffrey Gabel and raffle prizes.

On Wednesday, June 6, 2018, the cinema kicks off this year’s fest with a showing of Casablanca, beginning at 7:30 pm.

Tickets may be purchased at the box-office, by phone, or through the venue’s website.

The Majestic Theater is located at 25 Carlisle Street, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Directions to the theater, as well as information about parking, are available on the cinema’s website.

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Saenger Theatre – Mobile, Alabama

Beginning a little later in the summer season, the Saenger Theatre will kick off its “Summer Classic Movie Series” with Casablanca on Sunday, July 15, 2018.

The movie will begin at 3 pm.

Tickets may be purchased at either the Saenger Theatre Box Office or the Mobile Civic Center Box Office.

The Saenger Theatre is located at 6 South Joachim Street in Mobile, Alabama. Directions to the theater, as well as information about parking, are available on the venue’s website.

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Tampa Theater – Tampa, Florida

The Tampa Theater ends its “Summer Classics Movie Series” with Casablanca on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018.

Casablanca will begin at 3 pm. Immediately following the movie, retired Sarasota Herald Tribune film critic George Meyer will lead a discussion of Casablanca and a question-and-answer session with the audience.

Tickets may be purchased at the cinema box-office, as well as on-line through the venue’s website.

The Tampa Theatre is located at 711 North Franklin Street in Tampa, Florida. Directions to the cinema, as well as information about parking, are available on the cinema’s website.

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In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (2005), Stephen D. Youngkin details the making of Casablanca, a movie that gave Peter the opportunity to work with his good friend Humphrey Bogart for a third time.

As the pivotal character Ugarte, Peter gets the action going by leaving with Rick Blaine (Bogart) a pair of valuable exit visas. It was a part to which Peter attached little importance – but it was the part that led him to a contract with Warner Bros. and the most productive period of his career.

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.

Annapolis Movie Series Includes Lorre

The historic 1747 Pub, located in Annapolis, Maryland, continues its Sunday night series of free movies in the Beer Garden with Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) over the Memorial Day holiday weekend on Sunday, May 27, 2018.

The movie will begin at dusk, approximately 8:30 pm.

Admission is free, and showings are open to the public.

Come between 3 and 7 pm and enjoy Happy Hour or a meal at the 1747 Pub. Food and beverage service continues throughout the screening. Scheduled movies are listed on the Events Calendar page of the pub’s website.

The Beer Garden at the 1747 Pub is located directly behind Reynolds Tavern and has an entrance on Franklin Street. Reynolds Tavern is located at 7 Church Circle, in Annapolis, Maryland.

Parking is available in the South Street Lot, located at 134 South Street, off Church Circle, in Annapolis, Maryland. More information about the South Street Lot is available on the Annapolis Parking website.

For more information, please call the Reynolds Tavern at 410-295-9555.

Summer Fun with Lorre on TV

Summer brings many Lorre movies to television and Turner Classic Movies – with a special treat for Lorre fans in June.

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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May, 2018

A handful of Lorre films for May, plus one of his many television appearances.

May 3 (Thurs), 2 pm, Starz Westerns channel – Wagon Train, “The Alexander Portlass Story” (originally broadcast over NBC, Mar. 16, 1960).

May 6 (Sun), 10:20 pm, Movies! Network – Quicksand (1950).

May 12 (Sat), 1 am, Movies! Network – Quicksand (1950).

May 20 (Sun), 4 am, Movies! Network – Quicksand (1950).

May 21 (Mon), 10:15 pm, Turner Classic Movies channel – Casablanca (1942). TCM’s primetime theme is “The Four Freedoms” with a series of five movies, including this wartime classic. Harvey J. Kaye, author of The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great (2014), co-hosts the evening with TCM host Ben Mankiewicz and discusses the two freedoms associated with Casablanca – the Freedom of Worship and the Freedom of Speech.

May 24 (Thurs), 6 am, Movies! Network – Quicksand (1950).

May 27 (Sun), 7:45 am, TCM – Hollywood Canteen (1944). Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet appear as themselves in this star-studded extravaganza about the famed servicemen’s canteen.

May 29 (Tues), 7:45 am, TCM – My Favorite Brunette (1947). TCM salutes Bob Hope’s birthday with the only movie Bob made with Peter – a comic take-off on mystery and suspense movies.

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June, 2018

June 26 is the 114th anniversary of Peter Lorre’s birth – June 26, 1904 – and for Lorre fans, June brings many Lorre movies on the Turner Classic Movies channel.

June 2 (Sat), 2 pm, TCM – Around the World in 80 Days (1956).

June 2 (Sat), 8 pm, TCM – Three Strangers (1946). The primetime theme is “Stranger Danger”, with a double-feature of movies involving strangers. Peter joins Sydney Greenstreet and Geraldine Fitzgerald as the title characters, who make a wish on a Chinese statue, with unfortunate results.

June 4 (Mon), 6:15, TCM – They Met in Bombay (1941). TCM wishes Rosalind Russell a happy birthday with a morning and afternoon of her films, including the only movie she made with Peter, who plays the Chinese skipper of a tramp steamer bound for Hong Kong and who takes the escaping jewel thieves Rosalind Russell and Clark Gable as passengers – for a price.

June 8 (Fri), 11:30 am, TCM – Hotel Berlin (1945). Check in to TCM’s daytime theme of “Five Star Hotels”.

June 14 (Thurs), 2 am, TCM – Hollywood Canteen (1944). Every Tuesday and Thursday in June, TCM turns the spotlight on movie musicals with their series "Mad About Musicals". Today, the focus is on musicals of the 1940

June 18 (Mon), 9:15 am, TCM – Muscle Beach Party (1964). TCM's daytime theme is "Summer at the Drive-In", including this entry in the popular Beach Party series of Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello films.

June 19 (Tues), 12 noon, TCM – Silk Stockings (1957). TCM's spotlight series continues with "Mad About Musicals: The 1950s".

June 25 (Mon), 4 pm, MeTV channel – Wagon Train, "The Alexander Portlass Story" (originally broadcast over NBC, Mar. 16, 1960).

June 29 (Fri), TCM – Although June 26 is Peter Lorre's birthday, TCM celebrates his 114th birthday today with a daytime theme of "Peter Lorre" and a morning and afternoon of Lorre movies, beginning at 9 am and continuing until 8 pm, including ~

• 9 am, TCM – M (1931). Peter's first sound movie.
• 11 am, TCM – The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). Peter’s first English-language film.
• 12:30 pm, TCM – Mad Love (1935). Peter’s first American film.
• 1:45 pm, TCM – Stranger on the Third Floor (1940). Peter plays the title character in the movie considered the first film noir.
• 3 pm, TCM – The Maltese Falcon (1941). Peter’s first film at the Warner Bros. studio.
• 4:45 pm, TCM – The Conspirators (1944). Peter teams up with Sydney Greenstreet as Allied agents working in Lisbon.
• 6:30 pm, TCM – The Beast with Five Fingers (1946). "Lorre Day" concludes with Peter’s final movie at Warner Bros.

June 30 (Sat), 8 pm, TCM – The Mask of Dimitrios (1944). TCM's primetime theme is "Mystery Writers", including this fjilm with Peter as a Dutch mystery writer who gets much more than he bargained for he starts to investigate the life and death of a notorious international criminal.

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July, 2018

July brings several Lorre movies and TV shows, including one of his final performances.

July 2 (Mon), 4 am, MeTV – 77 Sunset Strip, “5” (originally broadcast over ABC, Sept. 20, 1963). The 1963-64 season opened with a 5-part series of episodes with numerous guest stars, including Peter Lorre as “The Gypsy”.

July 4 (Wed), 1:30 am, MeTV – Alfred Hitchcock Presents, “The Diplomatic Corpse” (originally broadcast over CBS, Dec. 8, 1957). As Tomas Salgado, Peter helps an American couple (George Peppard, Mary Scott) locate their stolen car – and Scott’s aunt.

July 10 (Tues), 6 am, Movies! Network – Quicksand (1950).

July 15 (Sun), 11:30 am, TCM – Casablanca (1942).

July 22 (Sun), 12 noon, TCM – Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

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Many of these and other Lorre movies are now available on DVD and Blu-Ray – many 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 and television credits is available in the book’s Appendix.

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.

Happy viewing!

The Maltese Falcon on SiriusXM Radio Classics

The Radio Classics channel will air the Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater episode “The Maltese Falcon” during the week of April 29 to May 5, 2018, Sunday to Saturday.

The program will air on the following dates and times –

Tuesday, May 1 ~
2 pm Pacific, 5 pm Eastern

Thursday, May 3 ~
6 am Pacific, 9 am Eastern

Friday, May 4 ~
12 midnight Pacific

Saturday, May 5 ~
3 am Eastern

Satellite radio provider SiriusXM airs Radio Classics over channel 148. Subscribers may also listen to the programs over the internet. Log-in with your User ID and password. Not a subscriber? A free 30-day trial is also available through the SirusXM radio website.

Originally airing over CBS on Sept. 20, 1943, this episode reunited the cast of the classic 1941 movie The Maltese Falcon in their original roles – Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his client Brigid O’Shaughnessy, Sydney Greenstreet as “the Fat Man” Kasper Gutman, and Peter Lorre as Joel Cairo.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen Youngkin discusses the radio career of Peter Lorre. A natural for the medium, Peter loved performing on radio and unlike many other actors, played to the microphone rather than the studio audience and gave what co-star Harry Morgan ("The Voice of Mystery", Mystery in the Air) described as a “great vocal performance”.

A complete-to-date list of Peter’s radio credits, along with his theater, film, and television credits, is available in the Appendix of The Lost One.

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

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.

Have a Drink with Lorre in Brooklyn Tonight

In Casablanca (1942), everybody comes to Rick’s for drinks, music, and roulette, with a side order of plotting to escape the North African town. And in the small but pivotal role of Ugarte, Peter Lorre is one who makes escape possible by selling exit visas on the black market.

Saturday night, April 22, 2018, Lorre fans in the Brooklyn, New York, area will have the opportunity to enjoy a French 75 cocktail and a showing of Casablanca at the Videology Bar and Cinema as part of the venue’s regular series “Classic Films, Classic Cocktails”.

The film will be shown at 5:30 pm and 8:30 pm. At 5:30 pm, Noah Isenberg, author of We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie, will host a question-and-answer period following the movie. At 8:30 pm, Isenberg will introduce the film.

Admission is $24 for everyone. Tickets may be purchased at the door beginning 30 minutes for showtime. Tickets may also be purchased online through the cinema’s website. Each ticket includes a French 75 cocktail. Because alcohol is served, the Videology has strict rules about who may attend the showings. More information about tickets is available on the venue’s website.

The Videology Bar and Cinema is located at 308 Bedford Avenue, at the corner of Bedford Avenue and South 1st Street, in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, New York.

Parking is available on the streets near the cinema.

For more information, please contact the Videology at 718-782-3468.