Madelyn

just here for shits and giggles

[madelyntwiss]

Ah yes I've been led back to Tumblr~

I made this bot a while back on Chai AI but I forgot to share it to Tumblr, he's just a silly goofy little guy you can talk to lol

[madelyntwiss]

Gotta love Peter’s artwork in his films!

[madelyntwiss]

@angelamontoo I believe they are all his! They look really similar in style, I also read that Peter liked to paint as a child, so he most likely carried on the hobby through his adult years!

[madelyntwiss]

Gotta love Peter’s artwork in his films!

[madelyntwiss]

Im currently working on a Peter Lorre inspired Spotify playlist! If you got song suggestions please let me know! This is it so far if you want to check it out 😵

[madelyntwiss]

Songs for da guy

[madelyntwiss]

Im currently working on a Peter Lorre inspired Spotify playlist! If you got song suggestions please let me know! This is it so far if you want to check it out 😵

[angelamontoo]

Drawing request; How about Polo (I was an adventuress) drinking a fancy sugary ice coffee drink. My guy Polo has a sweet tooth when it comes to coffee:0

You got it, chief

Yeah if Polo were around today he'd definitely like those iced coffee drinks that are mostly sugar and caramel with a shot of espresso

Hope you enjoy, I always like drawing polo

[madelyntwiss]

Awwwwww he is sooo cute 😭😭😭😭 I love thiisssssss!!!!

[lorre-logic]

Peter Lorre's cameo in Muscle Beach Party is the strangest thing I've ever seen.

I mean him being in it alone is already weird enough but they had to make a 5'2 old man the strongest man in the world AND he could easily take down a body builder twice his size (who is his son btw) by a pinch on the ear.

[madelyntwiss]

The idea of old pudgy lil Peter standing around a bunch of half naked tanned buff dudes makes me uncomfy on his behalf 💪👁️👄👁️

[andreii-tarkovsky]

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

[madelyntwiss]

Honestly I feel like he thought of her more of a sister rather than a lover, same with whoever Emily is in 'the boogie man will get you'😶

[peterlorrefanpage]

Peter Lorre Movie Timeline

Peter Lorre was never a “horror” actor. At least, he didn’t want to be, and he tried his hardest not to be. Psychological terror, yes - the kind that takes intellect and insightfulness, and Lorre was overflowing with that. Horror was Hollywood’s ham-fisted label and unthinking approach. He was also a delightful comedian, a romantic, and overall a marvelously nuanced, talented actor. It’s a damned shame he wasn’t given more of the scripts he should have been. Anyway: I have linked to YouTube and archive.org where I could find full movies. There is a pack in this archive.org page as well. See below this list for more notes.

1929  Die verschwundene Frau (The Missing Wife)* - Patient of a Dentist. (Silent film; Lorre was uncredited.) *If you can source a copy, let me know!

1930  Der weiße Teufel (The White Devil) - Unestablished 

1931  M - Hans Beckert - and - Lorre dubbing in English! (The original is still superior.)

1931  Bomben auf Monte Carlo - Pawlitschek. (Peter is a glorified extra; 30 seconds of footage.)

1931  Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. - Redakteur Stix (Editor Stix). Also located here.

1931  Mann ist Mann (A Man’s a Man) - Galy Gay [Bertolt Brecht]

1932  Fünf von der Jazzband (The Jazzband Five) - Car thief. (Another small role.)

1932  Schuß im Morgengrauen (A Shot at Dawn)* - Klotz. (*If you can source a copy, let me know!)

1932  Der Weisse Damon (The White Demon) - Hunchback (Film originally titled Rauschgift.)

1932  Narcotics (French version of above) - Hunchback 

1932  F.P.1 antwortet nicht - Bildreporter Johnny 

1933  Was Frauen Traumen (What Women Dream) - Otto Fuesslli. Lorre sings! 

1933  Unsichtbare Gegner (Invisible Opponent) - Henry Pless 

1933  Du haut en bas (From Top to Bottom) - Beggar G. W. Pabst

1934  The Man Who Knew Too Much - Abbott. (Alfred Hitchcock; Lorre’s first English-speaking role!)

1935  Mad Love - Dr. Gogol 

1935  Crime and Punishment - Roderick Raskolnikov 

1936  Secret Agent - The General. (Alfred Hitchcock.)

1936  Crack-Up - Colonel Gimpy / Baron

1937  Nancy Steele Is Missing! - Prof. Sturm

1937  Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1) - Mr. Kentaro Moto 

1937  Lancer Spy - Maj. Sigfried Gruning. (He is barely in this and in my opinion, this isn’t a great part.)

1937  Thank You, Mr. Moto (2) - Mr. Kentaro Moto 

1938  Mr. Moto’s Gamble (3) - Mr. Kentaro Moto 

1938  Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (4) - Mr. Kentaro Moto 

1938  I’ll Give a Million - Louis ‘The Dope’ Monteau. (With John Carradine in a bit part.)

1938  Mysterious Mr. Moto (5) - Mr. Kentaro Moto 

1939  Mr. Moto’s Last Warning (6) - Mr. Kentaro Moto 

1939  Mr. Moto in Danger Island (7) - Mr. Kentaro Moto 

1939  Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (8) - Mr. Kentaro Moto 

1940  Strange Cargo - M'sieu Pig. (With Clark Gable and Joan Crawford.)  

1940  I Was an Adventuress - Polo. (With Erich von Stroheim and ballerina Tanya Vronsky.)

1940  Island of Doomed Men - Stephen Danel 

1940  Stranger on the Third Floor - The Stranger. (Reportedly launched the film noir genre. And rightly so! Peter doesn’t appear for awhile, but when he does…)

1940  You’ll Find Out - Fenninger. (With Kay Kyser, Bela Lugosi, and Boris Karloff.)

1941  The Face Behind the Mask - Janos 'Johnny’ Szabo 

1941  Mr. District Attorney - Paul Hyde

1941  They Met in Bombay - Captain Chan. (With Clark Gable and Rosalind Russell.)

1941  The Maltese Falcon - Joel Cairo (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #1)

1942  All Through the Night - Pepi. (This film is where Peter Lorre met his second-wife-to-be, Karen (Kaaren) Verne.) Here’s a clip. And another.

1942  Invisible Agent - Baron Ikito

1942  The Boogie Man Will Get You - Dr. Arthur Lorencz. (With Boris Karloff.)

1942  Casablanca - Signor Ugarte. (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #2)

1943  The Constant Nymph - Fritz Bercovy. Lorre’s role was significantly cut in editing.

1943  Background to Danger - Nikolai Zaleshoff. (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #3)

1943  The Cross of Lorraine - Sergeant Berger

1944  Passage to Marseille - Marius. (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #4. With Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains.)

1944  The Mask of Dimitrios - Cornelius Leyden. (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #5.)

1944  Arsenic and Old Lace - Dr. Einstein

1944 The Conspirators - Jan Bernazsky. (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #6.)

1944  Hollywood Canteen (segment). (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #7.)

1945  Hotel Berlin - Johannes Koenig

1945  Confidential Agent - Contreras

1946  Three Strangers - Johnny West. (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #8; Joan Lorring pairing #1.)

1946  Black Angel - Marko

1946  The Chase - Gino

1946  The Verdict - Victor Emmric. (Sydney Greenstreet pairing #9; Joan Lorring pairing #2.)

1946  The Beast with Five Fingers - Hilary Cummins

1947  My Favorite Brunette - Kismet. (With Bob Hope and Lon Chaney Jr.)

1948  Casbah - Slimane

1949  Rope of Sand - Toady

1950  Quicksand - Nick

1950  Double Confession - Paynter. (With William Hartnell, the first Doctor Who.)

1951  Der Verlorene (The Lost One) - Dr. Karl Rohte / Dr. Karl Neumeister. Lorre’s directorial debut.

1953  Beat the Devil - Julius O'Hara

1954  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Conseil

1956  Meet Me in Las Vegas - as Peter Lorre (uncredited)

1956  Congo Crossing - Colonel John Miguel Orlando Arragas

1956  Around the World in Eighty Days - Japanese Steward on S.S. Carnatic 

1957  The Buster Keaton Story - Kurt Bergner 

1957  Silk Stockings - Brankov 

1957  The Story of Mankind - Nero 

1957  The Sad Sack - Abdul 

1957  Hell Ship Mutiny - Commissioner Lamoret. (With John Carradine.)

1959  The Big Circus - Skeeter

1960  Scent of Mystery (Smellovision!) - Smiley; re-released without Smellovision as Holiday in Spain

1961  Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Comm. Lucius Emery

1962  Tales of Terror: Montresor in “The Black Cat”

1962  Five Weeks in a Balloon - Ahmed

1963  The Raven - Dr. Adolphus Bedlo 

1964  The Comedy of Terrors - Felix Gillie 

1964  Muscle Beach Party - Mr. Strangdour (posthumous release) 

1964  The Patsy - Morgan Heywood (posthumous release). (Jerry Lewis.)

Start with the earliest movies you can find and work your way up the years so you can see how Peter Lorre absorbed, learned, and crafted his art.

YouTube and archive.org have a fair number of these as full-length movies.

Also in my opinion: Post Der Verlorene, you can see his health start to fail and his unhappiness grow, both with his illness and with the often lousy scripts. He was still working because he had to. 

See also:

Peter Lorre Television Show List

Peter Lorre Radio Show List

[madelyntwiss]

Wow!!!! The earliest ones are absolutely amazing!!!

[lorre-logic]

Anyways I give nicknames to some movies that Peter Lorre has starred in:

Strange Cargo - prison jesus

Arsenic and Old Lace - assassin grandmas

The boogie man will get you - pocket kitties

You can suggest some too!

[lorre-logic]

Forgot one

Der Verlorene - depresso espresso the movie

[madelyntwiss]

The raven- alcoholic bird and other guy 👀

[spongebob-connoisseur]

HE SINGS!!

[madelyntwiss]

Omg omg omg 🥺🥺🥺💪👀🐵👍👩‍🌾😣💪😏🤍🤍🐵

[madelyntwiss]

If you know you know

[surrender-souls]

Peter Lorre as Cornelius Leyden in The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)

[madelyntwiss]

His PJs tho 😭, I wanna have a sleepover, where we could swap manly stories, and I the morning I'm making waffles 💪😤

[angelamontoo]

Uhhh random baseless Headcanons for Peter Lorre characters

-Joel Cairo is surprisingly patient and considerate of serving staff in restaurants. He tips generously, rarely complains about small things being wrong with his order or being made to wait too long and makes a particular effort to be kind and reassuring to people who are obviously new to the job or had bad experiences with rude customers in the past. He also takes note of how people he eats with treat waiting staff-be they dates or business meals

-Professor Karl Fenningers real name is Moritz Veidt. Both Saliano and Mainwaring know it. Saliano is much more casual about calling him Moritz, while Mainwaring almost exclusively calls him Veidt or Mr Veidt, unless they're alone

-Louie Monteau bruises very easily, to the point that he has sizeable bruises on his body that he has no idea where they came from(I stole this one from me, I sleep too long on one side and it looks like a zombie bit my hip)

-Abbott tells people that he got the white streak in his hair in the same accident that resulted in the scar on his face, but of course, he just bleached it in because he thought it would look cool. I kinda want to push that one even farther and say he either gave himself the scar on purpose to look more dangerous or actually got it in a really stupid accident like tripping over dirty laundry and falling with a pair of scissors in his hand or something, but that might be a little too goofy

-It just so happens that Herman Einstein has a slight crush on Boris Karloff, particularly as Morgan in 'The old dark house'(yes ik that makes things very weird). I don't think he knowingly made Jonathan look like him or anything, but in his drunken state he might have done it subconsciously

-When Polo had his pet mouse in prison, he was so impressed with her ability to preform tricks that he had brief aspirations of going straight and making money by taken her from town to town preforming for captivated audiences

Uhhh that's all I got for now. Leave your Peter Lorre character HCs in the tags and notes. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you

[soapkaars]

I definitely agree that Abbott bleached his hair by himself! I also think he gave himself that scar, as back in the day it was very popular for upperclass men in Prussian society to give themselves scars on their cheek or forehead so it would appear as if they often engaged in fencing. And Abbott is certainly high class. I also think Abbott faked his death at the end. I just can’t imagine him dead, he’s too much my favourite character to have the film end so abruptly.

Gogol is a Russian emigré who fled Tsarist pogroms and worked his way up in Parisian society to where he is now (in the story): a celebrated and eccentric surgeon. This is also why he has a lot of foreign staff in his clinic (dr Wong is one but I’m imagining lots of people from the colonies - Algiers, Marocco, etc) - he wants to give foreign residents the same opportunities he had because he knows how hard it is.

Ugarte posed as a smuggler to give cover for the Moroccan resistance. He also had a very sweet boyfriend. I have zero proof for this.

Screw whatever Ian Fleming wrote, in my mind Le Chiffre originally came from an aristocratic family (a barony) who survived the revolution but lost all their possessions except a cigarette case that he keeps on him at all times. He kept a low profile all throughout Stalin’s regime, managed to get promoted in the KGB, and the moment Stalin died he became a fierce Kruschevite, gleefully purging all the former Stalinists in the organisation. This is one of the reasons why he is so notorious within the CIA and MI6

Dr Bedlo is much more competent wizard than everyone thinks he is. He could easily have changed himself back whenever he wanted (the potion is just for show and to gross out Erasmus). He just likes being a raven.

[angelamontoo]

Ohh big fan of these especially that further explanation on abbott. Very glad to have a justification for how he gave himself the scar

The Dr gogol one sounds interesting too, but I can't fully appreciate it since I still haven't seen Mad love

Also, I'm glad you had such an interesting and more sympathetic one for Ugarte cause I really wanted to include one for him, but couldn't think of one that sounded good for some reason

[madelyntwiss]

Dr Bedlo no longer wants to be with his wife (and would rather go be a wizard for the rest of his life), but he only stays with her for his son's sake. 🥺🤷‍♀️

[madelyntwiss]

Whatcha think?

[lorre-logic]

He looks so gross <3

[madelyntwiss]

#I want pick him up and hold him like a newborn

#thats weird....

[lorre-logic]

What are y'all talking about

[madelyntwiss]

Pick'n up and holding Dr Lorre like a baby 💪😤

[lorre-logic]

Peter Lorre fans with their fav peter parody

[madelyntwiss]

That is incredibly accurate 💪😤

[lorre-logic]

He looks so gross <3

[madelyntwiss]

#I want pick him up and hold him like a newborn

#thats weird....

[lorre-logic]

What are y'all talking about

[madelyntwiss]

Pick'n up and holding Dr Lorre like a baby 💪😤