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Barbara Stanwyck & Pinky Lee Lady of Burlesque (1943), directed by William A. Wellman choreography by Danny Dare
Peter Lorre in "Young Doctor Lorre" (Radio)
On Rudy Vallee's "The Drene Show" (June 20, 1946).
Peter comes in after 12:25. "Young Doctor Lorre" starts at 20:54.
Source
Plot: Rudy sings "Yesterday," "Blue Champagne," and "Let's Put Out The Lights and Go To Sleep." Pinky switches Rudy's scripts for the program. The cast presents a medical drama titled, "Young Doctor Lorre."
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Peter Lorre: "For years I've had to play a killer in pictures. Everywhere I go, people avoid me. It's driving me crazy. I want to live a normal life. I want people to like me, I don't want to frighten them." Rudy Vallee: "Why do you want to change your character? I've seen your pictures, and as one star to another, I think you're great in those tough parts." Peter Lorre: "Thank you. That's high praise coming from an actor, but coming from you, it doesn't mean a thing."
So far I've dug up 2 1/2 of the draft script:
Here's Rudy Vallee and then Pinky Lee, to put faces to names. (I am a longtime fan of Rudy & his gorgeous singing voice.)
"Still Life"
All right. To wikipedia.
In September 1955, Lee collapsed on camera during a live show due to illness.[11] His normal antics were so energetic that apparently the cameraman and the show’s director assumed the fall an ad lib part of his performance. The “Peanut Gallery”, an audience usually composed almost entirely of pre-adolescent children who were coached by a staff member, continued their enthusiastic cheering and applause from the on-stage bleachers. After as much as ten seconds of writhing by the stricken Lee, the camera abruptly panned to the still-cheering audience. The following afternoons Pinky Lee was not present. This effectively ended his leading role on the show, which continued without him until June 9, 1956.[5]
Rumors that he had died of a heart attack, prompted by the incident, persisted for decades. Occasionally, newspaper items mentioned the “late” Lee – even though he was performing at a dinner theater in the same city as one of the reporting newspapers.[12][13][14] The incident also spawned rumors that Lee had been institutionalized after going insane on live television.
Also: In a first-season episode of Night Court, Dan Fielding remarks that Judge Stone’s age is one of the things he never wonders about, “like is Pinky Lee still alive?” Broadcast in 1984, the answer at the time was “yes”. That would move him from the popular claim on Elvis to the popular claim on Abe Vigoda. (Abe Vigoda, famous at this Tumblr page here as Bill’s brother).
The change in hair color is interesting. Perhaps make sure everyone knows this is not Betty. Why the dropped subtitle, to reappear later, I can not say.
And you know he’s just going to eat the fruit, right, showing no interest in the painting?
Let's Read Peanuts (Only 45 more years to go!) – May 1955
There are lots of great strips I just don't have room to comment on. I strongly encourage everybody to read the full month at the official GoComics page. Today's month starts HERE.
May 2, 1955
She’s correct, just not in a literal sense.
May 10, 1955
He’s into it.
May 17, 1955
“I meant ~constructive~ criticism!”
“Oh... You you would be more successful if you were less stupid.”
May 19, 1955
No, this is the correct move. Eating the clover gives a smaller stat boost than using it as an accessory but the bonus is permanent.
May 20, 1955
Let the kindergartner write an editorial you cowards! It can’t be worse than what you let the adults submit!
May 22, 1955
God I love it when he draws backgrounds.
May 30, 1955
God damnit. Guess we're doing this thing again...
~googles~
Okay, so ‘Pinky’ Lee was a children’s TV performer who hosted a popular kids show in the 50s called The Pinky Lee Show. It was your classic collection of skits, jokes, stunts, dance numbers, and hard-selling preschoolers on sponsored products and services. Basically, a black and white version of the Krusty the Clown show from The Simpsons. You can see an episode of it here.
Personally I find it to be an weird mix of obnoxious and off-putting and gave up on trying to get through it only a few minutes in. Kids apparently loved it though and it won some awards.
As an interesting side-note The Pinky Lee Show was one of the main inspirations for PeeWee’s Playhouse, another kid's show that was incredibly popular despite being insufferable. You can really see the similarities if you watch them back to back.
Anyway, Pinky’s run on the show would end about 4 months after this strip was published after having some sort of medical episode on-set which forced him to step down. Sad but hardly surprising considering the guy was either on some serious drugs or pushing himself WAY too hard.
The trouble with Pinky Lee’s irritating humor
THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, June 25, 1955
Vintage Magazine - Hit! (Jan1953)
