The Lost One

by Stephen D. Youngkin

  439 “It’s always the … I am stamped”: Ebinger, “Blandine—,” p. 169.

  439 “I think toward … to do more”: Sanford, interview.

  439 “There was a … himself much earlier”: Kanter, interview.

  440 “Because everybody calls … hard to pronounce”: Transcript, pp. 4–5.

  440 “I am without … relationship to others”: Joseph Finnigan, “Defends Bad Name: Lorre Protected from Pseudo-Lorre,” Newark Evening News, Nov. 19, 1963.

  440 “Have you any … to believe that”: Deposition, Sept. 10, 1963, In the Matter of the Application of Eugene Weingand, for Change of Name, Petitioner, Case No. 819718, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles, pp. 14, 16–17.

  441 “Well, I want … Perhaps”: ibid., pp. 26–27.

  442 “Anyone ever call … (No response)”: Transcript, pp. 4–5.

  442 “Be seated, please … it to somebody”: ibid., 53, 57.

  442 “considered box-office value”: ibid., p. 35.

  442 “exclusive”: ibid., p. 49.

  442 “to cash in … by Peter Lorre”: ibid., p. 69.

  443 “in permanently restraining … of Peter Lorre”: Weingand v. Lorre, 231 Cal. App. 2d 289, 41 Cal. Rptr. 778 (Dist. Ct. App. 1964), p. 294.

  443 “No, he has … Alcohol”: Transcript, p. 27.

  443 “the surviving son … of the petitioner”: Petition, Nov. 23, 1971, In the Matter of the Application of Eugene Weingand, aka Peter Lorre, Jr. for Change of Name, Case No. 16990, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles, pp. 1–2.

  444 “One of the … an adult picture”: Arkoff, interview, Jan. 29, 1981.

  444 “younger edition of Winston Churchill”: Hy Gardner, interview with Peter Lorre.

  444 “but I would … can’t speak English”: Lorre, interview by Gardner.

  444 “servant in the … the Transylvanian navy”: Richard Matheson, quoted in McGee, Faster and Furiouser, p. 215.

  444 “all four of them”: Matheson, interview, Dec. 6, 1994.

  444 “They’re all called … very funny script”: Richard Matheson, quoted in Weaver, Science Fiction Stars, p. 312.

  445 “popping off”: Matheson, interview, Dec. 6, 1994.

  445 “It was a … a pleasant murderer”: Haller, interview.

  445 “in which Peter … take Peter’s place”: Bennett to author, April 20, 1982.

  445 “To be really … interpreted it right”: Thirer, “Lorre: ‘Time Not to Make Money.”’

  446 “For Peter … there was nothing”: Jameson, interview.

  446 “There was no … attention to Jerry”: Wynn, interview.

  446 “a scene thief beyond compare”: Jerry Lewis, The Total Film-Maker (New York: Random House, 1971), p. 121.

  446 “If he could … of the film”: C. Lorre, interview, Oct. 17, 1980.

  446 “Peter was afraid … his fellow actors”: Zastupnevich, interview.

  447 “He just couldn’t … sorry for him”: Kerschner, interview.

  447 “His health was … very troubled way”: Meadow, interview.

  447 “Basically, Peter was … aware of it”: J. Silverstone, interview.

  447 “of someone utterly … a long time”: Greenberg, “Peter Lorre.”

  447 “He didn’t like … wall and die”: Meadow, interview.

  448 “Peter got more … into the ground”: Parry, interview.

  448 “A great actor … of the man”: Peter Lorre file, MHL AMPAS.

  450 “I guess that’s … you for coming”: Price, interview, Jan. 30, 1974.

  450 “Peter never got … career and life”: Haller, interview.

  450 “He always had … real artistic film”: Lester Salkow, interview.

  EPILOGUE

  Epigraph: Otto Fenichel, “On Acting,” Psychoanalytic Quarterly 15 (1946): 150.

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