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gameraboy2 · 4 months
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Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet
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Vintage Poster - Casablanca
Warner Brothers (1942)
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citizenscreen · 2 months
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Sydney Greenstreet (December 27, 1879 – January 18, 1954)
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atomic-raunch · 4 months
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Sydney Greenstreet promotional still for Across the Pacific
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davidhudson · 3 months
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Sydney Greenstreet, December 27, 1879 - January 18, 1954.
With Humphrey Bogart in John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon (1941).
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drugballad · 3 months
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The Maltese Falcon (1941) dir. John Huston
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movie--posters · 10 months
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My best, and worst (blurst?) thought before I go to sleep:
So Peter Lorre always wanted the role of Napoleon. He would have played it on the stage in a production called Napoleon the First, had it not fallen through in 1936... and again in 1937... basically for reasons beyond his control, the poor man never got to realize his dream role.
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Le mot impossible n'est pas français
Anyway my absurd thought process went something like this:
current inexplicable obsession with all things Regency -> George IV and Napoleon were contemporaries -> if Peter Lorre had the chance to play Napoleon in historical fiction, who would be Prinny?
the natural answer... Sydney Greenstreet
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unrelated, yet somehow appropriate file photo
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smokygluvs · 2 months
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Sydney Hughes Greenstreet - 1879-1954
I've left this fine British actor, born in Sandwich, Kent, quite late but not because he comes low down my list of sexually attractive men. Quite the contrary.
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For me, everything about him (including his voice) screams dominant sexual predator (here in "The Maltese Falcon" - 1941). Incredibly his film acting career didn't begin until he was 61 (although he was a stage actor for some time before then). We clearly missed out on a lot.
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So let's look at his credentials, shall we?
Cigar smoker.
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2. Balding (and often quite threatening).
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3. Jowly.
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4. Hefty (in fact, somewhat fat, but not too much. Just big enough for a good cuddle).
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5. Leather glove wearer.
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6. Impeccably well dressed.
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7. Smouldering good looks.
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Did I mention cigar smoker?
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8. Looked fantastic in a hat.
All in all, the kind of man I would willingly have found myself held down by. I would willingly have done anything he wanted to please him.
Downsides: no facial hair (the occasional beard or moustache wouldn't have gone amiss); haven't found a picture with a pipe (but I'll keep looking); would like to see more of him in leather gloves, especially holding a pipe or cigar or with a revolver (reference his contemporary, the equally handsome Nigel Bruce). But that's about it, really.
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peterlorrefanpage · 19 days
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Imagine Peter Lorre in "Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse"
...for, alas, we can only imagine it, thanks to a screaming fit by a bloviating arse.
From "The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre" by Stephen D. Youngkin:
In late 1943 Warner Bros. decided that the hugely popular Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) might enjoy a repeat success. The studio assigned producer Wolfgang Reinhardt and writers Alvah Bessie and German émigré Leonhard Frank to update the story of a doctor whose research into the physiological reactions of criminals leads him into a life of crime. The availability of Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet gave the writers an idea for an “interesting (and pathetic)” twist. As Clitterhouse, Greenstreet would be in love with a young girl who treats him 'like a dog,' but feigns affection in exchange for expensive gifts. "We added some new characters and cast Peter Lorre in the role of a feebleminded gangster called Willie the Weeper," wrote Bessie in his autobiography, Inquisition into Eden, "who was constantly trying to snitch Greenstreet’s whisky, so that Greenstreet would whack him on the back of the hand with a ruler and roar, ‘Whisky’s not for children!’—and Willie would weep." Five or six weeks later, they showed their treatment to Reinhardt, who gave it an enthusiastic nod. Audiences would never remember where they had seen it all before. At a story conference, however, Steve Trilling [casting director-turned-personal assistant-to-Jack-Warner] threw a screaming fit. "Greenstreet in love with a young girl?" he raged. "That’s disgusting!" Bessie explained they were going for the pathos in the situation, but Trilling said audiences would laugh it off the screen. "Now look! We’re going to remake The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse," he exploded. "It was a very successful picture. It made a lot of money. . . . I want exactly the same picture—word for word!" Bessie and Frank went back to work, writing a treatment that differed only slightly from the original screenplay. Trilling was livid. If he had wanted the same picture, he screamed, he would have re-released the original picture. "I don’t want to make a picture about a crazy man!" he finally bellowed. "Forget it!" He assigned the project to two other writers, who resurrected Bessie and Frank’s original treatment, only to have it shelved for good.
. . . I've had bosses like Trilling. They are insufferable, incurable, and should be given a Very Important Job away from actual people.
And poor Sydney Greenstreet by proxy. Why couldn't he play a character in love with a woman younger than himself? (I am hopefully correctly translating 1940s parlance of "young girl".) He'd play it impeccably and with dignity despite the pathos.
To say nothing of what dear Peter Lorre would have infused Willie the Weeper with! I'm picturing aspects of Galy Gay, Louie Montreau, Polo, Colonel Gimpy...and flashes of the manic General, and perhaps even the Baron, just a bit, just enough to show Willie is a survivor, and isn't all he seems.
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noirgasmweetheart · 5 months
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"Ugarte, what the devil are you doing in this ghastly place?"
"...awaiting my sentence....? Contemplating my short miserable existence...?"
"There's no time for that nonsense. Come along, I've a job for you."
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gameraboy2 · 1 year
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Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet
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frenchcurious · 1 year
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Bonne année ! Meilleurs voeux ! - Happy New Year ! Best wishes ! - Frohes neues Jahr ! - Feliz año nuevo a todos ! - Auguri !.  
Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, 1940s. - source Another Vintage Point.
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citizenscreen · 3 months
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Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolfe on NBC Radio’s “The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe (1950–51)
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gatutor · 1 year
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Alexis Smith-Humphrey Bogart-Sydney Greenstreet "Retorno al abismo" (Conflict) 1945, de Curtis Bernhardt.
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flight-to-mars · 1 year
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Friends Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, having fun (1942).
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