#peter lorre song

[peterlorrefanpage]

Reblogging & updating because I attached the script to "Happy End", songs & all! Now you can read along as Peter would have.

Peter Lorre in "Happy End" (1929) + Script

Bertolt Brecht co-authored "Happy End," a musical comedy, with co-authored with Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1929.

Peter played Dr. Nakamura (the Governor), a sinister Oriental thug with karate chops and gun play.

Above: Rehearsal shot! From left: Erich Engel, Peter Lorre, Helene Weigel, Kurt Gerron (with cigarette), Carola Neher, and Oskar Homolka.

Peter with Helene Weigel as The Fly.

Peter also had a song! Here's "Song of the Big Shot":

"Happy End" opened the same day and hour as Dantons Tod, a four-hour production Peter Lorre was also in.

"According to Lorre, Brecht enabled him to overlap appearances as Dr. Nakamura in Happy End and Saint-Just in Dantons Tod by killing off the Governor in the first act. A waiting taxi, in which Lorre hastily changed from gangster garb to general’s uniform, sped him from the Schiffbauerdamm Theater to the Volksbühne am Bülowplatz. When Brecht learned that Lorre had time to return before the end of act 3, he resurrected the seemingly slain Nakamura. Peter had this line: 'You thought I was shot? No, I’m just a little bit injured.'" Source

Read the play and imagine Peter in the Governor / Dr. Nakamura role -> Here's a PDF of the script in English (with Peter's song as shown above, too).

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Peter Lorre -

The Comedy of Terrors (1963) dir. Jacques Tourneur

[frogmuse]

"Ce soir, en regardant les étoiles, j'ai vu dans le ciel quelque chose qui brille, brille, brille,

A la belle étoile, quelques étoiles filantes, et toi la bonne étoile autour de toutes ces figurantes,

Visible à l'œil nu si on veut il fallait ouvrir les yeux sur ce point lumineux"

Song by Matthieu Chedid alias "M"

[ghost-in-the-fog]

Minors DNI please.

I am old. I am ancient. I have not watched a new season of SpongeBob in Goddess knows how long. But I just scream laughed at a character that is a CLEAR caricature of Peter Lorre in fuckin' 2024. Oh. My. God. Whoever came up with this character, give them a bonus. This made me do the 'tism happy flappy thing. Like, this means a new generation is potentially going to be introduced to Peter.

AND JUST THE CHARACTER TO BEGIN WITH. HE'S SO SILLY. The fact that he doesn't appear to be a one off character either. He's permanent!

It makes me think of that line in 'Addicted to bad ideas,' the album based on Peter's life. "I wasn't always a monster, I was a saint, now forgotten...."

Nope. He wasn't forgotten. Had I realized there was a community of Peter Lorre fans here, when I was thirteen, I probably would have joined. It just makes me happy that there are people who get it. Because there wasn't in middle school, aside from a teacher who I bonded with.

Whoever created this character is definitely a fan of Peter too. Considering the character's last name of Laszlo. Laszlo was Peter's birth name. Someone definitely knows their stuff.

I gotta watch more of this goofball, oh my God.

[peterlorres21stcentury]

This is a rather silly question but...what kind of song could you picture certain lorre characters singing/vibing to

I always thought that some of his more lighthearted characters would enjoy listening to jazz and swing, while the darker and more grandiose ones would prefer opera and orchestral concerts. I don't know why I think this. We do witness Dr. Gogol listening to classical records in the operating room, so maybe that's where I get the association.

I don't really have any specific songs, sorry. It's just that the idea of Polo or Dr. Einstein cutely humming along to Big Band tunes on the radio really tickles me. :)

[faustiandevil]

Let the lawyers and my lovers sort it out after I'm gone Because never looking back means never having to say you're wrong A cab is waiting outside and I'm pretty sure I got the cash Let my lawyers and their lovers sort it out, I had a blast

Peter Lorre has been dead for 60 slutty slutty years.

[razorsadness]

Listen/purchase: Goodnight, Peter Lorre by Yula Be'eri

We were good for each other, you and I, you and I Good ideas are not supposed to crumble and die We were right for each other, you and I A lullaby on a silver screen, in black and white

[angelamontoo]

What are some of the most earwormy songs from Peter Lorres films to you guys?

'Ja die Polizei' from Was frauen Träumen seems to be a pretty popular one among Peter fans and 'As time goes by' is quite well liked in general, but what others do you like or get stuck in your head all the time?

I wouldn't say I like it perse, but I constantly have that damn Zulu warrior/zulu King song from Rope of sand stuck in my head. Especially that fucking "dup duppy dup duppy dup duh da da dup duppy dup duppy dup da da" bit. Drives me crazy

Also I really enjoy that weird, jaunty song from the opening of 'die Koffer des herrn O.F.' It seems like an appropriate song for Stix

And while we're on opening songs for films, AAOL has a pretty good one. I especially enjoy that the opening theme has the same tune as the hymn that the aunts are singing at Mr Hoskins(and Mr Spenalzos) funeral later aswell as that little happydale song Mortimer sings at the end of the film when he's "pretending" to be insane

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 11/12/2024

this one's a bit short. i am now thirty and still unemployed (ten months this week) ://// if you enjoy the tuesdayposts and are not maxed out on your charitable donations for other causes (american healthcare access, healthcare access in other places, war relief, any number of other good causes) i am going to be $300 short for december rent. here is my paypal.

listening

listening to a lot of pete seeger, for my health. there are about one zillion recordings of Old Man Atom, all ever so slightly different. it starts off as a perky gee-whiz-science! tune and continues frog marching the listener along in an increasingly jaunty manner. it's

Then the cartel crowd put on a show To turn back the clock on the UNO To get a corner on atoms and maybe extinguish Every darned atom that can't speak English Down with foreign-born atoms! America for American atoms! I hold this truth to be self-evident That all men may be cremated equal!

it's very depressing to listen to early anti-nuclear protest songs and realize they hold even more true today! song's a bop tho!

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reading

the feds nabbed someone allegedly related to the semi-dire Snowflake data leaks that have been ongoing throughout the year (Santander Bank, AT&T, Ticket Master, Neiman Marcus, etc).

this guy has been a real thorn in krebs' side for a year or so and participates in some of the worst corners of the internet, which explains the adversarial nature of the writeup. i read through the whole thing going "yeah this guy is Very annoying but why is krebs so mad at him" and then got to the bottom section about other activities. italicized OH moment in real life but bad.

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watching

continuing noirvember with The Maltese Falcon (1941, dir. Huston).

The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American film noir in which a San Francisco private detective deals with three unscrupulous adventurers, all seeking a jewel-encrusted falcon statuette.[3] Written and directed by John Huston[3] in his directorial debut, the film was based on the 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett and is a remake of the 1931 film of the same name.[4][5][6] It stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his femme fatale client, and as villains Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet.

i have two really snotty thoughts to get out of my brain: the modern letterboxed reviews like "i liked this but the homophobia ruined it" weak. all of you are WEAK.

and

i appreciate the work of the tumblrinas trying to queer this story in a more 2020s friendly way. however. sam spade canonically calls someone a slur for using cologne that he deems too feminine. the noir detective series you want is Philip Marlowe, who is at least homophobic in interesting and less physically violent ways.

anyway! gorgeous gorgeous movie. mary astor goes toe to fucking toe with bogey in every scene. a very frantic and frightened woman who is one jump ahead of the pathway crumbling behind her at all times. but she takes the jump and makes it! every time! except for the most important one!!!

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playing

having a normal one with 12 hours of powerwash simulator

new genshin update rapidly approacheth. there's a lot happening in this screenshot. accidentally careened right past this npc, with one bullet for the poor low-level slime in the background, floaty blue pet in tow. the npc wanted me to deliver something to her sister who is visible under the big tree in the background. i love early area spaghetti code.

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making

deep cleaned my house again bc i had people over for my birthday, which was a very lovely and very drunk evening of star wars on in the background while we played trivia. not how i expected to enter my thirties! i am not in the life circumstances i expected to be in my thirties, i do not have the life i expected to have in my thirties, etc. feeling a little maudlin and need to do crafts about it but also all the crafts in my home are not quite right!

[spongebob-connoisseur]

Guess what I got! The recording scripts for all of the episodes of Spongebob season 13!! Gang gang

I got it from some guy from YouTube. He said this was leaked on internet archive and Nick tried to scrub it clean off the interwebz. He managed to salvage some and he gave me a link. His account was gone before I had an opportunity to say thank you, so now I have it. I'm sharing it here because idgaf if my account gets taken down lol. But also no one checks tumblr anyways.

I made sure to print out the Slappy Daze recording script because idgaf about the other episodes tbh. I only care about my beloved Peter Lorre fish's day in the limelight <3 I put it in this plastic slip and keep it in a nice binder. It's my most prized possession besides Slappy's character sheet. I also have the Squidferatu script as well.

To be honest a lot of these scripts are pretty similar to the final product of the episode. There are some minor differences like Slappy wasn't originally in the script for There Will Be Grease. Instead it was supposed to be some nerdy fish asking if everything juice will make him sound more manly. Bless whoever snuck Slappy in there because you all remember me tweaking for a week when the episode came out because I was so happy Slappy got a part in the song lol.

Also the episode Upturn Girls was originally titled City Cetaceans.

Slappy Daze is pretty near identical to the final product tbh. Nothing really changed besides a few words. I am fascinated by the fact that the first draft is dated as being July 30th 2021. By that point I already fully and completely developed Slappy brain worms and was already considering watching Lorre's movies to get my fix cuz the airings of the Patrick show were frustrating. Ahh the good ol days <3

I also do believe Slippy (Slappy's female counterpart) was made for Slappy Daze originally though. The episode gives a physical description of Slippy which makes me think she just made for the moment. I think she was added to Mid-Season Finale in The Patrick Star Show episode afterwards but Mid-Season Finale aired first. Nickelodeon actually did mess up with this episode and released it on DVD before it officially aired. Now the pieces are coming together. This is only interesting to me lol.

Spongebob fans are such h8rs fr. Where else would you find THE original dreamy haired emo boy Cesare the Somnanbulist working as an assistant for the primary care physician fish Dr. Caligari? I would LOVE for Cesare to rid me of my allergies😤😤

Squidferatu actually has the most differences between the script and the final product. Plus plenty of interesting details. Squidferatu actually has two scripts, part one and part two.

The first and most important detail to me is the fact that Slappy is still named "Laszlo". You've seen Slappy's character sheet where it mentions he was formerly named "Laszlo" (obviously a reference to Peter Lorre's birth name Laszlo Löwenstein).

But in the Squidferatu scripts you can actually find the EXACT moment where his name changes from Laszlo to Slappy. It all has to do with one specific gag.

These both are the same scene. The left side is from Squidferatu part 1 and the right is Squidferatu part 2.

I do think they absolutely fumbled the name Laszlo. There are enough cartoon characters named Slappy. Laszlo is much much cuter and brings the Lorre reference full circle but oh well.

I also keep forgetting to mention but the villager in Squidferatu who begs Spongebob and Squidward not to go to the castle was intended to be the same villager in the 1931 Dracula who warns Renfield, who actually was based on a villager from the 1922 Nosferatu who warns Thomas Hutter. This character respawned in 3 different pieces of media. I think he's the true star of this episode lol.

There is also the fact that carriage driver in Squidferatu is confirmed to be Nosferatu! I feel like this fact is obvious enough if you're familiar with Dracula media (1922 Nosferatu, 1931 Dracula, or even just reading the book) the count is always the carriage driver duh

Also the fact that in this episode he hisses like a vampire, is strangely humanoid, and briefly has the Nosferatu™ eyebrows which fully gives it away. Unfortunately the folks on the SB wiki do not agree >:((

The first time I saw the carriage driver I said "ohh he kinda bad" and you know what? I'm not retracting my statement. He IS a baddie. I'm tired of lying to myself otherwise.

Anyways this caused me to come up with a headcanon that Nosferatu is broke and likely does not pay Slappy. I mean that explains why Nos has taken on shifts at the Krusty Krab, but also explains why Slappy is working 2 jobs in The Patrick Star Show. I imagine property taxes on a castle really drains a vampire's family fortune. I'm getting off topic.

There are some extra gags that didn't make it into the episode.

There's also the fact that we've been robbed of Erik from the Phantom of The Opera giving the audience a cute wink uwu

[peterlorrefanpage]

"You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre Contemplating a crime"

Sometimes (all the time) that lyric line in "The Year of the Cat" (Al Stewart) gets me so that it physically pains my heart. The pacing of it, the lilt before saying his name, is exquisite.

I want to see Peter Lorre strolling in a crowd, I want to be walking next to him, or coming up to him, or being seen by him like the girl in the song, in the silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain.

Sometimes I just want to hear his name spoken out loud so I can secretly thrill to it inside.

[peterlorrefanpage]

YESSSS

By now if Peter Lorre ISN'T added to a cast, the world just ain't right.

I’ve proven that I can be normal about media, now let me shatter that illusion by not being normal anymore and adding Peter Lorre to the cast

[quanatural]

Trying to quickly draw the feeling Peter Lorre gave me.

I just want to draw Peter Lorre's amber eyes.

And thanks to Spotify's PL song list, I listened to it very well when painting.

[nedison]

Peter Lorre - John Cale & Gary Lucas (Released 2024)

A treat for you for Halloween 2024. This is a song I recorded with John Cale in a studio in Manhattan some years ago, hitherto unreleased. We were friends and neighbors in the West Village for a long time (John was living literally right across the street for awhile) He invited me down to this demo studio and I brought him an original solo acoustic instrumental and a bunch of my guitars. He recorded my acoustic instrumental and then I did some guitar overdubs. He later added his rich voice, bass, keyboards, samples, and sampled percussion. I think it's fucking great. John's title and his lyrics. Written and performed by John Cale and Gary Lucas

[rustbeltjessie]

I scanned and uploaded the zine/program from Fiend in Wien: Peter Lorre’s 20th Century, the stage show by the World/Inferno Friendship Society which later became the album Addicted to Bad Ideas. It contains lyrics to all the songs, as well as notes about what was going on in Lorre’s life/the world around him during the time each song takes place. You can download the .pdf here.

(Note: the copy I have is a pretty low-quality Xerox, so even with some image correction on my part, the text on the inside and outside of the covers is a little difficult to read.)

[rose-of-pollux]

🎶✨When you get this, list 5 songs you like to listen to, publish and then send this ask to 10 of your favourite followers. (Positivity is cool)🎶✨

"For the Dreamers," from the Back to the Future musical. Roger Bart really delves into Doc's psyche and reveals his insecurities and vulnerabilities that we didn't really get to see until Part III of the original movie trilogy. Doc considers his life as unremarkable/a series of misses (this is in spite of him succeeding as part of the Manhattan Project, but that came with a boatload of guilt, so naturally, he considers that a failure), in spite of what he knows he can accomplish. And Marty is probably the first and only person he's admitted this to. But, yes, Roger portrays Doc as such a deep and multifaceted character, and he was absolutely 100% robbed at the Tony's. That should've been his win, GDI. :(

"I Want It All," by Queen. This song has always been my favorite of Queen's repertoire, and I can't really explain why. Maybe just the "live for yourself" message?

Paul Frees's cover of "Hey Jude," imitating Peter Lorre. A rare sentence? Yes. Worth a listen? Absolutely. It's everything you'd expect it to be, and then more as Paul progressively goes further and further off the rails with each passing second. Just trust me on this.

"Grim Grinning Ghosts" from The Haunted Mansion ride continues to live rent-free in my brain. And I need to emphasize that the Ghost Host's creepy monologue in the beginning is ALSO Paul Frees. My guy had the Range.

"It's My Life," by Bon Jovi. As much as I say the 80s has the best music--Bon Jovi's 80s hits among them--this one, from 2000, is my favorite--probably because it has a similar message/feel to Queen's "I Want It All."

Tagging @belphegor1982, @threephantomrey, @radarsteddybear, @wromwood and anyone else who wants to do this!