Music
Tempestuous singer Inger Lorre has been fired by the Los Angeles hard-rock band the Nymphs after she refused to go on stage at a recent concert.
July 4, 1992
Obituaries
Actor Peter Lorre, the Carpathian mountain boy who became a professional ogre, sleepy-voiced comedian, and bon vivant, died Monday of an apparent stroke in his tiny Hollywood apartment.
March 24, 1964
Archives
Continueing to mine memorable comedic moments in TV and film for its Home Video Comedy Classics, MCA/Universal has added The Jack Benny Program and Francis the Talking Mule to its collection.
June 12, 1994
Movies
Long before she became a redhead and a TV superstar on “I Love Lucy,” a young Lucille Ball dutifully posed for a studio portrait in an Irish maid’s outfit complete with leprechaun to celebrate St.
Nov. 21, 2015
Peter Lorre, in a role that made him a star, plays Japanese detective Mr. Moto with a menacing undercurrent.
Aug. 13, 2006
Entertainment & Arts
Hollywood lore is rife with accounts of outlandish, undocumented occurrences, and among the urban legends of Tinseltown, what transpired the night John Barrymore died retains a mythic pull.
Oct. 22, 2015
“M”--the 1931 classic German chiller that launched Peter Lorre--may be remade . . . with a modern twist.
Aug. 28, 1988
PANDAEMONIUM. By Leslie Epstein . St. Martin’s Press: 398 pp., $24.95
June 8, 1997
In the late ‘40s, Peter Lorre, harassed by the House Un-American Activities Committee and suffering a decline in his career, returned to Germany where a journalist friend told him a true story that became the basis for the one film he directed, “The Lost One” (“Der Verlorene”).
Oct. 7, 1985
Fast Fame
June 25, 2012