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10.00" x 7.50"
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2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
15.50" x 13.00"
Peter Lorre M number 4 1931 Framed Print
by David Lee Guss
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Peter Lorre M number 4 1931 framed print by David Lee Guss. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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The actor became much better known after director Fritz Lang cast him as child killer Hans Beckert in M (1931), a film reputedly derived from the... more
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Artist's Description
"The actor became much better known after director Fritz Lang cast him as child killer Hans Beckert in M (1931), a film reputedly derived from the Peter K�rten case. Lang said that he had Lorre in mind while working on the script and did not give him a screen test because he was already convinced that Lorre was perfect for the part. He believed that the actor gave his best performance in M and that it was among the most distinguished in film history Sharon Packer observed that Lorre played the loner, [and] schizotypal murderer, with raspy voice, bulging eyes, and emotive acting (a holdover from the silent screen) [which] always make him memorable."
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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Elijah Knight
Congratulations
David Lee Guss replied:
One of the more memorable screen performances