Name 10 Facts About This Actor

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2.    In 1949 the British Broadcasting Corp., advised parents to send their children to bed before Lorre’s image appeared on their television screens in a horror role.

“Mr. Lorre will be seen contorting his face in close-up and we fear that children watching the performance in a darkened room would find it too alarming,” the BBC said.

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3.  Co-starred with the Fat Man in several films AKA Sidney Greenstreet, one of which was The Maltese Falcon where he played the effeminate/gay Joel Cairo.

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4.)  He was born in Hungary.

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5.   Part of the "Holmby Hills Rat Pack" headed by Humphrey Bogart.  

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6.  The Man Who Knew Too Much was Lorre's first movie in English.  He had to learn his lines phonetically.  

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7) Hazel Court said that during the filming of The Raven (1963), Lorre was constantly pinching her behind, she was not bothered by it though, laughingly calling him a "little devil".

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8.   At the 1956 funeral of Bela Lugosi, Lorre turned to Vincent Price and whispered: "Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart, just in case?"

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9.  Played Le Chiffre in the 1954 tv version of Casino Royale.  It was the first on-screen adaptation of a James Bond book.

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10.  Played detective Mr. Moto in 8 movies from 1937-1939.  “If I had wanted to remain one character,” he once said, “I could still be playing Mr. Moto.”

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Thread is open 

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Let's try  Deborah Kerr.

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1.  Kerr holds the record for the most Best Actress nominations without a win with six.  In 1994, she was given an honorary Oscar.

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2. Kerr won the Golden Globe for Best Actress, Comedy or Musical for The King and I; and won three Best Actress awards from the New York Film Critics, for The Sundowners, Heaven Knows Mr. Allison; and Black Narcissus/I See a Dark Stranger.

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3.)  Even though she, by many, is considered an English actress, she was actually born in Scotland.

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4).    Regardless of the spelling,  one pronounces her name like a well known mode of transportation.

 

 

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5.)  She starred on Broadway and in  Hollywood in "Tea and Sympathy".

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6) Appeared in three movies with Stewart Granger: King Solomon's Mines (1950), The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) and Young Bess (1953).

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7.   Kerr was cast against type in "From Here to Eternity" as the adulterous army wife who has an affair with Burt Lancaster.   This role let her break away from proper ladylike roles and let audiences see her in a sexier light.  

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8 - Robert Mitchum liked working with Kerr so much on Heaven Knows,  Mr. Allison, that went he was cast for the Sundowners (1960),  he also agreed to give her top billing, joking to the production team that they could "design a twenty-four-foot sign of me bowing to her if you like".

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9.)  She co-starred three times with Cary Grant.

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10)  In 1958 she had one of her most interesting roles as Sibyl Railton-Bell,  the repressed daughter in Separate Tables.

 

 

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Next?

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Ann Dvorak:

1) Dvorak was born Anna McKim in New York City on August 2, 1911 to silent film actress Anna Lehr and actor/director Edwin McKim. 

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2.  Initially under contract to Howard Hughes who then sold her contract to Warner Brothers, Dvorak later accused him of " selling her down the river. "

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3.)  Her final movie was "The Secret of Convict Lake"