The Lost One by Youngkin Stephen D.; Youngkin Stephen D. D.;
Author:Youngkin, Stephen D.; Youngkin, Stephen D. D.; [Youngkin, Stephen D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 792304
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2005-01-17T16:00:00+00:00
The studio’s publicity department concocted a 150-word Star Story for newspapers desperate for film filler. In a piece titled “Lorre Is So Loathsome,” Hartnell is quoted as saying: “Gives me the creeps, he does. Rolls his eyes and purrs like a Cheshire cat at a chap, slips a knife into him, then goes home to cry his eyes out…. He’s a monster, not a man…. Take him away! I can’t stand him.”
“Oh yes, he wears his bow ties, and his nice smart suits—but he’s crude,” Lorre reportedly replied in “Hartnell Is Too Harsh.” “Now he says these awful things…. Me—always so gentle, so understanding, so friendly…. Perhaps we can find a quiet corner where I can talk to him, reason with him…. It all makes me feel so weary, and so sad, so sad.”
A publicist stirred the pot—“Sounds like trouble brewing between Elstree and Hollywood’s favourite screen menaces”—and then assured viewers that “in real life Peter Lorre and William Hartnell are quite good friends, and mutual admirers.”
Lorre was back in Wigger’s Kurheim by mid-December. He now slipped in and out as it suited him. “It was the type of sanatorium where all the patients were not closely guarded,” said Barbara. “Karen, for example, used it more like a convenient hotel.” Lorre likely stayed on, not because he could afford to do so, but because he could not face the final reckoning. Karen confided to Barbara that the sanitarium never received “a penny” from the impoverished couple. “I know she borrowed from a good friend of mine in Munich,” said Barbara, “and never paid it back. I felt so bad about it, but she was so charming and could talk anybody into loaning her money.”
By now, Peter and Karen’s marriage was as empty as their pocketbook. Barbara characterized it as “a cool, correct relationship. I couldn’t see any love between them or anything.” Unbeknownst to Peter, Karen, who kept a single, cheaper room on an upper floor for nearly nine months, briefly carried on an affair with a young physician there.
The marriage over, Karen left Wigger’s to look up the Bechstein clan in Brauback. Soon after she checked out, Peter telephoned Barbara and asked her to stop by. “He just wanted to let me know that if he would be walking over a bridge following Karen,” related Barbara, “and that if she would jump off that bridge, he wouldn’t even bother trying to keep her from committing suicide. That was all he wanted and then he excused himself. He was an odd man, but very interesting, very highly intelligent.”
In an undated letter meant “for your eyes only” (which he asked her to tear up), Lorre reluctantly told Elisabeth Hauptmann of their breakup: “The parting itself should have been done a long time ago and it’s o.k. with me.” He added that “this kind of separation makes me vomit,” and admitted that an earlier attempt to end the marriage had failed. “The cast in this dusty Strindberg drama is so nauseating, as though I were to play a waiter.
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