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YAY my 2nd Peter Lorre and my 60th deviation
again my beloved Mr Moto
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here [link] is the first one
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You know that that's Mr. Moto, not Dr. Einstein, right?
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Heh, good take on Peter Lorre. 
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I love how you straightened Moto's teeth in this. Most people thing he wore fake dentures for this role, but they were his own teeth; he had dental problems at the time.
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thanks, i hated the teeth hey were tood bad for my taste...
are you sure bout that dentures issue? do you have a source?
cause before moto he had straight teeth and afterwards he had too, and i seem to remember reading somewhere that he said the dentures were a pain in the gluteus
*pets her moto dvd boxes*
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Actually, yes, I do have a number of sources; of course, that requires me get out of bed to find them, lol. (I rather not because I just threw up my dinner tonight due to food poisoning.) Some Lorre books and articles have misinformed them as "false teeth", which was a common practice at the time. Asians were depicted two ways in Hollywood -- Bucktooth and Fang.
You know, years ago I bought bootlegs of the Moto films because, at the time, they were banned for being un-PC and I never thought they would come on DVD -- let alone VHS. Out comes the Moto DVD box sets, argh! My bootlegs have terrible quality, so I bought the DVDs to see the difference. WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!! I need to get the second volume now...
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nah you don't have to check right now.... get well first
tis quite amazing tho that dentists back then were so good already in restoring teeth cause i don't think he was wearing dentures after mr moto.
i guess he was suffering from some sort of disease or it was the drug abuse but honestly i'm not that good informed when it comes to his biography.
the moto boxes were a revalation for me i also knew only the bad bootlegs. when i first watched the box set i was ready to set up an altar
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Found it! This is from the biography, The Lost One: "The real face behind the mask had undergone a remarkable improvement since You'll Find Out. In 1936, Fox had insisted on a "special provision" in the actor's contract stating, "Artist agreese, at his own expense, to have such dental work fone as may be necessary in the opinion of producer." The studio even had reserved the right to cancel the agreement for noncompliance. Lorre had finally replaced his rotten, protruding, splayed teeth with dentures. "He had terrible pyorrhea when we played together," recalled Leon Ames, recalling their work on the Moto films. "His teeth were shot and he hadn't gotten them fixed yet, and it was just awful to even have him breathe in the same room with you." Makeup departments hardly could have furished him with a set of teeth more becoming his screen roles as repulsive, hideous monsters. Dentures incalculably improved his looks and softened his screen image. In The Face Behind the Mask, they warmed his boyish smile. He was not less macabre, more suavely villainous; less mad, more smoothly menacing."
Poor Peter.
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wow that's really interesting!
"the lost one" is still on my to buy list... but you don't want to see the to read pile which comes before the to buy list.... *sigh*
but that's really great input
the book just moved up a position
and now i know why i always have to think of shane mcgowan when i watch the moto films
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It's really a great read. My favourite parts always seem consist mainly of him doing practical jokes. I knew he had a great sense of humour but I never realised how impish he was, like on the set of the "Maltese Falcon", he would come out of Mary Astor's dressing room and zip up his fly in front of a group of producers. Or when he snuck a mircophone in the office of the producer (or was it a writer?), known to take advantage of aspiring starlets, and play out the entire thing over the intercom. What a jokester!
Shane MacGowan? How so?
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hahahaa that's great! i only read on imdb that at bela lugosis funeral, upon seeing the dead lugosi dressed in his dracula costume he nodged vince price and asked him if they should drive a stake through hist heart just to make sure
but being a practical joger sorta suits him (suting you? hihihi)
he had that impish grin in his eyes
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Ironically, Peter told that to Vincent Price -- lol -- who officated at Peter's funeral.
There's an anedote where he used to walk around the studio lot and go up to pretty women and his pick-up line was "Do you think you could get used to my size?" 
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hahahahaa
that's a good one *giggles*
as far as i know peter and vince were very good friends... andd had a difference in hight of about 40 centimeters *giggle*
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Peter's about an inch taller than me -- people are always taller than me, grrr!
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i best keep my size to myself right now
let'S just say i could easily check for dandruff
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congrats on the 60 ;D
i love his expression xDD haha
and again the shading is perfect.
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thanks
yeah i'm a tad proud myself, seems i finally make some progress
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good again! I wonder how the acrylic version will be!
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no idea am a bit scared to try out.... but i guess it'll be even more difficult on the car door thingie
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