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Redfield Arts Audio Presents Hollywood! On the Air! Peter Lorre in THE BLACK CAT Don't Forget to SUBSCRIBE! For more great audio visit http://www.RedfieldArtsAudio.com Welcome to “Hollywood! On the Air!”, where we present for your listening pleasure an audio treasure from radio’s Golden Broadcasting era. Great audio drama with some of the great actors of Hollywood and radio’s Golden Age of storytelling. Originally airing as a replacement show for one season in the summer and fall of 1947, the audio drama anthology series “Mystery in the Air” starred Peter Lorre in a drama that would allow him to go insane, or criminally insane, every week. Peter Lorre began is acting career in the stage in Vienna, and he became internationally famous after starring as the serial child murderer in Fritz Lang’s great film “M”, made in 1931. As the Nazi’s rose to power in Germany, Lorre, an Hungarian-born actor of Jewish decent, made his way to America in 1933. A powerhouse, a charismatic and perceptive actor, he quickly became typecast to play the villain in films and radio, but his filmography is much broader than what he is often remembered for. He starred in “The Man Who Knew Too Much” for Hitchcock in 1934, made in Great Britain. Lorre starred in eight “Mr. Moto” films for poverty row studio Monogram in the 1940s, but for the major studios like Warner Bros. Lorre starred in “Casablanca”, “Arsenic and Old Lace” for Columbia, and “20,000 Leagues under the Sea” for Walt Disney. Peter Lorre was the first on-screen Bond villain, playing Le Chiffre in the 1954 American television adaptation of “Casino Royale”. He appeared in several Roger Corman films in the 1960s, and Lorre died at the young age of 59, on March 23rd, 1964. Peter Lorre was popular on television and radio in the 1950s and 1960s. An actor of great intensity and great energy, and of sly wit and humor, as you will hear in this episode from the Golden Age of Radio Drama, 1947’s “The Black Cat”, adapted from the story by Edgar Allan Poe. And that voice! The marvelous, distinctive voice of Peter Lorre…Ah! They had voices then. Supported in these weekly shows by fine actors such as Agnes Moorhead, and announcer Harry Morgan.