By the way, Bob, that's not my caption; it's the guy who contributed the photo. It is not as you might reasonably surmise, a reference by me to one of our simian-brained colleagues.
That caption comes from the book the photo was taken from, "Fritz Lang. His Life and Work. Photographs and Documents" -- from a 2001 retrospective at Filmmuseum Berlin. From the book: "Lang had a weakness for stuffed monkeys...Lang had a rather touchingly tender, sentimentally boyish relationship to Peter the Monkey: he took him with him on trips, put him to bed, dressed him up and posed for pictures with him." The book has one other photo of Fritz reading a book, along with Peter, also reading a book, in front of table piled high with books. (titles of which I wish I could decipher!) --Galen Young
Ah. Thanks for that info, Adrian/Galen. Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember reading in Patrick McGilligan's biography that, in his later years, Lang would often sit in his home in Hollywood watching sitcoms on television with a stuffed animal in his lap; though I seem to remember it being a Rooster, not a chimp.
I'm sure the whole menagerie got some TV time in with the old master, not just lucky Pierre (if you can call that luck).
Thanks again for the contributions and the information!
This reminds me of the fact I once read that Einstein's favourite tv programme was a kids' puppet series called Time for Beany. Once he cut short a lecture, saying: "Gentlemen, it's time!" "Time for what, professor?" "Time for Beany!"
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So he had a pet Monkey? Is this widely known?
It's a toy, isn't it?
Curious Fritz!
Indeed.
By the way, Bob, that's not my caption; it's the guy who contributed the photo. It is not as you might reasonably surmise, a reference by me to one of our simian-brained colleagues.
That's how easy it is (check your email)
I think that's a stuffed animal Lang has, at least for the purposes of this photograph, confused with a for-real Chimp.
Testify & Tom - the chimp is resting, he looks tired. Could be that he's elderly, an OAP chimp.
That's the way it looks to me.
That caption comes from the book the photo was taken from, "Fritz Lang. His Life and Work. Photographs and Documents" -- from a 2001 retrospective at Filmmuseum Berlin. From the book: "Lang had a weakness for stuffed monkeys...Lang had a rather touchingly tender, sentimentally boyish relationship to Peter the Monkey: he took him with him on trips, put him to bed, dressed him up and posed for pictures with him." The book has one other photo of Fritz reading a book, along with Peter, also reading a book, in front of table piled high with books. (titles of which I wish I could decipher!) --Galen Young
Ah. Thanks for that info, Adrian/Galen. Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember reading in Patrick McGilligan's biography that, in his later years, Lang would often sit in his home in Hollywood watching sitcoms on television with a stuffed animal in his lap; though I seem to remember it being a Rooster, not a chimp.
I'm sure the whole menagerie got some TV time in with the old master, not just lucky Pierre (if you can call that luck).
Thanks again for the contributions and the information!
This reminds me of the fact I once read that Einstein's favourite tv programme was a kids' puppet series called Time for Beany. Once he cut short a lecture, saying:
"Gentlemen, it's time!"
"Time for what, professor?"
"Time for Beany!"
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