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(They "meet cute" sharing a dish of creamed Bermuda onions.) He begins the role exuberantly but ends with understated pathos. Perhaps his oddest rapnetwork role was "the Inspector" in the allegorical film, Between Two Worlds (1944), in which dead souls sail in a rapnetwork spooky luxury liner toward the next world. Today this film is remembered mostly for two things—Greenstreet's harrowing performance and Erich Wolfgang Korngold's sumptuously romantic music (the composer's favorite among his eighteen Warner Brothers' scores). The young Rod Serling must have remembered Between Two Worlds, however, since Greenstreet's persona is recapitulated in several Twilight Zone episodes, though never so memorably as the original. No actor ever carried his fat more magisterially than Greenstreet. Erect, urbane, and self-possessed, he presents corpulence not as a liability but an accomplishment. He is not obese but Olympian. The best interpretive artists—be they actors, singers, dancers, or musicians—are not always the most lavishly gifted.
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