Edward G. Robinson and George E. Stone Little Caesar 1931 color added 2015
by David Lee Guss
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Edward G. Robinson and George E. Stone Little Caesar 1931 color added 2015
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David Lee Guss
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"Little Caesar is a 1931 Warner Bros. crime film directed by Mervyn LeRoy, and starring Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Glenda Farrell. The film tells the story of a hoodlum who ascends the ranks of organized crime until he reaches its upper echelons. The story was adapted from the novel of the same name by William R. Burnett. Little Caesar was Robinson's breakthrough role and immediately made him a major film star. The film is often listed as one of the first full-fledged gangster films, and continues to be well received by critics.
Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; December 12, 1893 - January 26, 1973) was a Romanian-born American actor. A popular star on stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age, he appeared in 40 Broadway plays and more than 100 films during a 50-year career. He is best remembered for his tough-guy roles as a gangster, such as his star-making film Little Caesar and Key Largo.
During the 1930s and 1940s, he was an outspoken public critic of fascism and Nazism which was then growing in Europe. His activism included contributing over $250,000 to more than 850 organizations involved in war relief, along with cultural, educational and religious groups. During the 1950s, he was called to testify at the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Red Scare, but was cleared of any Communist involvement."
"George E. Stone was born Gerschon Lichtenstein in Łodź, Congress Poland into a Jewish family. And, so as Gerschon Lichtenstein, he sailed from the Port Hamburg, Germany, as a steerage passenger on board the S/S President Grant, which arrived at the Port of New York on May 29, 1913; at Ellis Island, he passed federal immigrant inspection with his two sisters and a brother . As an actor, Stone's slight build and very expressive face first attracted attention in the 1927 silent-film Seventh Heaven, where he played the local street thug The Sewer Rat. Originally billed as Georgie Stone, he made a successful transition to talking pictures in Warner Bros.' Tenderloin, speaking in a pleasant, slightly nasal tenor. Stone was then typecast in streetwise roles, often playing a Runyonesque mobster or a gangland boss's assistant. He was best known as Rico Bandello's right-hand man Otero in the gangster classic Little Caesar (1931)."
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