Edward G. Robinson in the bathtub Key Largo 1948
by David Lee Guss
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Edward G. Robinson in the bathtub Key Largo 1948
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David Lee Guss
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Eddie's first scene in the picture as mobster Johnny Rocco. Director and co-screenwriter John Huston viewed him as a crustacean without his shell.
"The character of Johnny Rocco was modeled on Al Capone, who retired to Florida and died there of complications due to advanced syphilis a year before this film was produced. Screenwriter Richard Brooks later revealed he had also incorporated biographical details about another famous gangster, Lucky Luciano, into Rocco's character as well."
"Key Largo" would be the fourth and last time the Bogart's would appear in a motion picture together.
{on receiving second billing in "Key Largo."} "I didn't even argue. Why not second billing? At at 53 i was lucky to get any billing at all.
Let me tell you something about Bogie. On that set he gave it all to me. second billing or no, i got the star treatment because he insisted upon it - not in words but in action. when asked to come on the set, he would ask: "Is Mr. Robinson ready?"
He'd come to my trailer dressing room to get me." - Edward G. Robinson from his posthumous autobiography, 1973
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