Edward G. Robinson with part of his gang and ill-gotten loot Key Largo 1948-2016
by David Lee Guss
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Edward G. Robinson with part of his gang and ill-gotten loot Key Largo 1948-2016
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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In 1948 it was illegal to show real paper money on the screen. Thomas Gomez is on the left with Marc Lawrence in the middle. I met Lawrence at a Cinecon Convention held in the venerable Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood in 1975.
Lawrence was a friend of legendary mob boss Lucky Luciano. He would visit Luciano in Italy where the mobster had been deported following his prison term for running a prostitution ring. Whenever Lawrence would see the mobster, Lucky would always ask for him to talk in an 'exaggerated' New York accent, which Lawrence would do. The reason was that Luciano missed New York and meeting New Yorkers and hearing their accents would always make him feel better.
Lawrence's pitted face and menacing look typecast him as a hoodlum. And he would pay yet another in two years in Huston's "The Asphalt Jungle."
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