Humphrey Bogart Edward G. Robinson Bullets or Ballots 1936-2016
by David Lee Guss
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Humphrey Bogart Edward G. Robinson Bullets or Ballots 1936-2016
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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The first motion picture the actors teamed up in.
"This film was made as part of Warner Bros.' response to the Production Code Administration and the Legion of Decency, which had condemned the studio's previous gangster movies with Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney as glorifying the criminal life. In response, Warners had both actors make crime movies with their characters on the right side of the law, with Cagney playing an FBI agent in 'G' Men (1935) and Robinson playing an undercover cop here."
"The film was so successful at the box office that it gave Edward G. Robinson the clout to negotiate a new contract with Warner Bros., which gave him rights of story and script approval and allowed him to make one movie per year for another studio."
Eddie plowed his additional earnings into assembling a world class art collection.
"Bogie had a manner, a personality - yes, an immense talent - that has made him almost immortal. Working with him, i think I understand it better than his fans. For all that toughness, insolence, braggadocio, and contempt (and those were always part of the characters he played, though they were not entirely within Bogart the man). I always felt sorry for him - sorry that he imposed upon himself the facade of the character with which he had become identified." - Edward G. Robinson from his posthumous autobiography, 1973
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