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Mervyn Leroy: LITTLE CAESAR (1930), 79 Min September 5, 2017 (XXXV:2) Mervyn LeRoy: LITTLE CAESAR (1930), 79 min. (The online version of this handout has color images and hot url links.) Selected in 2000 for the National Film Registry Directed by Mervyn LeRoy Written by W.R. Burnett (novel), Robert N. Lee (continuity), Francis Edward Faragoh (screen version & dialogue), Robert Lord (uncredited), Darryl F. Zanuck (uncredited) Produced by Hal B. Wallis, Darryl F. Zanuck Cinematography Tony Gaudio Film Editing Ray Curtiss Art Direction Anton Grot Set Decoration Ray Moyer Costume Design by Earl Luick Ferike Boros…Mrs. Passa (uncredited) Music Erno Rapee (general director), Leo F. Forbstein Kernan Cripps…Detective (uncredited) (conductor: Vitaphone Orchestra (uncredited), David George Daly…Machine-Gunner (uncredited) Mendoza (composer: title music, uncredited) Adolph Faylauer…New Year's Celebrant (uncredited) Ben Hendricks Jr….Kid Bean (uncredited) Cast Al Hill…Rico's 'Butler' (uncredited) Edward G. Robinson…Little Caesar - Alias 'Rico' Lucille La Verne…Ma Magdalena (uncredited) Douglas Fairbanks Jr….Joe Massara Gladys Lloyd…McClure Guest (uncredited) Glenda Farrell…Olga Stassoff Noel Madison…Killer Peppi (uncredited) William Collier Jr….Tony Passa Tom McGuire…Detective on Phone (uncredited) Sidney Blackmer…Big Boy Louis Natheaux…Hood (uncredited) Ralph Ince…Pete Montana Henry Sedley…Scabby (uncredited) Thomas E. Jackson…Flaherty Gay Sheridan…Nightclub Patron (uncredited) Stanley Fields…Sam Vettori Larry Steers…McClure Guest (uncredited) Maurice Black…Little Arnie Lorch Landers Stevens…Alvin McClure - Crime Commissioner George E. Stone…Otero (uncredited) Armand Kaliz…De Voss Mike Tellegen…Bodyguard (uncredited) Nicholas Bela…Ritz Colonna Robert Walker…Lorch Henchman (uncredited) Ernie Adams…Cashier (uncredited) Elmer Ballard…Undetermined Role (uncredited) LeRoy—LITTLE CAESAR—2 MERVYN LE ROY (b. October 15, 1900 in San he’d held for years and moved to Chicago where he found Francisco, California—d. September 13, 1987 in Beverly a job as a night-clerk in a seedy hotel. There, he found Hills, California) quit school at 13 to become a newsboy. himself associating with a cornucopia of characters “I saw life in the raw on the streets of San Francisco,” he straight from the mean streets of Chicago—prize-fighters, said. “I met the cops and the whores and the reporters and hoodlums, hustlers, and hobos. They inspired Little the bartenders and the Chinese and the fishermen and the Caesar (novel and subsequent film)—the latter’s shopkeepers. .When it came time for me to make overnight success landed him a job as a Hollywood motion pictures, I made movies that were real, because I screenwriter. Thematically Burnett was similar to knew first-hand how real Hammett and James M. Cain people behaved.” His first but his contrasting of the film was No Place to Go in corruption and corrosion of 1927; his last was as the city with the better life his uncredited director of John characters yearned for, Wayne’s hyperbolic The represented by the paradise of Green Berets (1968). Le the pastoral, was fresh and Roy’s career in show original. He portrayed business began in vaudeville; characters who have, for one then his movie-mogul cousin reason or another, fallen into Jesse Lasky hired him at a life of crime. Once sucked Famous Player-Lasky where into this life they've been he worked in wardrobe; then unable to climb out. They get as a film tinter; and finally as one last shot at salvation but an actor in minor roles. He the oppressive system closes wrangled a directing job at another studio and made in and denies redemption. Burnett inspired numerous other profitable simple entertainments until Little Caesar writers and Hollywood filmmakers, created a new (1930), which invented the ’30s gangster genre and made subgenre, and helped make film legends of Edward G. him a major director. His Gold Diggers of 1933 is Robinson, James Cagney, and Humphrey Bogart. Public generally regarded as one of the classic film musicals of Enemy (1931), They Live by Night (1948), White Heat the ‘30s. It includes some of Busby Berkeley’s most (1949), The Godfather (1972)—all are direct descendants spectacular production numbers. Some of the other 65 of Little Caesar, which was a lightly disguised biography films he directed were Mary, Mary (1963), Gypsy (1962), of Al Capone (Al himself planted a spy on the set while The FBI Story (1959), No Time for Sergeants (1958), The the film was being made). Edward G. Robinson said later Bad Seed (1956), Mister Roberts (1955), Rose Marie of his starring role that it “probably expressed a feeling (1954), Million Dollar Mermaid (1952), Quo Vadis? that millions of people had about their lives.” The (1951), Any Number Can Play (1949), Little Women Depression had indeed made Capone a sort of underdog (1949), The House I Live In (1945), Thirty Seconds Over hero, a challenger of the establishment, a poor boy who Tokyo (1944), Madame Curie (1943), They Won't Forget made it big, an individualist who lived by his own rules. (1937)—a great social issue film, also notable for the first Burnett may hold the record for having his novels made film appearance by his discovery Judy Turner, whose into film again (and again and again). Some examples; name he changed to Lana—I Am a Fugitive from a Chain The Asphalt Jungle (4 times with 4 different titles), High Gang (1932), and Two Seconds (1931). He produced 28 Sierra (4 times, 4 titles), and Saint Johnson (4 times, 2 films, one of which was The Wizard of Oz (1939) hence titles). Late in his career, he achieved huge popularity in the inscription on his tombstone in the Garden of Honor in Europe where his anti-hero ideology was enthusiastically Glendale’s Forest Lawn Cemetery: “Over the Rainbow.” embraced. In addition to Judy/Lana Turner, he is credited with discovering Clark Gable, Loretta Young, and Robert TONY GAUDIO (b. Gaetano Antonio Gaudio on Mitchum. Le Roy wanted to cast Gable as Rico’s dancing November 20, 1883—d. August 10, 1951, age 67, in buddy in Little Caesar but the studio bosses said no: his Burlingame, California) was born into a photographic ears were too big for movies. family: both his brother and father were portrait photographers in Italy. While he started out in the family W.R. BURNETT (b. William Riley Burnett on November business, he quickly transitioned into film with Napoleon 25, 1899 in Springfield, Ohio—d. April 25, 1982, age 82, Crossing the Alps in 1903, and he eventually shot in Santa Monica, California) left Ohio in 1927 by which hundreds of short subjects for Italian film companies time he'd written over a hundred short stories and five before moving to the US in 1906. From 1910-12 he novels, all unpublished. At 28, he left a civil service job became the chief of cinematographers at Independent LeRoy—LITTLE CAESAR—3 Moving Pictures, where he shot Mary Pickford's films for sensitive, quiet, artistic type when not performing. director Thomas H. Ince; he would later shoot The According to the March 31, 1941, issue of Time magazine, Gaucho (1927) for her husband, Douglas Fairbanks. Tony he and Melvyn Douglas bid $3,200 for the fedora hat that was at the forefront of technical innovation in his craft; in Franklin D. Roosevelt had worn during his three 1922 he invented a viewfinder for the new Mitchell successful campaigns for the presidency. They acquired camera. Tony also was an expert—as were many early the hat at a special Hollywood auction to benefit the cameramen—in the development of film, as most Motion Picture Relief Fund. Both Robinson and Douglas cinematographers took a hands-on approach to were identified as “loyal Democrats.” Robinson would development to ensure not just the quality of their images, later be “grey-listed” during the McCarthy Red Scare but to achieve effects in the lab. In the 1920s, he helped hysteria of the 1950s and have to make his living on stage. photograph Douglas Fairbanks’s The Mark of Zorro Although he almost made a comeback as he was (1920), pioneering the use of montage, and shot two-strip considered for the role of Don Vito Corleone in The Technicolor scenes for On with the Show! (1929) and Godfather (1972) before Marlon Brando was cast. Some General Crack (1929). The opinionated Tony Gaudio was of his other nearly 100 films are Soylent Green (1973), prone to clash with his directors, and Oscar-winning The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Cheyenne Autumn (1964), The director Lewis Milestone—who won his first Oscar on a Outrage (1964), The Prize (1963), Two Weeks in Another film lensed by Gaudio, Two Arabian Knights (1927)— Town (1962), The Ten Commandments (1956), Hell on nearly fired him from The Front Page (1931). The studio Frisco Bay (1955), House of Strangers (1949), Key Largo tolerated his temperament as he was a master of black and (1948), All My Sons (1948), The Night Has a Thousand white cinematography, winning six Academy Award Eyes (1948), The Stranger (1946), Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic nominations and one Oscar from 1930 through 1946, Bullet (1940), The Last Gangster (1937), and The Man winning Best Cinematography for Anthony Adverse With Two Faces (1934). Incredibly, never nominated for (1936). Gaudio was also a regular cameraman for Bette an Academy Award. He was awarded an Honorary Oscar Davis, who became the studio's greatest star during the two months after his death in 1973. 1930s. The cameraman originally gave Davis the glamor treatment, but by the time he shot Bordertown (1935), he DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR. (b. December 9, 1909 in didn't flinch when—shooting the film with a stark New York City, New York—d.
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