One day, as Edward G. Robinson, star of several gangster pictures, came out of a movie theater, an elderly woman holding a little boy by the hand, came up to him, asked if he was the actor who “played ‘Little Caesar’ and so many other bad men,” and when he said he was, exclaimed: “Well, I’m glad I have this opportunity of telling you to your face what a bad influence your pictures have had on our young people.”
”What makes you think so?” asked Robinson.
”I ought to know,” she said firmly. “I’ve taken my grandchild to see Little Caesar eight times.”
Source:
Boller, Paul F., and Ronald L. Davis. "Theaters and Audiences." Hollywood Anecdotes. New York: Morrow, 1987. 402. Print.
Original Source Listed:
Edward G. Robinson, ‘The Movies, the Actor, and the Public Morals,” in William Perlman, ed., The Movies on Trial (N.Y.: Macmillan, 1936) p. 30.
Further Reading:
Emanuel Goldenberg / Edward G. Robinson
[Little Caesar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Caesar_(film)
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