Remembering Edward G. Robinson on his birthday 🎂
📷 Harry Benson, 1967
"The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that's what they pay me for. The acting I do for free."
Allan Grant
Edward G. Robinson bows to restaurateur Mike Romanoff, 1958
Shots like this, of the *real* Hollywood, are one of the reasons Life photographers were so good. They had the access to, & trust of, the people that readers wanted to see, going about their daily lives.
Steve McQueen, Karl Malden & Edward G. Robinson in The Cincinnati Kind, 1965
"Gentlemen, this game is five-card stud poker. There's no limit. No string bets. You can check and raise. A dead man has one half-hour to raise his roll outside and get back in the game."
[deals]
Nickolas Muray turns a Pabst advertisement into a wonderful portrait of Edward G. Robinson, c. 1950. In the next tweet I'll reveal the name of the painting, from Robinson's own collection. It's on this list of 40 works he lent to @MuseumModernArt: moma.org/momaorg/shared…
Amongst the 40 works that Edward G. Robinson lent to MOMA in 1953 was Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's L'Italienne ou La Femme à la Manche Jaune (The Italian Woman, or the Woman with Yellow Sleeve), about 1870. It's now in the @NationalGallery in London.
Life Magazine's Yale Joel document's three paintings from Edward G. Robinson's collection: Rouault's Court Room Scene, Bonnard's Still Life & Vuillard's Interior, April 1957. Robinson had to sell his entire collection in 1956 to pay for a divorce; these were new purchases!
"We Hold These Truths" broadcast on December 15, 1941, the 150th anniversary of the United States Bill of Rights.
Birthday boy Edward G. Robinson is by the NBC mic. Lots of stars here!
See how many you can name; I'll tweet the caption -->
Orson Welles, Rudy Vallee, unknown, Bernard Herrmann, Edward G. Robinson, Bob Burns, James Stewart, Norman Corwin, Walter Brennan, Edward Arnold
Seated: Lionel Barrymore, Marjorie Main, Walter Huston
Produced in KNX studios, Hollywood
Edward G. Robinson at Sam Spiegel's New Year's Eve party, 1949.
📷 Peter Stackpole for Life magazine
I wondered at first if it was him, but he had that exact moustache in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1949 film House of Strangers
Edward G. Robinson in Paddy Chayevsky's The Middle of the Night. With Gena Rowlands, Effie Afton & Martin Balsam. A great photo by Gordon Parks for Life magazine, 1956
Coffee with Edward G. Robinson ☕️
📷 Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche, Cannes, 1950
Edward G. Robinson & Anatole Litvak at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival
📷 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1953
I don't think HCB normally did these kind of red carpet shots. His photograph is all about the shiny cars & the spectators behind the fence.
#PhoneCallFromPaul tweet on Edward G. Robinson's birthday
In Two Weeks in Another Town, MGM, 1962
Paul @holdengraber talks with the most interesting people
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@lithub @CallFromPaul
Mac Julian's photograph from the set of John Huston's Key Largo, 1948
With Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson & Claire Trevor. What a wonderful film!
Edward G. Robinson was one of the organizers of the anti-Nazi Committee of 56, calling for an economic boycott of Nazi Germany. Stars including Claude Rains, Henry Fonda, Joan Crawford, Gloria Stuart & John Garfield sign the manifesto, 1938
From Alan L. Gansberg's Little Caesar: A Biography of Edward G. Robinson
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#CommitteeOf56 #AntiNaziLeague
A Virgil Ross drawing of Bugs Bunny & Rocky (Edward G. Robinson).
From Friz Freleng's Racketeer Rabbit, 1946
Edward G. Robinson as Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov in The Brothers Karamazov, Guild Theater, 1927.
@nypl digital collection
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