Little Caesar (film) released, author Burnett apparently drew the same conclusion about the screen version of the character. Having written Rico as explicitly heterosexual in his novel, Burnett wrote a letter of complaint to the film's producers about the conversion of the character to gay in the screen adaptation. According to Warner Bros records the film earned $647,000 domestically and $105,000 foreign. Little Caesar (film) Little Caesar is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film distributed by Warner Brothers, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, and starring Edward G. Robinson, Glenda Farrell, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The film tells the story of a hoodlum who ascends
Dewey Robinson film when he played a waiter in George Cukor's "Tarnished Lady", starring Tallulah Bankhead. That performance did not receive screen credit, and this was often the case over Robinson's career, although he was in the billed main cast in "Murder on the Campus" (1934), "Navy Secrets" (1939) and "There Goes Kelly" (1945). Because of his size and physical presence, Robinson worked often during periods when gangster movies were the rage. Notable early roles for Robinson include a polo-playing hood in "Little Giant" (1933) starring Edward G. Robinson, a supervisor of slaves in Eddie Cantor's "Roman Scandals" that same year, and