Little Caesar (film) portrayals that stretched up to 1968's "Never a Dull Moment". Robinson occasionally parodied his "Little Caesar" gangster persona, as in the 1933 film "The Little Giant." The box office triumph of "Little Caesar" also spawned the production of several successful gangster films, many of which were also made by Warner Brothers. This is an example of Hollywood self-censorship during the pre-Code era: in the novel the line reads "Mother of God, is this the end of Rico?", and a take was filmed with Robinson saying it verbatim. However, the studio worried that some state and local censors would insist that
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