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
Edward G. Robinson Jr. his autobiography, ""My Father, My Son"", written with William Dufty. Robinson was a close friend and sometime lover of Marilyn Monroe, and was the prototype for the character 'Eddie G.' in "Blonde" (2001), the TV mini-series about Monroe, based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates. Robinson appeared in some films and numerous television series during the 1950s and early 1970s. He appeared briefly in "Some Like It Hot" (1959), as the murderer of George Raft's '"Spats" Colombo' character. He was the last-billed of the sixteen credited cast members in the film. He also appeared in shows like "Wagon Train",