Little Caesar: Biography of Edward G. Robinson - Softcover

Gansberg, Alan L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0450057798 ISBN 13: 9780450057793

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1985

Synopsis

In this fascinating biography, Alan L. Gansberg reveals the man behind the public face, his many memorable roles among more than 100 films, and his struggle to find steady work in Hollywood again.

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Review

With this authoritative biography, Alan L. Gansberg reaffirms his place in the very first rank of Hollywood historians. He not only gives us a portrait that captures the essence of Edward G. Robinson's electric screen personality, vulnerability and even his pain, but Mr. Gansberg also provides an important contextual framework for understanding the Hollywood in which Robinson lived and worked. Invaluable and indispensable for any student of the man and his period.--Lionel Chetwynd

Robinson was, of course, one of the screen's great actors...Gansberg, a superb writer, tells the stormy Robinson story in fascinating detail. It's difficult to fathom, but EGR never received a single Oscar nomination in his career and he dies before an honorary Academy Award he'd been voted could be handed to him in 1973. But, I suspect, he would have considered this fine-tuned telling of his story an even better reward than any shiny gold-plated statuette.--Robert Osborne "Hollywood Reporter "

...a loving portrait and tribute to a fine actor and true survivor. It will satisfy not only film buffs, but serious students of the modern American Jewish experience as well.--Jeffrey Kobrin "Jewish Book World "

I agreed to speak with Alan Gansberg about the blacklisting period in Hollywood because I believe there are stories of people that need to be told from a perspective of cultural history, not hysteria or anger. Alan has told Edward G. Robinson's story as a truly human one.--Robert Aldrich

Little Caesar is a big book: It charts not only the rise and fall of a great actor, but the panic and betrayal of American culture.--Donald Freed

"Little Caesar" is a big book: It charts not only the rise and fall of a great actor, but the panic and betrayal of American culture.--Donald Freed

A very young man walked into my office and said he wanted to talk about Eddie Robinson and the gangster movies from the 1930s. I thought, "What could this kid possibly know about Robinson and Little Caesar?" Well, an awful lot, as it turns out, and he's written a fine book about Robinson.--Mervyn LeRoy

As an historian of Hollywood, Alan L. Gansberg is cogent on not just the events, but the root and cultural ramifications of the events. Little Caesar: A Biography of Edward G. Robinson of tells us not just what drove a most heralded actor to greatness, but gives us one man's chilling view of the notorious blacklist which became the noose around Robinson's neck, and his career.--Alvin D. Hall

This is the definitive and authoritative biography of Robinson....Gansberg's engaging prose and his illuminating history provide the most complete and most elegant life of Robinson now available.--Henry L. Carrigan "Foreword Reviews "

About the Author

Alan L. Gansberg is an award-winning writer, producer, and director working in television, film, and documentary filmmaking. He is also a professor of film and president of the Faculty Association at Columbia College Hollywood in Tarzana, California. In addition, Gansberg teaches acting workshops and privately coaches actors.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0450057798
• ISBN 13: 9780450057793
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336