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| Born | December 12, 1893 |
| Hometown | Bucharest, Romania |
| Net worth | $100 million |
| Height | 5'7" (1.70m) |
| Spouse | Jane Robinson (m 1958 - 1973) , Gladys Lloyd (m 1927 - 1956) |
| Children | Edward G. Robinson Jr. |
| Parents | Sarah Guttman Goldenberg , Morris Goldenberg |
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Hollywood Flashback: ‘Soylent Green’ Depicted an Overpopulated Planet With a Dark Secret
- This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue (click here to read more). In 1970, 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day. One of the more alarming predictions that day was from Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, who foresaw a future in which “population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small […]
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The Undying Glory of The Ten Commandments
There are three stages of watching Cecil B. DeMille’s epic of all epics The Ten Commandments. As a kid I watched it just because it was on. Sprawled out on the floor in front of the TV, I’d always fall asleep before Moses found his way out of the desert. Never once did I make it to the parting of the Red Sea. As a young adult, I found the movie a bit . . . cringe. Is the double-crossing Hebrew Dathan (Edward G. Robinson) from the Canarsie section of Cairo? Is there a worse actress than Anne Baxt
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Letters to the Editor: Republicans were worshipping a golden idol of Trump at CPAC. You can't make this stuff up
Like the unfaithful Israelites who worshipped a golden idol, Republican Christians had a golden Trump idol to worship at CPAC.
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My streaming gem: why you should watch The Stranger
Continuing our series of writers recommending under-appreciated films available to stream, a celebration of a nuanced Orson Welles noir from 1946In these lockdown times, we should all be scrambling to watch films that will help us to make sense of our out-of-life experience, no? Pandemic thrillers, online horrors, dystopian sci fi – these can all teach us what we need to know, right?Maybe, maybe not. When the real-life news is vastly more consequential than anything the cinema can cook up, surel
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Ann E. Todd, golden age child star of Intermezzo and more, dies at 88
Ann E. Todd, golden age child star of Intermezzo and more, dies at 88
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L.A. Theater Review: Andy Garcia in ‘Key Largo’
Would “Casablanca” make a good play? Guess what: It was first produced on stage as “Everybody Comes to Rick’s.” How about “Key Largo,” the black-and-white Bogie-and-Bacall vehicle in which a handful of misfits find themselves trapped in a South Florida hotel while a hurricane rages outside? In fact, the 1948 John Huston film was adapted […]
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Allene Roberts Dead: Actress In Nicholas Ray’s ‘Knock On Any Door’ Was 90
Allene Roberts, whose film career blossomed in the late 1940s and early 1950s opposite such stars as Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, and William Holden, has died. She passed Thursday in Huntsville, Alabama at age 90. Born on Sept. 1, 1928, in a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, Roberts beat out 85,000 others in a competition to […]
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Tim O’Connor Dies: Actor Best Known For ‘Peyton Place’ Was 90
Character actor Tim O’Connor, best known for his role as Elliot Carson in 1960s prime time soap <em>Peyton Place</em>, has died. He passed in his sleep on April 5 in his longtime home of Nevada City, California at age 90. O’Connor had a long career on stage and particularly television, where he had appearances in such iconic shows as <em>All in the Family, M*A*S*H, Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, General Hospital, Dynasty, </em>and <em> Star Trek.</em> Born in Chicago, his career spanned Broadway
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FBI, the President and Russia: Hollywood Blacklist in 1949 Has Parallels to D.C. Today
A political free-for-all involving the White House, the FBI, Congress, the media, and Russia — sound familiar? Those groups have dominated the headlines for the past month in the Donald Trump-James Comey battle, but they were also the players nearly 70 years ago, as Hollywood dealt with the blacklist. Back then, as now, there were... <a href="http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/fbi-hollywood-blacklist-huac-1202434517/" title="Read FBI, the President and Russia: Hollywood Blacklist in 1949 Has Para
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Best Restaurant on Each of the Florida Keys
The Florida Keys are famous for many reasons. Key Largo is where Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall battled mother nature and Edward G. Robinson in the 1948 gangster flick and James Bond literally broke into Ballast Key in ‘License to Kill.’ Considered ‘America’s Caribbean,’ the Keys are where...
