Edward G. Robinson

Edward G. Robinson tuvo su participación en Hollywood hace mucho tiempo, aunque su importancia lo mantiene como una de las estrellas de la época dorada. Robinson se oponía a Hitler y colaboró en el esfuerzo norteamericano cuando pudo hacerlo. También tuvo su período crítico por culpa del Red Scare y formó parte de las listas negras de Hollywood. Más abajo Billy Crystal opina sobre Edward G. Robinson. En vocabulario: Greylisting

"At Ellis Island I was born again," he wrote. "Life for me began when I was 10 years old."

Edward G. Robinson was born in 1893. He appeared in 30 Broadway plays and more than 100 films during a 50-year career and is best remembered for his tough-guy roles as gangsters in such films as Little Caesar and Key Largo.

During the 1950s, he was called to testify at the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Red Scare, but was cleared of any deliberate Communist involvement.

Robinson was born as Emanuel Goldenberg to a Yiddish-speaking Romanian Jewish family in Bucharest.

Robinson como ganster en Little Caesar, 1931

After one of his brothers was attacked by an anti-semitic mob, the family decided to emigrate to the United States. Robinson arrived in New York City in 1904. "At Ellis Island I was born again," he wrote. "Life for me began when I was 10 years old."

He served in the United States Navy during World War I.

Robinson found it hard to get work after his greylisting. His career rehabilitation received a boost in 1954, when noted anti-communist director Cecil B. DeMille cast him in The Ten Commandments.

During the 1930s, Robinson was an outspoken public critic of fascism and Nazism, and donated more than $250,000 to 850 political and charitable groups between 1939 and 1949.

In early July 1944, less than a month after the Invasion of Normandy by Allied forces, Robinson traveled to Normandy to entertain the troops. After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, while not a supporter of Communism, he appeared at Soviet war relief rallies to give moral aid to America's new ally, which he said could join "together in their hatred of Hitlerism."

Robinson died in 1973.

Para saber

A "Red Scare" is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state.

The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States which are referred to by this name. The First Red Scare, which occurred immediately after World War I, revolved around a perceived threat from the American labor movement, anarchist revolution and political radicalism. The Second Red Scare, which occurred immediately after World War II, was preoccupied with the perception that national or foreign communists were infiltrating or subverting U.S. society and the federal government.

Vocabulario

Greylisting (employment) - A form of blacklisting for lesser offenses In employment. Blacklisting refers to denying people employment. Blacklisting may be done by states as well as by private companies.

Writer Dalton Trumbo was barred from openly working in Hollywood for over a dozen years. Actor John Garfield was one of the more famous Hollywood performers to have been blacklisted by major American film studios.

Billy Crystal on Edward G. Robinson

Actor Billy Crystal tells us why he loves Edward G. Robinson

Edward G. Robinson was an enormous influence to me. I just loved the guy. First of all, he looked like all my relatives and second of all he had that voice (imitating him). The tough little guy. You can name any movie and he´s great… Edward G. Robinson is a tremendous hero… somehow the audience didn´t think he was going to win because he´s playing opposite Steve McQueen and you don´t bit Steve McQueen

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