On this day in movie history - Little Caesar (1931)

Little Caesar

directed by Mervyn LeRoy,

written by Francis Edward Faragoh, Robert N. Lee, Robert Lord and Darryl F. Zanuck,

based on the novel by W. R. Burnett,

was released in the United States on January 25, 1931.

Music by Erno Rapee, Leo F. Forbstein and David Mendoza.

Cast:

Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell, William Collier Jr., Sidney Blackmer, Ralph Ince, Stanley Fields, Maurice Black, George E. Stone, Armand Kaliz, Nicholas Bela, Ernie Adams, Elmer Ballard, Ferike Boros, Kernan Cripps, George Daly, Adolph Faylauer, Ben Hendricks Jr., Al Hill, Lucille La Verne, Gladys Lloyd, Noel Madison, Tom McGuire, Louis Natheaux, Henry Sedley, Larry Steers, Landers Stevens, Mike Tellegen.

Born on this day – Audrey Wells:

 

Writer

Director

Producer

January 25, 1960 – October 4, 2018

Credits:

Over the Moon (2020); Modern Love (2019); The Hate U Give (2018); A Dog's Purpose (2017); Nike: The Black Mamba (2010); The Game Plan (2007); Shall We Dance (2004); Under the Tuscan Sun (2003); George of the Jungle 2 (2003); The Kid (2000); Guinevere (1999); George of the Jungle (1997); The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996).

 

Born on this day – Tobe Hooper:

 

Director

Writer

Producer

January 25, 1943 – August 26, 2017

Born on this day – Bill Hickman:

Actor

Stunt driver

Stunt coordinator

January 25, 1921 – February 24, 1986

Credits:

Bullitt: Steve McQueen's Commitment to Reality (1998); Capricorn One (1977); The Hindenburg (1975); Electra Glide in Blue (1973); Charley and the Angel (1973); The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973); The Anatomy of a Chase: Behind the Scenes of the Filming of 'the Seven-Ups' (1973); The Seven-Ups (1973); Shaft (1973); Madigan (1973); Rage (1972); What's Up, Doc? (1972); Hickey & Boggs (1972); The War Between Men and Women (1972); Diamonds Are Forever (1971); Vanishing Point (1971); They Call It Murder (1971); The French Connection (1971); Columbo (1971); The Bold Ones: The Senator (1971); Zabriskie Point (1970); The F.B.I. (1966–1970); Patton (1970); Daughter of the Mind (1969); The Love Bug (1969); The Wrecking Crew (1968); Bullitt (1968); The Flim-Flam Man (1967); Gunsmoke (1967); Batman (1967); Judd for the Defense (1967); Point Blank (1967); The Felony Squad (1967); Bonanza (1963–1967); The Invaders (1967); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1967); A Fine Madness (1966); Get Smart (1966); Jericho (1966); The Rounders (1966); The Fugitive (1966); Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1966); Branded (1965–1966); How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965); The Great Race (1965); Honey West (1965); The Outer Limits (1964); The Fugitive (1963); The Twilight Zone (1963); Temple Houston (1963); Take Her, She's Mine (1963); Johnny Cool (1963); Toys in the Attic (1963); The Eleventh Hour (1963); It Happened at the World's Fair (1963); California (1963); Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962); Outlaws (1962); The Andy Griffith Show (1962); Cain's Hundred (1962); The Lawless Years (1959–1961); The Deputy (1961); Klondike (1960–1961); Lock Up (1960); Bat Masterson (1960); Not for Hire (1959–1960); Tombstone Territory (1960); Home from the Hill (1960); Peter Gunn (1959); Mr. Lucky (1959); The Big Operator (1959); Don't Give Up the Ship (1959); The Beat Generation (1959); The Thin Man (1957–1959); Have Gun - Will Travel (1959); Ask Any Girl (1959); The Mating Game (1959); Perry Mason (1959); Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958); The Perfect Furlough (1958); Houseboat (1958); High School Confidential! (1958); Attack of the Puppet People (1958); Adventures of Superman (1958); Maverick (1958); Kiss Them for Me (1957); Jailhouse Rock (1957); Raintree County (1957); The Helen Morgan Story (1957); Appointment with a Shadow (1957); The Joker Is Wild (1957); An Affair to Remember (1957); Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957); Highway Patrol (1957); The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956); He Laughed Last (1956); Four Star Playhouse (1956); Outside the Law (1956); The Benny Goodman Story (1956); Rebel Without a Cause (1955); The Square Jungle (1955); Love Me or Leave Me (1955); The Far Horizons (1955); High Society (1955); A Bullet for Joey (1955); Phffft (1954); Woman's World (1954); Tobor the Great (1954); Living It Up (1954); Public Defender (1954); Lucky Me (1954); Loophole (1954); Kiss Me Kate (1953); Jennifer (1953); Half a Hero (1953); Latin Lovers (1953); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Code Two (1953); My Pal Gus (1952); Because You're Mine (1952); Love Is Better Than Ever (1952); Phone Call from a Stranger (1952); The Red Badge of Courage (1951); Fixed Bayonets! (1951); The Unknown Man (1951); Angels in the Outfield (1951); Iron Man (1951); Meet Me After the Show (1951); To Please a Lady (1950); Tulsa (1949); It Happened in Brooklyn (1947); The Beginning or the End (1947); See Here, Private Hargrove (1944); Salute to the Marines (1943).

Born on this day – Carlotta Monti:

 

Actress

Writer

January 25, 1907 – December 8, 1993

Carlotta Monti (right) with W.C. Fields (left)

Credits:

W.C. Fields and Me (1976); To Please a Lady (1950); Crisis (1950); The Doctor and the Girl (1949); He Walked by Night (1948); Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941); The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940); Boom Town (1940); Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936); Hell-Ship Morgan (1936); Night Cargo (1936); Bonnie Scotland (1935); Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935); Marie Galante (1934); Tarzan the Fearless (1933); Deadwood Pass (1933); Kiss of Araby (1933); King Kong (1933); In Old California (1929); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925).

Book:
W. C. Fields & Me (1971).

Born on this day – Sleepy John Estes:

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

January 25, 1899 – June 5, 1977

 

Born on this day – Virginia Woolf:

Writer

January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941

Credits:

40 Model Essays (2005); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944); A Letter to a Young Poet (2021); A Moment's Liberty (1990); A Room of One's Own (1928); A Society (1921); A World of Fiction (1983); A Writer's Diary (1953); Alaska Stories (1995); Between the Acts (1941); Books & Portraits (1978); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Chicago Stories (1993); Classic Women's Short Stories (2020); Collected Short Stories (2019); Contemporary Writers (1965); Famous and Curious Animal Stories (1989); Fathers: A Literary Anthology (2011); Florida Stories (1993); Flush (1933); Granite and Rainbow (1958); Identity And Self Respect (1952); Into the London Fog (2020); Jacob's Room (1922); Kew Gardens (1919); Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell (2018); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Magical Realist Fiction (1984); Melymbrosia (1981); Moment And Other Essays (1948); Moments of Being (1976); Monday or Tuesday (1921); Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (1929); Mrs. Dalloway (1925); Mrs. Dalloway's Party (1973); New Orleans Stories (1992); Night and Day (1919); Nurse Lugton's Curtain (1991); Freshwater (1935); On Being Ill (1930); On Not Knowing Greek (1925); Orlando (1928); Paper Darts (1991); Passionate Apprentice (1990); Reviewing (1939); Roger Fry: A Biography (1940); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Selected Letters (1990); Southwest Stories (1993); Stories to Get You Through the Night (2010); Street Haunting (2022); Texas Stories (1995); That Kind of Woman: Stories from the Left Bank and Beyond (1991); The Common Reader (1925); The Common Reader: Second Series (1932); The Complete Shorter Fiction (1993); The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942); The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Five (1984); The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four (1982); The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One (1977); The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three (1980); 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die (2019); The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two (1978); The Essays, Vol. 1 (1967); The Essays, Vol. 2 (1967); The Essays, Vol. 3 (1967); The Essays, Vol. 4 (1967); The Essays, Vol. 5 (1986); The Essays, Vol. 6 (2011); The Lady in the Looking Glass (1960); The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 1 (1975); The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2 (1976); The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3 (1977); The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4 (1978); The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 5 (1979); The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 6 (1980); The London Scene (1931); The Mark On The Wall & Other Short Fiction (1917); The Mark on the Wall (1917); The Platform of Time (2007); The Voyage Out (1915); The Waves (1931); The Widow and the Parrot (1985); The Years (1937); Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid (1941); Three Guineas (1938); To the Lighthouse (1927); Travels With Virginia Woolf (1993); Two Stories (1917); Walter Sickert (1978); Witches' Brew (1984); Women and Fiction (1975); Women and Writing (1979); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Jhumpa Lahiri, on writing:

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.
Style and personality are irrelevant.
They can be formal or casual.
They can be tall or short or fat or thin.
They can obey the rules or break them.
But they need to contain a charge.
A live current, which shocks and illuminates.
 
- Jhumpa Lahiri.