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A Brief History of Hollywood

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1931 – Warner Bros. attracts a new kind of actor: not the perfect, glorious movie idols of the silent era, but more unconventional, down-and-dirty theater actors. Stage stars James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson make their debuts in the bullet-ridden crime tales THE PUBLIC ENEMY and LITTLE CAESAR. The gangster film gains popularity among the disillusioned audiences of the Great Depression: the merits of honest hard work and careful financial planning had crashed along with the stock market.

THE PUBLIC ENEMY: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTXJyo5Vry4
LITTLE CAESAR: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js6mgxdFLE4