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...Bandello's novella, Juliet was 18 years old. In Brooke's poem, which was Shakespeare's immediate source, she became 16. The playwright, however, for reasons never convincingly argued, makes Juliet a couple weeks short of her fourteenth birthday, and underlines her age several times. Romeo is some years older, but still an immature teenager...
Little Caesar. 1930. An early tragic epic of the gangster world with Edward G. Robinson magnificent as star-crossed hood Rico Bandello...
...Little Ceaser. Edward G. Robinson's Rico Bandello gave rise to an entire generation of gangsters, thugs, and hoodlums, but none was ever superior to the original. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is the handsome protagonist, Channel...
Italian Matteo Bandello, who himself had not invented the tale but had merely written it down. No one knows now, and it is a dreadful thought, but there may actually have been an unfortunate duchess of Amalfi...
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