IMDB Trailer for Little Caesar

Edward G. Robinson didn’t really enjoy playing a gangster and hated the sound of gunfire. That posed problems for director Mervyn LeRoy during the filming of Little Caesar (1931).

“Every time he squeezed the trigger,” LeRoy said, “he would screw up his eyes. This happened take after take.”

“In the end we had to tape up his eyelids to make sure it wouldn’t show.”
—The Warner Brothers, Michael Freeland, St. Martin’s Press, 1983