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Angelo "The Gentle Don" Bruno (born Angelo Annaloro; May 21, 1910 – March 21, 1980) was a Sicilian-American mobster who ran the Philadelphia crime family for two decades. Bruno gained his nickname and reputation due to his preference for conciliation over violence.
Born in Villalba, Sicily, Bruno emigrated to the United States in his teens and settled in Philadelphia. The son of a grocer, Bruno was a close associate of New York Gambino crime family boss Carlo Gambino. Bruno was a cousin of mobster John Simone. Bruno dropped the name Annaloro and replaced it with his paternal grandmother's maiden name, Bruno.
Bruno was married to Sue Maranca and had two children. Bruno owned an extermination company in Trenton, New Jersey, an aluminum products company in Hialeah, Florida, and a share in the Plaza Hotel in Havana, Cuba. Bruno's first arrest was in 1928 for reckless driving. Subsequent arrests included firearms violations, operating an illicit alcohol still, illegal gambling, and receiving stolen property.
Actors: Roger Dunn (actor), Dwight D. Eisenhower (actor), Larry Day (actor), Antonio Cantafora (actor), James Bradford (actor), Mark Camacho (actor), Frank Crudele (actor), Tony Calabretta (actor), Jean Pierre Bergeron (actor), Carl Alacchi (actor), Zachary Bennett (actor), Vince Corazza (actor), Philip Bosco (actor), Frank Fontaine (actor), Pierfrancesco Favino (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Mike Lally (actor), Creighton Hale (actor), Fred Kelsey (actor), Larry J. Blake (actor), Ray Bennett (actor), Kit Guard (actor), Paul Birch (actor), Don Beddoe (actor), Philip Carey (actor), Henry Corden (actor), Jerome Cowan (actor), Monte Blue (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Richard Garrick (actor), Frank Marlowe (actor),
Plot: Gambler John Merrick (Frank Lovejoy) is the head of a bookie syndicate and the newspaper is crusading against him and the rackets, primarily because Merrick is in love with Felice Stuart (Joan Weldon), daughter of the newspaper publisher who can not break up the romance through persuasion. A senate committee investigating crime gets involved, the racketeers, other than Merrick who is a "nice guy", strike back and kill a reporter, and Merrick's own son, Jerry Merrick (Robert Arthur), commits suicide. Merrick, to his own disadvantage, helps bring down the syndicate. Since it is in black-and-white-, deals with crime and was an American-made film, some will call it "film noir" since that seems to be the current guidelines for putting a film in that, at one time limited-and-defined genre. It ain't, and neither are most of the others currently so classified.
Keywords: gamblingThis one I learned from a TV-commercial
I took your beers right out of the fridge
Heated them up in the microwave oven
Then put them back to their place when you came home
My name is Angela Brown
You know how much I hate all little creatures
Still you grow up some bees at our place
One of them got itself under my tea mug
And oops it went right down the drain!