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===Radio=== From 1937 to 1942, Robinson starred as Steve Wilson, editor of the ''Illustrated Press'', in the newspaper drama ''[[Big Town]]''.<ref name="dunningota">{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22Big+Town,+crime+drama%22+%22Edward+G+Robinson%22&pg=PA88 |last=Dunning |first=John |author-link=John Dunning (detective fiction author) |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |pages=88–89 |edition=Revised |section=Big Town |access-date=2019-10-01}}</ref> He also portrayed hardboiled detective [[Sam Spade]] for a [[Lux Radio Theatre]] adaptation of ''[[The Maltese Falcon (novel)|The Maltese Falcon]]''. During the 1940s he performed on CBS Radio's "Cadena de las Américas" network broadcasts to South America in collaboration with [[Nelson Rockefeller]]'s [[cultural diplomacy]] program at the U.S. State Department's [[Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]].<ref name="books.google.com">[https://books.google.com/books?id=Qx00pQIkclMC&q=Edward+G.+Robinson&pg=PA166 ''Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda''] Deborah R. Vargas. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2012 p. 152-153 {{ISBN|978-0-8166-7316-2}} Edward G. Robbinson, OCIAA, CBS radio, Pan-americanism and Cadena de las Americas on google.books.com</ref>
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