Editing Salvatore Maranzano (section)

==In popular culture==
*The 1931 movie ''[[Little Caesar (film)|Little Caesar]]'', starring [[Edward G. Robinson]] was, in part, based on Salvatore Maranzano.<ref name=Guillen/>
*Maranzano plays a small fictionalized role in [[Mario Puzo]]'s ''[[The Godfather (novel)|The Godfather]]''. Maranzano refused [[Don Vito Corleone]]'s proposal to share his monopoly on gambling in New York City, in exchange for police and political contacts and expansion into [[Brooklyn]] and [[the Bronx]]. Maranzano arranged for two of [[Al Capone]]'s gunmen to come to New York and finish Corleone. Through his contacts in Chicago, Corleone found out, and sent [[Luca Brasi]] to murder the gunmen. With Capone out of the picture, the great mob war of 1933 began in earnest. Desperate for peace, Maranzano agreed to a sit down in a restaurant in Brooklyn, where he was killed by [[Salvatore Tessio]], a capo in the [[Corleone family]]. Afterwards, Corleone took over Maranzano's organization and held a meeting to reorganize the American Mafia, something that the real-life Maranzano did.
*In the 1972 film ''[[The Valachi Papers (film)|The Valachi Papers]]'', Maranzano is portrayed by [[Joseph Wiseman]].
*In the 1981 [[NBC]] mini-series ''[[The Gangster Chronicles]]'', Maranzano is portrayed by [[Joseph Mascolo]].
*In the 1990 film ''[[Mobsters (film)|Mobsters]]'', Maranzano is portrayed by [[Michael Gambon]], but is known as "Faranzano". His death is also different in this movie, as "Faranzano" was thrown out of a building's window in the film instead.
*In the 1999 film ''[[Lansky (1999 film)|Lansky]]'', Maranzano is portrayed by Ron Gilbert.
*In the 1999 [[Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime]] film ''Bonanno: A Godfather's Story'', Maranzano is portrayed by [[Edward James Olmos]].
*In the 2011 ''[[Torchwood]]'' episode "[[Immortal Sins]]", Maranzano is portrayed by Cris D'Annunzio.
*In the fifth season of ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'', Maranzano is portrayed by Giampiero Judica. In the show, his assassination is depicted as being ordered by [[Nucky Thompson]], and Nucky's brother Eli is one of the participating gunmen, finishing Maranzano off by shooting him in the head.
*In the 2021 film ''[[Lansky (2021 film)|Lansky]]'', Maranzano is portrayed by Jay Giannone. In the film, Meyer Lansky is present in the room before Bugsy Siegel stabs him to death.