Classic gangster movies

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When I was a small kid, I watched a movie which stuck in my head for years. I want to see it again but I can't remember what it was called. I think it starred Edward G. Robinson. (?)
Well, the climax of the movie goes like this: A big gala birthday party is being held for a gangster named "Spats". A waiter wheels in this enormous birthday cake. Spats waits for a beautiful girl/hooker to jump out of the cake and wish him a big happy. Instead, a gunman pops out with a machine gun and kills Spats and his entire crew with a hail of bullets after saying in a thick New Yorkan accent "Happy Boythday! Ya stickin' RAT!" That's how it ends. You see Spat's feet under the table still wearing a pair of "spats" - that's why he was called "Spats". They hadn't a clue!!
Does anybody know what this movie was called. I thought it might be "Little Caesar" (1930) but I don't want to sit through the whole movie and find out it wasn't the one.

Someone here must know for certain, I wonder if its not Little Caesar, might it be the Little Giant (1933)?

IMDB.com is useful here.

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Thanks!
My son is saying it's "Some Like It Hot" (1959) with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. I don't remember Marilyn Monroe being in the one I saw. In "Some Like It Hot" George Raft plays Spats Colombo who gets killed on his birthday by a gunman jumping out of a cake. 1959 seems too recent. I hated that movie because Marilyn's character made me feel so bad for her that I too wanted to marry her and I was a just 10 year old girl!! It got me all screwed up! After some barbecued chicken wings, I was fully heterosexual again.

Some Like it Hot has a character called 'Spats Colombo', yes that's so.

Yes, the birthday cake scene is at 5:45 on this clip:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KGMhSDGvWQ&feature=related[/youtube]

The person who put the clip up has the entire movie on youtube in parts.

That movie is hillarious! I love the end when the oblivious guy says "nobodys perfect".

I made a user icon of that for someone once. They asked for that last shot and the caption "Nobody's Perfect!" It was fun to make as I had to edit the image to bring them closer together in the frame so that it would look right in LiveJournal icon size.