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Dead End Kids. The Dead End Kids were a group of young actors from New York City who appeared in Sidney Kingsley 's Broadway play Dead End in 1935. In 1937, producer Samuel Goldwyn brought all of them to Hollywood and turned the play into a film.
A list of actors who played in the Dead End Kids / Little Tough Guys / East Side Kids / Junior G Men / Gas House Kids / Bowery Boys films. Learn about their careers, personal lives and trivia.
The Dead End Kids originally appeared in the 1935 play Dead End, dramatized by Sidney Kingsley. When Samuel Goldwyn turned the play into a 1937 film , he recruited the original "kids" from the play— Leo Gorcey , Huntz Hall , Bobby Jordan , Gabriel Dell , Billy Halop , and Bernard Punsly —to appear in the same roles in the film.
The Sea Raiders, a band of foreign agents, led by Carl Tonjes and Elliott Carlton, blow up a freighter on which Billy Adams and Toby Nelson are stowaways, seeking to avoid Brack Warren, a harbor ...
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Learn about the Dead End Kids, a group of young actors who starred in a Broadway play and its film adaptation. Find out how they became popular and changed their names to The East Side Kids, The Little Tough Guys, and The Bowery Boys.
In 1938, Universal borrowed the Dead End Kids (except Gorcey and Jordan) for a juvenile-delinquency drama called Little Tough Guy. Universal adopted this as a brand name, and turned the film into a series of 'Little Tough Guys' features.
The youngsters who only a few months before had been tucked away, in England’s green and pleasant and safe land, were as it turned out, brave way beyond their years, and they had a name. They were the ‘Dead End Kids’ and they were the brain child of 17 year old Patsie
