Dead End Kids
The Dead End Kids were a group of young actors from New York 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. They proved to be so popular that they continued to make movies under various monikers, including the Little Tough Guys, the East Side Kids, and the Bowery Boys, until 1958.
Read more about Dead End Kids: History (1934-1937), Little Tough Guys (1938-1943), The East Side Kids (1940-1945), The Bowery Boys (1946-1958), Epilogue, Filmography - Dead End Kids (1937-1939), Imitators
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