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. 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.
The Dead End Kids' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Gorcey in the film Gallant Sons (1940)
Bernard Punsly in the trailer for Little Tough Guy (1938)
Sidney Kingsley was an American dramatist. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Men in White in 1934.
Handbill for the original Broadway production of Men in White
Handbill for Darkness at Noon, 1953