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Post by teleadm on Dec 27, 2019 20:33:52 GMT
It was nice to read the Bernard Punsley or Punsly, actually lived a long life outside the entertainment industry, at least till he was 80. He read medical books in his spare time, and once he got his medical degree never ever sat his foot in the entertainment industry and had a practice in Torrance California. There were several kid actors who retired and became teachers. I always wonder about people who completely retire from show business and go on to other careers whether their patients or pupils or co-workers ever know who they "used to be" . I think I've heard that phrase "my acting career payed for my eductaion" a few times, and once they get a bit maturer and a bit older they might not even look like their former selves anymore. Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hull made som much noice the others might have been forgotten.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 27, 2019 23:30:33 GMT
Leo Gorcey "Trade Mark Characters" : Ethelbert 'Mugs' McGinnis and Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney  In 1935, Leo and his brother David appeared in the stage play "Dead End." In 1937, this was made into a movie, and Leo became one of the busiest actors for the next 20 years -- from 1937-1939 he starred in seven Dead End Kids movies, from 1940-1945 in 21 East Side Kids films, from 1946-1956 in 41 Bowery Boys movies. 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 27, 2019 23:31:01 GMT
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Post by snsurone on Dec 28, 2019 2:15:50 GMT
There was a film starring radio personality Henry Morgan (not to be confused with Harry Morgan), where Leo Gorcey played a small role as a jockey.
Does anyone remember the title of this movie?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 28, 2019 2:20:24 GMT
There was a film starring radio personality Henry Morgan (not to be confused with Harry Morgan), where Leo Gorcey played a small role as a jockey. Does anyone remember the title of this movie?  link 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 28, 2019 2:22:23 GMT
 Dona Drake, Leo Gorcey, Virginia Grey, Henry Morgan, and Rudy Vallee in So This Is New York (1948) |
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Post by snsurone on Dec 28, 2019 2:53:47 GMT
Merci beaucoup.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 28, 2019 17:50:10 GMT
Billy Halop  "Billy Halop's show business career started on radio in the 1920s and carried over to stage work on Broadway. There, in 1937, he and other teenage cast members of the stage hit "Dead End" were brought to Hollywood by Samuel Goldwyn for the film version of the play, which was a tremendous hit. Halop and some of the other teenage cast members went on to do a series of films at Universal as the Dead End Kids/Little Tough Guys while some of the others worked at Monogram in a series as the East Side Kids. Halop left the group in the early 1940s to seek a career on his own, but could only land parts in B pictures. His career was also hampered by a long string of marital and financial problems and a lifelong struggle against alcoholism. Toward the end of his career, he had a recurring role as Munson, the owner of the cab company where Archie Bunker worked part time, in All in the Family (1971). His last years were spent making a living as a male nurse."  "Worked as an electric dryer salesman for the Leonard Appliance Company of Los Angeles in the mid-1950s. He was named "Most Creative Salesman in the U.S." by the National Association of Manufacturers."  "He became a registered nurse (RN) at St. John's Hospital in Malibu, California." 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 28, 2019 17:50:41 GMT
Billy Halop - ALL IN THE FAMILY  |
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Post by teleadm on Dec 28, 2019 20:19:55 GMT
 Gorcey and Hull in their last apperance, The Phynx 1970, that nearly nobody has seen, including me....
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 28, 2019 23:56:11 GMT
Bobby Jordan "Bobby was raised in Flatbush, Brooklyn. By the time he was four and a half, he could act, tap dance and play the Saxophone. He made his stage debut in 1930 and film debut at Warner Bros./Vitaphone in 1931. He also reportedly had a bit part in the 1934 Eddie Cantor film, "Kid Millions". He then appeared on Broadway in "Dead End", which opened on October 28, 1935. He left the show in mid-November 1936 to appear in the The Samuel Goldwyn Company film version of "Dead End". Warner Brothers studios signed the all of the Dead End Kids to contracts. At the peak of his career, Bobby made $1,500 a week, owned a $150,000 home in Beverly Hills and was the sole support of his mother, two brothers a sister and a niece." More biography etc in the link above   Hanging around with Bogart in CRIME SCHOOL  A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER  Real Life Military service during WW II  In 1943, Bobby was drafted. He served as a foot soldier in the 97th Infantry until 1945 with his only film appearance being the East Side Kid's "Bowery Champs" (1944), playing himself in a running gag.
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Post by marshamae on Dec 29, 2019 0:26:22 GMT
Read this story about Angels with Dirty Faces . The Dead end kids had gotten way out of control and gave Humphrey Bogart an awful time , with wisecracks escalating to pranks. One day they cornered him and took his pants . Worse still was their ad libbing which threw the other actors off and wasted time . Actual Street kid James Cagney got them together. The first time Gorcey ad libbed with Cagney, Cagney stiff armed him right above the nose. They behaved for the rest of the shoot.
I adore their Bowery boy films. They are funnier that Abbot and Costello and their gang spirit was always fun to watch .
Leo had little relationship with his father until 1935 when Bernard reached out to his sons and apologized for being absent. They became very close, until Bernard’s death .
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 29, 2019 1:10:21 GMT
There were several kid actors who retired and became teachers. I always wonder about people who completely retire from show business and go on to other careers whether their patients or pupils or co-workers ever know who they "used to be" . I was reading user comments on IMDB or Youtube about an old tv show The New Adventures of Huck Finn and someone wrote something like "Omigod it's Ms. Haslam!" They were a student in her class and heard she had appeared in a tv show as a kid and looked it up online. I think they mentioned she sometimes showed her class the show at the end of the year.
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Post by marshamae on Dec 29, 2019 10:14:42 GMT
Isn’t this the plot line of Dreamboat?
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Post by snsurone on Jan 15, 2020 16:30:57 GMT
There were several kid actors who retired and became teachers. I always wonder about people who completely retire from show business and go on to other careers whether their patients or pupils or co-workers ever know who they "used to be" . I think I've heard that phrase "my acting career payed for my eductaion" a few times, and once they get a bit maturer and a bit older they might not even look like their former selves anymore. Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hull made som much noice the others might have been forgotten. If they actually wrote "payed", then they didn't get much of an education! 
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 22, 2020 21:55:23 GMT
Read Gabe Dell was the original voice for Boba Fett in the Star Wars Holiday Special.
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Post by phantomparticle on Sept 22, 2020 23:40:39 GMT
I saw most of their features from the 1950's at my local movie house and have caught up to the earlier films via television. They were a mixed bag as they descended from the major studios to poverty row but they always gave it their best.
Although I haven't seen it in years, I can still recall the screams of laughter around me when Sach was being swallowed up by a tree in The Bowery Boys Meet The Monsters.
Hall seems to have had the longest screen career of them all, appearing (if sporadically) in movies until 1993, just a few years before his death. Nice to know he had the business sense to make his later life comfortable while so many of his contemporaries fell on hard times.
Thanx for the memories, Dead End East Side Bowery Boys, wherever you are.
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Post by alexhurricanehiggins on Sept 25, 2020 10:33:28 GMT
I really like Spooks Run Wild.
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