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The Bowery Boys (vernacular Bowery B ' hoys) were a nativist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Irish criminal gang based in the Bowery neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City in the early-mid-19th century. In contrast with the Irish immigrant tenement of the Five Points , the Bowery was a more prosperous working-class community.
Theaters continued to play Bowery Boys features well into the 1960s. The Bowery Boys (48 titles) was third-longest feature-film series of American origin in motion-picture history (behind the Charles Starrett westerns at 131 titles, and Hopalong Cassidy at 66). The final Bowery Boys film, In the Money, was released in 1958. Only Huntz Hall and ...
The show quickly evolved into a more focused history podcast . [2] The show, which was initially set in their neighborhood, is also a play on the 19th-century gang the Bowery Boys and the Hollywood acting troupe The Bowery Boys. [4] Meyers now lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his husband, Guillaume Normand, and their infant son, Julien. [2]
Leo Bernard Gorcey (June 3, 1917 [1] – June 2, 1969) was an American stage and film actor, famous for portraying the leader of a group of hooligans known variously as the Dead End Kids, the East Side Kids, and as adults, The Bowery Boys.
Stanley Clements (born Stanislaw Klimowicz; July 16, 1926 – October 16, 1981) was an American actor and comedian, best known for portraying "Stash" in the East Side Kids film series, and group leader Stanislaus "Duke" Coveleskie in The Bowery Boys film series.
William Poole (July 24, 1821 – March 8, 1855), also known as Bill the Butcher, was the leader of the Washington Street Gang, which later became known as the Bowery Boys gang. He was a local leader of the Know Nothing political movement in mid-19th-century New York City .
Up in Smoke is a 1957 American comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys. [2] [1] The film was released on December 22, 1957, by Allied Artists and is the penultimate film in the series.
On the evening of July 4, 1857, while the rest of New York was celebrating Independence Day, members of the Dead Rabbits led a coalition of street gangs from the Five Points (with the exception of the Roach Guards with whom they had been fighting) [2] into The Bowery to raid a clubhouse occupied by the Bowery Boys and the Atlantic Guards.