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Dead End is a 1937 American crime drama film directed by William Wyler. [1] It is an adaptation of the Sidney Kingsley 1935 Broadway play of the same name. It stars Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, and Claire Trevor. It was the first film appearance of the acting group known as the Dead End Kids.
This was all in vain, though, as the name never caught on, and they remained the Dead End Kids. [3] At Warner Bros., the Dead End Kids made six films, including Angels with Dirty Faces, with some of the top actors in Hollywood, including James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield, Pat O'Brien, and Ronald Reagan. The last one was in 1939, when ...
Bogart also received positive reviews for his performance as gangster Hugh "Baby Face" Martin in William Wyler's Dead End (1937). His breakthrough came in High Sierra (1941), and he catapulted to stardom as the lead in John Huston 's The Maltese Falcon (1941), considered one of the first great noir films. [ 4 ]
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.
Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957) [1] [2] was an American actor and producer whose 36-year career began with live stage productions in New York in 1920. He had been born into an affluent family in New York's Upper West Side, [3] the first-born child and only son of illustrator Maud Humphrey and physician Belmont DeForest Bogart. [1]
Humphrey Bogart was a late bloomer. Although he started his acting career on Broadway in his early 20s and made his big-screen debut eight years later, he didn't become a bonafide movie star until ...
"Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes" frames the actor's life around the women who influenced him most — his mother and four wives. New Humphrey Bogart doc managed to surprise his son, Stephen: His ...
The Dead End Kids as the neighborhood boys who idolize Rocky. Billy Halop plays their leader Soapy, Bobby Jordan appears as Swing, Leo Gorcey as Bim, Gabriel Dell as Pasty, Huntz Hall as Crab and Bernard Punsly as Hunky. Humphrey Bogart as Jim Frazier, a crooked lawyer associated with organized crime. He owes Rocky $100,000.