The Dead End Kids were a group of young actors from New York who appeared in Sidney Kingsley

Sidney Kingsley

Sidney Kingsley was an American dramatist. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Men in White in 1934.- Biography :...

's Broadway

Broadway theatre

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 play Dead End in 1935. In 1937 producer Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn was an American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios.-Biography:...

 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 East Side Kids

East Side Kids

The East Side Kids were characters in a series of films released by Monogram Pictures from 1940 through 1945. Many of them were originally part of The Dead End Kids and The Little Tough Guys, and several of them later became members of The Bowery Boys....

, the Little Tough Guys

Little Tough Guys

The Little Tough Guys were a group of actors who made a series of films and serials released by Universal Studios from 1938 through 1943...

, and the Bowery Boys

The Bowery Boys

The Bowery Boys were fictional New York City characters who were the subject of feature films released by Monogram Pictures from 1946 through 1958....

, until 1958.
In 1934, Sidney Kingsley

Sidney Kingsley

Sidney Kingsley was an American dramatist. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Men in White in 1934.- Biography :...

 wrote a play about a group of children growing up on the streets of New York City.