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The East Side KidsEast Side Kids East Side Kids Characters in a series of films released by Monogram Pictures from 1940 through 1945 The East Side Kids were characters in a series of 22 films released by Monogram Pictures from 1940 through 1945.[1] The series was a low-budget imitation of the Dead End Kids, a successful film franchise of the late 1930s. East Side Kids History Main article: Dead End Kids The 1935 Sidney Kingsley Broadway play Dead End was a portrait of life in the New York tenements, featuring six tough-talking juvenile delinquents. When film producer Samuel Goldwyn made a film out of the play, he recruited the original kids from the play: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell, Billy… (Source: Wikipedia)
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