Lot 6
A pair of jackets from The "Dead End" Kids On Dress Parade
25 November 2013, 13:00 EST
Los AngelesUS$1,000 - US$1,500
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A pair of jackets from The "Dead End" Kids On Dress Parade
Warner Bros., 1939. Blue wool West Point cadet style collarless jacket with tails, with black embroidery and gilt metal buttons, bearing a green-lettered Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Hollywood, Cal. label inscribed in black ink, "Leo Gorcey." Together with a second collarless blue wool jacket with plain black trim, bearing a green-lettered Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Hollywood, Cal. label inscribed in black ink, "Hall Huntz." Accompanied by a still from the film showing Gorcey wearing this jacket.
Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall starred as Slip Duncan and Cadet Johnny Cabot in this edition of the Dead End Kids film series. The actors got their start in a 1935 Broadway play entitled Dead End, where producer Samuel Goldwyn saw them and subsequently brought them to Hollywood to film an adaptation, released in 1937. Dead End was a success and the boys made a series of other films between 1938 and 1958 under the names "the Dead End Kids," "the East Side Kids," and "the Bowery Boys."
Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall starred as Slip Duncan and Cadet Johnny Cabot in this edition of the Dead End Kids film series. The actors got their start in a 1935 Broadway play entitled Dead End, where producer Samuel Goldwyn saw them and subsequently brought them to Hollywood to film an adaptation, released in 1937. Dead End was a success and the boys made a series of other films between 1938 and 1958 under the names "the Dead End Kids," "the East Side Kids," and "the Bowery Boys."
