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2 unusual facts about Bowery Boys


Crashing Las Vegas

Crashing Las Vegas is a 1956 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys.

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Meyers and Young named their show for the notorious 19th Century gang the Bowery Boys, although on an interview with Brian Lehrer on November 2010, they also mention the comedic Hollywood acting troupe The Bowery Boys.


Carl Switzer

Switzer's last starring roles were in a brief series of imitation-Bowery Boys movies; he reprised his "Alfalfa" character, complete with comically sour vocals, in PRC's Gas House Kids comedies of 1946 and 1947.

Elwood Ullman

Unfortunately the Academy had confused the high-budget Bing Crosby-Grace Kelly feature with Ullman's work on a Bowery Boys movie of the same name.

Fay Roope

But, primarily, he worked in comedies with such stars as Fred MacMurray, Red Skelton, Mickey Rooney, the Bowery Boys, Martin & Lewis, and Marjorie Main & Percy Kilbride (Ma and Pa Kettle).

Jean Yarbrough

His greatest success came in the 1940s, when he directed films that are even today fondly remembered such as The Devil Bat, King of the Zombies, She-Wolf of London, and a number of Abbott and Costello and Bowery Boys comedies.


see also

Dead Rabbits

Lyrics detailing the Dead Rabbits' battle with the Bowery Boys on July 4, 1857, were written by Henry Sherman Backus ("The Saugerties Bard") in Hoboken, NJ.

Queen of Outer Space

The model was eventually used by The Bowery Boys in Paris Playboys (1954) that was co-written by Bernds and Ullman.

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters is a 1954 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys.