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2 unusual facts about The Bowery Boys: New York City History


The Bowery Boys: New York City History

For instance, their 50th episode concerns the history of Collect Pond, while their 100th episodes regards the life of Robert Moses.

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.


Angels' Alley

Angels' Alley is a 1948 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys.

Bowery Buckaroos

Bowery Buckaroos is a 1947 film starring the comedy team of 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.

In 1956, he co-starred in The Bowery Boys film Dig That Uranium, followed by a bit part as a Hebrew slave in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments.

Crashing Las Vegas

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

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.

Bernds then became a writer-director for The Bowery Boys, and hired Ullman to write for the popular feature-length comedies.

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).

Fighting Trouble

Fighting Trouble is a 1956 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys.

Hard Boiled Mahoney

Hard Boiled Mahoney is a 1947 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys.

Jail Busters

Jail Busters is a 1955 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys.

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.

Jinx Money

Jinx Money is a 1948 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys.

Mary Castle

The most frequently revived Mary Castle feature is probably her least prestigious: she played a gold-digging femme fatale opposite Huntz Hall and The Bowery Boys in the low-budget comedy Crashing Las Vegas (1956).

Mr. Hex

Hex is a 1946 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys.

Mr. Muggs Rides Again

Leo Gorcey would later adopt this as his character middle name in the The Bowery Boys films.

News Hounds

News Hounds is a 1947 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys.

Queen of Outer Space

The Three Stooges and The Bowery Boys director Edward Bernds recalled that after famed producer Walter Wanger was released from prison for shooting agent Jennings Lang in the groin for having an affair with his wife Joan Bennett, Wanger could only find work at Allied Artists.

Spook Busters

Spook Busters is a 1946 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys.

Spook Chasers

Spook Chasers is a 1957 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys.

Spy Chasers

Spy Chasers is a 1955 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys.

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters

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


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