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...Gorcey, side-of-the-mouth "Dead End Kid" of stage & screen, had gat trouble with his estranged wife Evalene. One dark night at home in suburban Los Angeles, he heard people coming in without asking, so he grabbed his rod quick and blazed away. It was just Evalene and a couple of detectives having a little peek. Nobody got hit, but Leo got arrested on a gun charge and faced trial this week...
Married. Julius ("Groucho") Marx, 54, gabbiest of the lady-ogling Marx Brothers; and Catherine Mavis Gorcey, 24, singing starlet and ex-wife of deadpan Dead End Kid Leo Gorcey; both for the second time; in Hollywood...
Engaged. Leo B. Gorcey, 20, granite-faced "Dead End Kid" (Spit); and Katherine Mavis, 17, drama student; in Hollywood...
...Mayor of Hell, Freddie Bartholomew's The Devil Is a Sissy, and the Pat O'Brien-Humphrey Bogart San Quentin. But what gives it a rich and salty flavor of its own is ingredients like the six young toughies from Dead End (Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Bernard Punsley, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell) and a dialogue script that is often spicier than Dead End's. That some day this gang would wind up in a tough cinema reformatory was entirely conceivable. That it would reform them as thoroughly as Crime School does is not so easy...
...design, intensifies its mood, sharpens its implications. And Producer Goldwyn was smart enough to import the Geddes-Kingsley gang en masse, the whole dirty, ruthless, gay, heroic, nasty, sadistic crew of them. In their transplanted metropolitan hell, Tommy (Billy Halop), Dippy (Huntz Hall), Angel (Bobby Jordan), Spit (Leo Gorcey), T. B. (Gabriel Dell) and Milty (Bernard Punsly) again speak in the thickened explosives of New Yorkese, roast mickeys (potatoes) in street fires, harass the brass-buttoned doorman of the neighborhood's swank apartment house, defy a flatfoot (policeman), beat the dickens out of a rich kid (Charles Peck), plan...