High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Dead End Kids were a group of young actors from New York who appeared in Sidney Kingsley`s Broadway play Dead End in 1935. In 1937 producer Samuel Goldwyn brought all of them to Hollywood and turned the play into a film. They proved to be so popular that they continued to make movies under various monikers, including the East Side Kids, the Little Tough Guys, and the Bowery Boys, until 1958.