Now Forgotten - The Life and Sad Ending® of Leo Gorcey - From the Original T.L.A.S.E.

[@melaniexoxo]

Thanks for remembering him 🙏

[@TheLifeandSadEnding]

@melaniexoxo Thank you so very much Melanie!

[@laurawurzel9015]

I grew up watching The Bowery Boys - always enjoyed it - As I’m writing this, I am watching “Angels in Disguises” on TCM - loved all of their movies

[@pamela930]

​@@laurawurzel9015I'm watching TCM too! 🙂

[@RickRogers-o8m]

Bowery Boys were GREAT!!! I have all 48 of their movies on dvd.

[@danklein8587]

So do I. Great stuff.

[@aldazio642]

I used to watch The Bowery Boys all the time. I thought the series was great!

[@Donathon-qx8kq]

Me too...miss those days

[@meerkat7406]

Absolutely loved the Bowery Boys. Leo would often tell Huntz Hall that "I'll Murderlize Ya!!! Gone to soon. Great childhood memories watching Leo, Huntz and the gang. Leo also bears a striking resemblance to late great rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen.

[@harrydemkee3580]

He’s most definitely not forgotten yet! The Bowery Boys were a Saturday morning regular for those of us growing up in the 60’s. It is sad how alcohol took so many of that era’s most talented performers. Thanks Steve for this content!!

[@SurfCityBill]

Unfortunately, alcohol takes a lot of today's performers, too.

[@irahwebster1088]

Yeah, I'm a child of the 60's and 70's too! When I saw Leo's face, the first thought that came to my mind was "The Bowery Boys". It came on Saturday afternoons in my home town, too! Thanks!

[@stevencruz3977]

Growing up living in Brooklyn watching them on Saturday afternoon and Sunday too was great lot of memories

[@jerrytaliercio9087]

I grew up in good old Brooklyn…born in 55…what a childhood I had….

[@larrymondello8475]

I'm 72 I used to watch It every Saturday morning. Thank you.

[@jeffzloczower2886]

The good old days. Grew up with the Bowery Boys. Seemed like my friends and I lived it. Can't ever imagine times how they have changed. When you're young , your more daring. Cuitos to Leo Gorcey , Huntz Hall and the Bowery Boys !

[@larryfloyd4993]

I'M 67 SOON TO BE 68... I LOVE THOSE MOVIES AS A KID

[@christophermaccarone3157]

Us Baby Boomers had such a wide menu of black and white television options. I watched every single Bowery Boys episode, plus Ozzie and Harriet, Lone Ranger, American Bandstand, Shirley Temple movies, and a long laundry list of others. Let's not forget The Wonderful World of Disney. What a wonderful, adventurous, simple, innocent era we lived in.

[@notsosilentmajority1]

Me and my younger brothers used to watch "The Bowery Boys" in the late 60's and even early 70's. We lived in Brooklyn so we always felt a connection to the characters in the show. Thanks for the memories. 🙏👍

[@johnrusso5046]

I loved when sach walks into louies sweet shop saying " oh louie, give me a malted ".

[@ethanferbin]

Leo Gorcey is one of my favorite actors of all time. Thank you for remembering him in such a respectful and informative video! Congrats on the channel, sir!

[@billobrien4680]

I was a 60s kid from Brooklyn. I loved the Bowery Boys.

[@keithe2150]

On Sundays after coming home from church on WNEW out of New York, which eventually became the fox channel they always showed these movies from about 12:30 to 2 o’clock or the TV shows combined together. It was excellent and brings back a lot of memories and I haven’t seen one for years. My father would sit and watch these with me and thanks for this video. Be well.

[@TheLifeandSadEnding]

Thanks, Keith.

[@davidv7275]

I was in the same boat, watched them on channel 5 out of NYC, I am 66. You know in reviews such as this you always see folks have fond memories of the topic at hand. I am definitely mixed on the Bowery boys. On a Sunday at the time it aired I often had little to do and would watch it, but I would watch almost anything in those days. And I am sure I saw a number of them repeated a few times over the years I watched. They were ok but at times I would be why are you watching this again, you know how it turns out and it was not that good the first time. If I was a kid today I am sure I would rather watch a number of things before the Bowery Boys and have never tried to watch it again (I have other shows I have nostalgia for) in all these years. So I did not love them but thanks for the entrainment.

[@rogerrendzak8055]

Don't worry, 'Slip' ain't forgotten!! As long as SOME people, remember him (or anyone), he/they won't ever be, 'forgotten'. Grew up watching these, with my dad, 50+years ago. As a 62 year old boy, I particularly love, the scary one's, in each classification series. Loved the Pontiac commercial, with Victor McLaglen, Elisha Cook, Lon Chaney, Robert Strauss, and Slip. Especially love the 'Dead End Kids', with their 1st. title role movie, with Bogie.

[@teel714]

I loved watching "The Bowery Boys" films when I was younger, back in the late '60s and early '70s. They were a highlight of my Saturday TV viewing.

[@rindafulwider8119]

❤ He was a great Actor and I enjoy watching him. 😢Thanks Steve. He did great.

[@leomik]

I loved those films!

[@josephkrawiec-fn4rc]

Every Saturday when we were kids,my friends and I watched those bowery boys films and repeated those malaprops constantly

[@ksw501]

Slip Mahoney led the way for Norm MacDonald’s (sp?) career with his speech slip ups. Used to like watching the bowery boys movies as a kid, sounds like I’m from the same generation as you Steve. Thanks for another great post.

[@TheLifeandSadEnding]

Thanks for watching, I depreciate it.

[@ksw501]

@@TheLifeandSadEnding 😉

[@nancyfahey7518]

If one came on today I would stop everything and watch it. I just recently watched one of their early movies.

[@MDC617]

That would be Norm Crosby, not Norm MacDonald.🤨

[@vleldaddio210]

Louie Dombroski was my favorite who just happened to be Leo's real Father😊

[@riverbender9898]

I share those same Saturday memories Steve. Leo was the classic tough leader. Shame he crawled into a bottle and died tragically too young. Thanx.

[@k.c8330]

Used to watch The Bowery Boys every Saturday. Didn't know he made that many dead end kids movies they are hard to get.

[@johnrusso5046]

Every Saturday morning i looked forward in watching the Bowery boys.

[@tomfilipiak3511]

Iam 75,always loved the dead end boys!

[@banjo1241]

The Bowery Boys…yes!

[@littleblackduck3134]

Did I! We wouldn't even think of going out to play before watching the Bowery Boys on Saturday morning. Slip, Satch, Louie, Gabe Chuck ,and Whitey were almost family......."Routine 6 Boys"

[@doggovision8765]

Great memory. Wasn't Louie played by Leo's real life dad?

[@monicadaniels784]

My childhood. Also please don't come to your end! Stick around.

[@PattyHamilton-kv1pz]

We had an old black and white television I used to watch in the 60s and early 70s. My dad would be watching sports on the newer color television. I enjoyed watching the Bowery Boys and other old movies, especially when the weather was bad and you couldn't play outside. Life was very different back then.

[@SurfCityBill]

Wow. A two TV family. You were lucky.

[@michaelkupchik3974]

Are you kidding I still try to watch them on Turner classic films 😂😂😂😂😂 . Still makes me laugh 😂😂 and I'm 66 years old. Love your post.

[@alanbrooke3237]

Thank you!! These were my favorites growing up!!

[@memphismike57]

Back in the 70s the Bowery boys were on Saturday & Sunday 12 noon we played roller hockey but set up the games like 130 so me & my buddy could watch them still watch today on turner classics on Saturday morning every so often love them boys!!!!

[@peterzang]

I loved watching them on Saturdays. Me and my boys

[@WELIVEWEDIEOMY]

I used to watch 'The Bowery Boys' episodes in the mid 1960's while eating dinner in the afternoon after school! What a Gang!!!

[@steveterribile4678]

Why don't they show these movies today?They're so good and talented.

[@Rkenton48]

Not WOKE enough for today's audience. LOL

[@richardsylvanus2717]

Use to watch them on channel 5 in NYC

[@azul8811]

Using an antenna…

[@deborahmiller9227]

I did too

[@williamwelch7]

Thanks Steve. I, too, watched a good number of Bowery Boys movies as a kid. Leo was unforgettable!

[@dennisliamardell8906]

Loved Leo Gorcey - was the best Made our childhoods wonderful watching him in films - Huntz Hall , loved too.

[@Martin-p9c3q]

Bowery boys are great, I watched them every Saturday morning. !!!!! We love you forever. ❤ 🎚️🙏🎚️🙏🎚️🙏🎚️❤️

[@retiredinbali9565]

Just like you, I never saw his movies, but loved the Bowery Boys TV series in my pre-teen years.

[@jonBrown-k4p]

yes, I was born in 1950 and we watched the Bowery Boys on TV. The shot of Mr Grocey's head stone held the same life years as my mom, 1917-1969, another short but successful life...

[@RedFuryIII]

We loved the Bowery Boys!

[@roscoearbuckle2]

Every Saturday with my mother's 4 hr. Sauce & Rigatoni. RIP Mugs. I'm truly housebroken.😂

[@robertmcevoy24]

Saturdays in the 60’s Bowery Boys, Roller Derby and Wrestling it didn’t get any better. I’m 68 I remember my mom watching it with me we would sit and have dinner on a TV tray. Thanks for the vid

[@1949rangerrick]

Leo was a good actor. Loved him in Angels With Dirty Faces with James Cagney. I think it was in 1968 my friends and I went to see the Tonight show with Johnny Carson when his show came to Los Angeles for a few shows. Leo Gorcey was a guest, and so was a young Liza Minnelli. Leo got a bit lost coming out on his call on stage and seemed quite disturbed coming to his seat. I didn’t know he had an alcohol problem at the time, but it was obvious he had some kind of problem. I felt sorry for him as he struggled to entertain while Johnny interviewed him. He was so animated in his movies, I’ll not forget him. RIP Leo.

[@leegunter5223]

During the late 60's and early 70's right after my brother and parents would watch East Side Comedy right after church and before dinner! I believe I've seen all the Bowery Brothers!

[@RTILEBEINSR]

He is not all forgotten. I loved that show. Watched it every sunday.

[@richardhudak4571]

In the 50s and 60s I watched there movies in black and white TV n I really liked there movie called Angels with dirty faces in 1938

[@antonmassopust568]

I watch them now on Turner Classic Movies

[@Alejandro.Rendon]

I once bought a three disc dvd at Sam Goodie in the early 2000s solely for the cover that a had few Laurel and Hardy skits, and of the other features were Amos and Andy and The Eastside Kids. I love Laurel and Hardy, and Amos and Andy were great too but I must confess that i was pulled IN by the chemistry, and bravado that the Eastside kids all possessed and are so sorely underrated most notably Leo Gorcey, in my opinion, whom I've always thought resembled a young Leo DiCaprio but in his later years. That ensemble of bright and talented kid actors were MUCH more than just a onetrick pony comedy run They each had their own individual ruckus for the city; all the hardship, heartbreak, and perseverance kindred into one spirit reflected in film for eternity. Truly a once in a lifetime A once is too many for this lifetime. Gone but never forgotten. Big Up to all of them.

[@johnkalyna2924]

Yup, I have fond memories of watching the Bowery Boys, growing up in the East Village, 3Rd Ave. Some of society 's best wound up there because of alcohol. RIP Leo. Jake '58.

[@robertjolly3021]

Leo was great, did a lot of stuff !! Thanks 😎😎

[@jrzzrj]

👍...Leo was a part of my movie enjoyment when I was a kid. Saw many of his films. Many laughs.

[@durandjohnson1321]

Yes we saw them here in Seattle, as reruns back in the mid sixties!.. we enjoyed them!

[@FeralPatrick]

My mom used to mention The Bowery Boys a lot when I was a kid, but I hadn't seen Leo in anything till I became a classic movie fan in my 30's and saw Angels with Dirty Faces and Dead End. Thanks to AMC (when they showed classic film) and TCM. Man, he looked 70 in that Pontiac commercial. Alcohol's a helluva drug. Thanks for this channel. Excellent work!

[@filmsforsmartpeople3587]

I too watched the Bowery Boys on Saturday mornings, so sad a bout Leo Gorcey. He played this "tough guy" but we al knew it was just bluster, he was a sweet heart really.

[@johammond9359]

I remember the bowery boys. Until I saw his picture, I didn't remember him. I don't think I ever paid attention to most actors' names back then. I was very, very young. I did enjoy watching them. Thank you for telling about him. How about the other actors, in the bowery boys? Maybe tell us about them?

[@annegogh]

Yes! I watched The Bowery Boys too when I was young. I do remember it was on at an odd time of day, like a weekend afternoon.

[@austinsandefer649]

Love the Bowery Boys pictures. Thank You so much. 👍👍

[@davidlindsay2436]

I saw Master Minds at a theatre in Niagara Falls, NY, and it has stayed with me ever since. One of the strongest BBs movies. Jack Pierce did the monster makeup.

[@Whatt787]

Bowery Boys Out West is one of their best films

[@zengreen7]

We Depreciate this video.

[@patriciaadams-rl4iz]

Bowery Boys, on a Saturday afternoon was absolutely great. Wish they would come up with a group like that again.

[@Rkenton48]

No weekend was complete without a Bowery Boys and an Abbott & Costello movie when I was a kid back then.

[@juliangerardcascio-xg9rm]

Both Just Awesome !!

[@johnwesley8327]

I loved The Bowery Boys movies. They were on periodically on Saturday afternoon when I was a kid.

[@Tony-w5x]

What a character he was. I still periodically watch the old Bowery Boys movies and enjoy them just as much as always. My favorite malapropism from him is when a cop was harassing him he said, “You can’t arrest me for fragrancy because I ain’t fragrant, and you can’t arrest me for being an accomplish to a crime because I ain’t ever accomplished a thing!” He was great and it’s such a shame he died so young and so needlessly. Glad he lives on in his work and in our hearts…

[@ObservantHistorian]

We used to see them on the late Saturday afternoon movies. I cannot think of Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall without thinking of eating in front of the TV on folding tray tables - with boiled hot dogs on white bread with ketchup and mustard, and canned corn. It's just one of those vivid associations!

[@1teamski]

Even in the 1980's, they would show the Bowery Boys on Saturday afternoons. They were awesome even for us kids.....

[@garyarnold4768]

I not only watched the Dead End Kids, The Bowery Boys, and The East Side Kids growing up. If I don't currently have all those movies on DVD, I have nearly all of them. At 80 years young, I still enjoy those movies.

[@MsTERRY4658]

Please never forgotten. Keep it going.

[@allisonmarlow184]

I remember watching him in the Bowery Boys and Dead End Kids every Sunday after church in the 60s and early 70s. (Hmm. Maybe it was on Saturdays.) Thank you for covering him.

[@melaniexoxo]

I had a crush on him in Dead End Kids reruns. I watched in the 70s ❤

[@AlainMontiel-z7j]

I used hurry from school every afternoon to turn on the TV and watch the Bowery Boys. I believe every child in my neighborhood did that! We used to share the antics the Boys engaged the following day.

[@LoneWrenchGarage]

I remember the Saturday afternoons watching the Bowlery Boys and Abbott and Costello movies. I sure wish I could find them to watch nowadays

[@nancyfahey7518]

A bunch of them are on KZbin Movies. So many are free.

[@jamesrobinson4703]

Yes, I looked forward to and watched them on Saturday Afternoon TV. In the Chicagoland area in the 60's and very early 70's too...

[@dzl8596]

I loved watching The Bowery Boys as a kid in the 60’s.

[@daviddaigle2419]

I used to watch those movies with my Dad when I was a kid and told me he saw them at the movies growing up,

[@JoseMorales-lw5nt]

Thank you for keeping these great talents alive through your video tributes! That '69 Pontiac commercial just happened to feature another famous actor, Elisha Cook, Jr! Always loved how Mr. Cook's career was so vast that he went from co-starring with Humphrey Bogart to playing a mourge medical examiner in BLACULA to playing a horse coachman on an early episode of NIGHT COURT!❤

[@TheLifeandSadEnding]

Lon Chaney Jr. too.

[@juliangerardcascio-xg9rm]

Yes , was great !!

[@ladanehaten4283]

Loved the Bowery Boys as a kid and watch their movies ever Saturday mornings on TV.

[@johnmaldonado3932]

I grew up with the bowery boys great T.V. in New York on Saturday afternoons on channel 5

[@phillipsuttles1926]

i watched many of those films. loved them

[@smittyinwootown5640]

I’m 65and Definitely watched The Bowery Boys on Saturdays in the late 60s early 70s. I loved Huntz Hall. Horace Debussy Jones ( better known as Sach). In a very funny way He reminded me of Shemp from the Three Stooges. I totally miss those Saturday mornings. I was like 10 years old. Would kill to go back for 1 day. Wrestling, Roller Derby, creative double feature , Bowery Boys and cartoons just to name a few. Those are precious memories from precious times. 😢

[@clintprovance8047]

The Bowery boys and the dead end kids were everywhere in the 1960s a sad time when Leo gorcey passed away in 1967 or 68 he was only 51 years old the movie he was in the country and western which has a very bizarre title I'm going to look back in your biography on Leo Gorcey they were everywhere on television on afternoons and late nights. Fun memories. 3:41

[@MikeK910LA]

Today TCMs star of the day was Leo Gorcey. Watched my share of the Eastside Kids, Dead End Kids and the Bowery Boys. Loved Angels With Dirty Faces too.

[@derangedlunaticakad.l.7030]

When I was a kid, we used to watch the Bowery boys as well. We loved them.

[@theretiringbarber]

i LOVED THOSE SHOWS ON SATURDAY MATINEES .

[@Luvoldmovies-Kat.St.Aug.]

I watch The Bowery Boys and The Dead End Kids whenever it comes on TV 📺. I have watch some movies here on KZbin. I did not know the ice cream shop owner was Leo “s real Father 😇📺🎥⭐️. Thank you 👍❤️

[@MichaelSSmith-hs5pw]

The Bowery Boys were successors of The East End Kids who had been the subject of films since 1940. The group originated as The Dead End Kids who originally appeared in the 1937 film, Dead End.

[@kevinogracia1615]

Wow! Blast from the past. I was a sixties kid, too. Saw them on independent channel eleven, Tucson. Thanks. Peace on earth.

[@billharrison4531]

Actor John Byron hosted a bowery boys.movie marathon on TCM back in the 90s. He would introduce the movies from a 50s style diner. Good movies from a simpler time 😎

[@TheOriginalDJMrVee]

I grew up with the “Bowery Boys” which used to come on channel 5 in NY back n the late 60s, right after Wonderama. Thank you for reminding me of those simpler times.

[@TheLifeandSadEnding]

Very cool!

[@jefferyrightmire9520]

I still watch them , as many are on the internet

[@johnrussell1699]

I loved the Bowery Boys on Saturday afternoons in NJ. Slip Mahoney, Satch, and Whitey.

[@Cornbread-gi6kt]

Did you know that Leo Gorcey and Ernest Morrison were the only two actors ‘combined in a scene’ to ever make Bela Lugosi continue to ‘laugh openly’ offset?. Can you guess which scene and movie caused Bel to act out of personal character in a moment of fun?🤷🏼

[@garystewart2621]

I love the show,it’s sad what happened to him,RIP.

[@nighthiker8872]

In the early 60's Sunday morning TV, his side kick made good investments buying stocks in offshore RIGS!

[@nighthiker8872]

Michigan!

[@CaesiusX]

Thanks for this Steve! Though it was the early-mid 70's and not the 60's, like you I also watched the Bowery Boys on TV on the weekend. I always looked forward to coming upon one, or spotting it in the TV Guide. Again, thank you. This one is a rare gem. Be well! 🙋🏼‍♂️

[@TheLifeandSadEnding]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mscatmoon]

Loved watching the Bowery Boys.

[@rsb512]

I probably haven't seen a Bowery boys or the dead end kids in 40 years. I watched an hour-long movie tonight called smart alecks from 1942. It was very funny. I'm sorry Leo had such a rough ending since he brought so much joy with all his films. I wish shows like The Bowery boys we're on TV more regularly and the Little rascals too I haven't seen them in decades. Although they're probably on KZbin.

[@edaguirre8952]

Thanks. I saw a good number of the bowery boys. I think that they were also called the East Side Kids. It was good clean fun. Gorcey played the leader of the gang, and he fit the role perfectly. Too bad that he died so young.