Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 3/3 - Names

I surfed with the remote last night and again found a fun film on National Evangelical Television, 30 on Cablevision in NYC. In fact, I first noticed the channel because of the very same flick, They Made Me a Criminal (1939), starring John Garfield, in only his third screen appearance, and the Dead End Kids, who later were called the Bowery Boys. Fortunately, the print was infinitely better than the one the station previously aired. That one had minute-long black-outs, lines running through it, and snap, crackle and pops in the audio. The movie itself is endearing entertainment, despite its many flaws. There was a sad irony at one point. Garfield, playing an ex-fighter on the lam for a crime he did not commit, enters a boxing challenge to raise funds so orphans can buy a gasoline pump. Upon returning from the required physical, Huntz Hall declares: “If he (Garfield) was any healthier….” Tragically, this fine actor succumbed to a heart attack at 39, and amassed only 32 film credits. He also starred in several Broadway plays, theater being his love, films his meal ticket. He did great work in another boxing film, Body and Soul (1947), and in Humoresque (1946) opposite Joan Crawford, and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) opposite the luscious Lana Turner, and Force of Evil (1948). Born in NYC to Russian immigrants, he is also a hero of the left, having refused to name names when called to testify during the McCarthy hearings. Three of his co-stars in They Made Me A Criminal also died young. Ann Sheridan, Hollywood's “Oomph Girl,” of cancer at 51, Gloria Dickson in a house fire at 28, and Billy Halop, who struggled with alcohol most of his life, at 56. Halop worked as a registered nurse for a while. He also had a recurring role in ten episodes as a neighbor of Archie Bunker in All in the Family, in which he is almost unrecognizable from his early years. Here are contrasting pictures:

Facts culled from IMDb.

It was a glorious though brisk day in Brooklyn. Unfortunately, there wasn't much action at the floating book shop. My thanks to the woman who purchased The Spy by Celeste Bradley, and to the woman who donated Tom Wolfe's Bonfires of the Vanities, which she'd purchased two weeks ago.
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