Movie · 1938
King of the Newsboys
“MEN IN THE MAKING But what kind of men grow out of the squalor of the tenements...from the sordid back alleys of the slums?”
Released 18 March 1938 65 min Drama / Romance More from 1938 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
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How old were they?
Alison Skipworth
as Nora
Oscar O'Shea
as Mr. Stephens
Marjorie Main
as Mrs. Stephens (uncredited)
Victor Varconi
as Wire Arno
Jack Pennick
as Lefty
Byron Foulger
as Gazette Owner (uncredited)
Alice White
as Dolly
Ray Cooke
as Pussy
Horace McMahon
as Lockjaw
Lew Ayres
as Jerry Flynn
Sheila Bromley
as Connie Madison
Helen Mack
as Mary Ellen Stephens
Mary Kornman
as Peggy
William Benedict
as Squimpy
Gloria Rich
as Maizie
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The numbers
54years between the oldest and youngest billed
74Alison Skipworth — oldest on the call sheet
20William Benedict — youngest billed
37average age of the credited cast