After several years as a radio juvenile, Billy was cast as "Tommy Gordon" in the Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's Dead End in 1935, and traveled to Hollywood with the rest of the Dead End Kids when Samuel Goldwyn produced a film version of the play in 1937.
He appeared on Broadway in the 1935 production of Dead End, a play written and directed by Sidney Kingsley.
Sidney Poitier | Ben Kingsley | Sidney Lumet | Sidney Nolan | Sidney Bechet | Philip Sidney | Kingsley Amis | Sidney Crosby | Charles Kingsley | Albert Sidney Johnston | Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea | Sidney | Sylvia Sidney | Sidney Reilly | Sidney Altman | Mary Kingsley | Sidney Paget | Sidney Howard | Sidney Colvin | Kingsley | Henry Sidney | Sidney Smith | Sidney Lee | Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin | Sidney Cotton | Sidney Blumenthal | Perrey and Kingsley | Donald Sidney-Fryer | Bob Kingsley | William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle |
In the penultimate chapter, “The New Realism,” brief attention is given to Susan Glaspell, Arthur Richman, Elmer Rice, Sophie Treadwell, John Howard Lawson, Paul Green, Paul & Claire Sifton, George Sklar & Albert Maltz, Paul Peters & George Sklar, John Wexley, Clifford Odets, Albert Bein, Irwin Shaw, Emanuel Eisenberg, Sidney Kingsley, Marc Blitzstein, and Ben Bengal.