He's not listed in the credits, but if you go to Lumet's bio, it says he played one of the kids, and furthermore, in his Oscar retrospective, they also mention his involvement in this film.
He played the part of one of the boy's in the stage production of Dead End which started in New York City 1935.
shareI can't believe I'm answering this because I haven't seen this film in like 5 years. But there was a kid in the movie- a rich kid, a pampered kid, something like that. At the beginning. *beep* this is hazy. Well, Lumet played the nice kid that dressed nice and did everything nice. That's all I remember.
sharethat really didn't answer anything did it?
shareCharles Peck played Philip Griswald, the well dressed pampered rich kid, in the movie version. Sidney Lumet played the bit part in the Broadway play version.
Just remember: I was as good as any and better then most-Vincent Freeman in Gattaca
ohhh. well, at least i got the rich pampered kid part right.
shareLumet's character was unnamed...he was billed as "small boy" in the play. He was 11 yrs old at the time.
I don't think I want to go to the pictures. Oh?Why not? I've seen everything worth seeing.
Four years later: Lumet had a prominent role in a 1939 film called ONE THIRD OF A NATION, which also co-starred Sylvia Sydney and also concerned slum life. Maybe that's where some of the confusiopn stems.
"May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?"