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Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 188-189. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387

Leo went to the altar one last time in February, 1968, marrying Mary Gannon.

The couple divorced in 1962.

They had a baby girl, Brandy Jo, in 1958.

They divorced in 1956. That year Leo married his young nanny, Brandy, who was taking care of his two kids.

He left the Bowery Boys after his father, Bernard, also a frequent co-star in the series, was killed in an auto accident in 1955.

He and his agent, Jan Grippo, owned "The Bowery Boys" franchise being produced at Monogram. Dispite his b-movie status, this supposedly made him one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood. Grippo was credited as producer until he left the series in 1951 following the death of his wife.

In 1949, Leo married Amelita Ward, whom he met while filming Smugglers' Cove (1948). Their marriage produced Leo Gorcey Jr.

in 1949, and a baby girl they named Jan (after Leo's producer and manager, Jan Grippo) in 1951.

In 1945, Leo married Evalene Bankston; they divorced in 1948. Leo was to have paid her $50,000 in a divorce settlement; however, when two detectives she hired broke into his home, he retaliated by firing his gun at them. They sued, and Leo countersued for illegal entry and won $35,000 back.

They divorced in 1944 after five years of marriage; she went on to marry Groucho Marx.

When Gorcey was making one of his few non-Dead End Kids/East Side Kids/Bowery Boys films, 1941's Out of the Fog (1941), he repeatedly blew a simple line of dialog. Fed up, director Anatole Litvak stormed over to him and shouted, "Gorcey, as an actor, you stink!" Stung by this rebuke, Gorcey let fly with a burst of retaliatory fireworks of his own - "Don't you ever, ever scream at me like that again!," Gorcey shouted back, and stormed off the set. A few hours later, he was back, did the scene again ... and blew the line again. This time, Litvak walked over to him quietly, calmly and whispered in his ear, "Gorcey, as an actor, you still stink. And notice that, this time, I'm not shouting.".

In 1939, Leo married 17-year-old dancer Kay Marvis, who appeared in four of his movies.

" In 1937, this was made into a movie, and Leo became one of the busiest actors for the next 20 years -- from 1937-1939 he starred in seven Dead End Kids movies, from 1940-1945 in 21 East Side Kids films, from 1946-1956 in 41 Bowery Boys movies.

In 1935, Leo and David appeared in the stage play "Dead End.

In 1921 his brother David Gorcey was born.

In 1917, Leo was born, a large baby at 12 lb. 3 oz. ; as an adult he would be 5' 6".

In 1915, 14-year-old Josephine gave birth to Fred.

Leo Gorcey's parents were actor Bernard Gorcey (born 1888) who stood 4' 10", and Josephine Condon (born 1901), who stood 4' 11" and weighed 95 pounds; they worked in vaudeville in New York.