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Robert "Bobby" Jordan (April 1, 1923 – September 10, 1965) was an American actor, born in Harrison, New York, most notable for being a member of the Dead End Kids, the East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys.
Bobby Jordan was a talented toddler and by the time he was six years old, he could sing, tap dance and play the saxophone. At the age of four, he was working in an early film version of A Christmas Carol.
His mother took him to talent shows in and around Harrison, New York. He also modeled for newspaper and magazine advertisements, and appeared in short films and radio programs. In the late 1920s, his family moved to the upper west side of Manhattan. In 1929, he was cast as Charles Hildebrand in the 1929 Broadway play, Street Scene.
Though he was the youngest, Jordan was the first of the boys who made up the Dead End Kids to work in films, with a role in a 1933 Universal short. In 1935, he became one of the original Dead End Kids by winning the role of Angel in Sydney Kingsley's Broadway drama Dead End, about life in the slums of the east side New York City. The play was performed at the Belasco Theatre, and ran for three years with over 600 performances. He appeared for the first season and the beginning of the second, but left in mid-November 1936. He returned in time to join the others in 1937 in Hollywood to make the movie version of the play, starring big names such as Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney and Claire Trevor.
Jordan ( /ˈdʒɔr.dən/;Arabic: اَلأُرْدُنّ, Al-'Urdunn), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (Arabic: اَلمَمْلَكَة اَلأُرْدُنِيَّة اَلهَاشِمِيَّة), Al-Mamlakah Al-Urdaniyyah Al-Hashimiyyah) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing control of the Dead Sea with the latter. Jordan's only port is at its south-western tip, at the Gulf of Aqaba, which is shared with Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Over half of Jordan is covered by the Arabian Desert. However, the western part of Jordan is arable land and forests. Jordan is part of the Fertile Crescent. The capital city is Amman. According to the CIA World Factbook, Jordan has the second highest life expectancy in the Middle East, after Israel. The average life expectancy is one position behind the United Kingdom, although the age remains exactly the same (80.05 years).
The precursor to modern Jordan was founded in 1921 as the Hashemite Emirate, and it was recognized by the League of Nations as a state under the British mandate in 1922 known as The Emirate of Transjordan. In 1946, Jordan became an independent sovereign state officially known as the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan. After capturing the West Bank area of Cisjordan during the 1948–49 war with Israel, Abdullah I took the title King of Jordan and Palestine, and he officially changed the country's name to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in April 1949.
RADIO STATION | GENRE | LOCATION |
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Mazaj 95.3 FM | World Middle East | Jordan |
Beat FM (JO) | Pop | Jordan |
Sawt el Ghad Amman | World Middle East | Jordan |
Halimiat | World Middle East | Jordan |
BOBBY JORDAN - THE DEAD END KID
Tribute to Bobby Jordan
Region 5: Bobby Jordan of Woodbridge defeats Evan Drill of Somerville, 113lbs
Pinklon Thomas - Bobby Jordan
SMART ALECKS (1942) The East Side Kids - Leo Gorcey - Huntz Hall - Bobby Jordan
Bobby Jordan and Eric Benson Fight w/Kix
Bobby Jordan vs Bayland Rippenkroeger
Madtv - Ike and Bobby teaching Jordan how to drive
Bobby Jordan and the Ridgecreek Band
Madtv S11E03 24 with Bobby & Jordan
Actors: Jayvo Scott (actor), Lisa Arcaro (actress), Ken Barr (producer), Ken Barr (writer), Ken Barr (director), Jeshua Len (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: Barney A. Sarecky (producer), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), William Beaudine (director), Gabriel Dell (actor), Francis Ford (actor), Bernard Gorcey (actor), Leo Gorcey (actor), Buddy Gorman (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Frank Jaquet (actor), Bobby Jordan (actor), Ian Keith (actor), Fred Kelsey (actor), Kenneth MacDonald (actor), Jack Mulhall (actor),
Plot: Copy boys Muggs and Glimpy investigate a murder. They locate the ex-wife of the murdered man and become convinced she is innocent. They hide her from the police while they investigate.
Keywords: 1940s, apartment, b-movie, bow-tie, bowery-manhattan-new-york-city, brawl, chase, cigarette-smoking, copyboy, criminalActors: Milton Schwarzwald (producer), Bobby Jordan (actor), Carl Laemmle (miscellaneous crew), Ray Mayer (actor), Bill Robinson (actor), Leon Janney (actor), Lynn Shores (director), Ballard MacDonald (writer), Louis Williams (actor), Edith Evans (actress), Ann Seymour (actress), Four Mullen Sisters (actress), Albert Whitman (actor), Rae Samuels (actress),
Plot: A grab-bag of singers and dancers featuring, at the time, New York-based performers such as Rae Sanuels, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, the four Mullen Sisters and the team of Evans & Mayer. Dancers Pops & Louie (Albert Whitman and Louis Williams), later to be seen in Republic's "Hit Parade of 1943", are also along.
Genres: Music, Short,