Of the six original Broadway-to-Hollywood Dead End Kids, Bernard seemed to “fly under the radar” a bit, and may have been the original “Background Bennie” (as Huntz Hall liked to call the various actors who later populated the gang, but were relegated to the “background” with little — or no — lines to speak). Punsly, it seems, just didn’t have the show-biz ambitions that the others exhibited; he was the first to leave the series but, as Leo Gorcey recalls in this rare interview, Bernard was later to emerge as the group’s biggest success story! You can see all my Bowery Boys videos at bowery-bijou.blogspot.com