Stanley Clements then joined the touring company of the Major Bowes Amateur Hour.
12 Facts About Stanley Clements
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Stanley Clements's career stalled in 1940, and Clements was reduced to panhandling for a time to survive.
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Stanley Clements appeared as an East Side Kid in Smart Alecks, 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge, and Ghosts on the Loose.
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Stanley Clements retained the character name of "Stash" in other films: Right to the Heart, Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang, and Boots Malone.
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The marriage was a stormy one, with Grahame objecting to Stanley Clements's drinking and gambling, and Stanley Clements being jealous of her dalliances with other men, and it ended in 1948.
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Stanley Clements was featured in perhaps his best-known role as teenage street-tough-turned-choirboy "Tony Scaponi" in the 1944 Bing Crosby hit Going My Way, and scored a great success as a jockey in the 1945 Alan Ladd feature Salty O'Rourke.
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Stanley Clements's acting career was interrupted by US Army service as a private first class just after World War II.
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Stanley Clements comfortably settled into the role of Huntz Hall's sidekick, and co-starred in the final seven Bowery Boys comedies, beginning with Fighting Trouble.
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Stanley Clements co-wrote the film The Devil's Partner.
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Stanley Clements appeared in an episode of Gomer Pyle USMC entitled "Sergeant of The Guard" aired April 2,1965.
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On October 16,1981, Stanley Clements died at age 55 from emphysema in Pasadena, California, 11 days after the passing of his first wife Gloria Grahame.
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Stanley Clements is buried at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California.