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The Prizefighter and the Lady is a 1933 pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer romance film starring Myrna Loy and the professional boxers Max Baer, Primo Carnera, and Jack Dempsey. The film was adapted for the screen by John Lee Mahin and John Meehan from a story by Frances Marion .
The Prizefighter and the Lady: Directed by W.S. Van Dyke, Howard Hawks. With Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey. An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
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- Comedy, Crime, Romance
- W.S. Van Dyke, Howard Hawks
- 1933-11-10
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Myrna Loy stars as a nightclub queen who captures the heart of a boxer with a wandering eye in the romantic comedy The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933). Directed by W.S. 'Woody' Van Dyke, the film features exciting fight scenes and cameos by real-life boxing stars of the day such as Max Baer (the title pugilist), Jess Willard, Jim Jeffries and ...
Steve (real-life boxer Max Baer) is a brash bartender whose knock-out power is discovered by the Professor (Walter Huston), an alcoholic ex-fight trainer.
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- W. S. Van Dyke II
- Comedy
- Myrna Loy
Summaries. An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title. Steve is just a heavy duty bartender when Edwin J. Bennett, known as the Professor, starts training him for the ring. While doing road work, he is almost killed by a speeding car which crashes into a ditch. In the car is Belle Mercer and her driver.
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The Prizefighter and the Lady is a 1933 pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer romance film starring Myrna Loy and the professional boxers Max Baer, Primo Carnera, and Jack Dempsey. The film was adapted for the screen by John Lee Mahin and John Meehan from a story by Frances Marion.