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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.
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 .
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"The Prizefighter and the Lady" is a fictional comedy romance built around a real live prizefighter. It's unique in a number of ways. The most obvious, as other reviewers note, is that the cast has three men who held the title of world heavy weight boxing champion.
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 ...
The Prizefighter and the Lady. Steve (real-life boxer Max Baer) is a brash bartender whose knock-out power is discovered by the Professor (Walter Huston), an alcoholic...
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The prizefighter is the real deal – real-life World Heavyweight Champion Max Baer in an acclaimed performance. The lady – she’s the real deal, too: Myrna Loy, just before...
The Prizefighter and the Lady is a film directed by W.S. Van Dyke, Howard Hawks with Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey .... Year: 1933. Original title: The Prizefighter and the Lady. Synopsis: Steve is just a heavy duty bartender when Edwin J. Bennett, known as the Professor, starts training him for the ring.
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title. W.S. Van Dyke. Director. John Lee Mahin. Screenplay. John Meehan. Screenplay. Frances Marion. Story.
The Prizefighter and the Lady ★★★ Every Woman's Man 1933. In his first film role boxer Baer (who won the heavyweight boxing crown in 1934) is a natural as a fighter who falls for a beautiful nightclub singer (Loy).
