Max Baer Movie On TCM Tonight

[sport historian]

The 1933 film, The Prizefighter and the Lady, is on TCM tonight at 9:30 pm. It's major interest is Max Baer stars with Myrna Loy. It came out the year before Baer stopped Primo Carnera for the title.

 

[Gary]

I really would like to see that movie, not only Max Baer is in it but Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey, Jess Willard, Jim Jeffries, Frank Moran, Billy Papke and the great wrestler Ed "Strangler" Lewis.

 

[sport historian]

I taped it the other night, but haven't had time to watch it. My understanding is that Baer basically played himself in the movie. When Max played the heavyweight champion in the 1956 film, The Harder They Fall, he played a character totally unlike himself. The flaw in Cinderella Man is that they seem to have taken the character Baer played in The Harder They Fall, and put him in Cinderella Man.