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The Prizefighter and the Lady ()

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An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
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Belle
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Steve
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Carnera
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Promoter
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Professor
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Willie Ryan
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Bugsie
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Adopted Son
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Linda
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Showgirl
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Woman in Bar (uncredited)
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Dancer (uncredited)
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Reporter at Training Camp (uncredited)
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Stool-Pigeon Maid (uncredited)
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Bar Patron #4 (uncredited)
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Reporter (uncredited)
Billy Coe ...
Billy Cow - Timekeeper for Big Fight (uncredited)
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Farmer's Daughter (uncredited)
Bill Duffy ...
Bill Duffy - Carnera's Manager (uncredited)
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Ryan's Associate (uncredited)
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Bar Patron #1 (uncredited)
Jackie Fields ...
Self - Ex-Welterweight Champion (uncredited)
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Man in Steve's Dressing Room (uncredited)
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Sid Munsie (uncredited)
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Maitre d' (uncredited)
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Ringside Fan (uncredited)
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Self - Ex-Heavyweight Champion (uncredited)
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Bar Patron #5 (uncredited)
Donald Kerr ...
Reporter (uncredited)
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Self - Ex-Wrestling Champion 'Strangler Lewis' (uncredited)
Miriam Marlin ...
Chorine (uncredited)
Larry McGrath ...
Referee (uncredited)
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Professor's Drinking Buddy (uncredited)
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Self - Heavyweight Boxer (uncredited)
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Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
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Jake - Fight Promoter (uncredited)
Billy Papke ...
Self - Middleweight Champion (uncredited)
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Bar Patron #6 (uncredited)
Joe Rivers ...
Self - Lightweight Boxer (uncredited)
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Ringsider (uncredited)
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Newsboy (uncredited)
José Santa ...
Self - Heavyweight Boxer (uncredited)
Nicholas Schenck ...
Prizefight Spectator (uncredited)
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Farmer's Son (uncredited)
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Minor Role (uncredited)
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Bar Patron #3 (uncredited)
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Self - Ring Announcer for the Big Fight (uncredited)
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Mr. Black - Fight Promoter (uncredited)
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Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Jess Willard ...
Self - Ex-Heavyweight Champion (uncredited)
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Training Camp Observer (uncredited)
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George Lyons (uncredited)

Directed by

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W.S. Van Dyke
Howard Hawks ... (uncredited)

Written by

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John Lee Mahin ... (screen play) and
John Meehan ... (screen play)
 
Frances Marion ... (from the story by)

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Hunt Stromberg ... associate producer
W.S. Van Dyke ... producer

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Lester White ... (photographed by)

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Robert Kern ... film editor (as Robert J. Kern)

Casting By

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Ben Piazza ... (uncredited)

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Fredric Hope
David Townsend

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Earl Haley ... assistant director (uncredited)

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Edwin B. Willis ... interior decorator

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Douglas Shearer ... recording director

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Harvey Parry ... stunt coordinator (uncredited)

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Dolly Tree ... wardrobe

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Paul Marquardt ... music arranger (uncredited)
Frank Skinner ... music arranger (uncredited)

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Seymour Felix ... vaudeville sketch by
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Plot Summary

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. Steve takes Belle to a farmhouse and is smitten by her, but she is Willie Ryan's girl. The fight is a breeze and later, Steve again meets Belle with Willie. That night, Steve and Belle disappear and return married, much to Ryan's disappointment. Then Steve starts training in earnest and is 19 for 19 in the ring. However, he has an eye for the women and an expanding ego to match. Written by Tony Fontana

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Taglines Girls! There's a new passion in your life! See more »
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Also Known As
  • The Broadway Racket (United States)
  • The Conquering Sex (United States)
  • The Sailor and the Lady (United States)
  • Un coeur, deux poings (France)
  • Le héros des dames (France)
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  • 102 min
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Budget $682,000 (estimated)

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Trivia According to an article in Daily Variety in March 1934, the movie was banned by the Nazi government of Germany because Max Baer was Jewish. When asked about it, Baer joked, "They didn't ban me because I was Jewish. They banned me because I knocked out Max Schmeling in the ring." See more »
Goofs Steve buttons up his sweater, straightens the bottom and puts his hands in his pockets in one shot with the Professor. In the next shot, when he's facing Belle, he buttons the bottom buttons again (before putting his hands in his pockets again). See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Sports on the Silver Screen (1997). See more »
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Quotes [Sitting at a nightclub table, Steve Morgan notices gangster Willie Ryan's elderly, sour-faced bodyguard]
Steve: I didn't meet you, did I?
Willie Ryan: That's my "adopted son."
Steve: Rather big for his age, isn't he?
Willie Ryan: [ominously] Yeah, he follows me around, keeps the flies off me. He's got a good aim with a..."flyswatter."
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