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Black New Yorkers celebrating the victory of heavyweight boxer Joe Louis over Max Baer, September 30, 1935.

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Happy birthday, Max Baer Jr.

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Max Baer-Myrna Loy-Otto Kruger "El boxeador y la dama" (The prizefighter and the lady) 1933, de W. S. Van Dyke, Howard Hawks.

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(Original Caption) Max Baer, former Heavyweight Champion, and Mickey Rooney, Movie Picture Box Office Champion, talk things over while "working out" here during Max's visit to the MGM studios, where Mickey is working on 𝑯𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒆𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒏 (1939).

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Max Baer does an act with comedians George Givot, Benny Rubin, and fellow boxer-turned-actor Slapsy Maxie.

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Max Baer and Primo Carnera meet in the ring in MGM's The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933) with Larry McGrath as the referee. After his 1933 MGM contract expired, Howard Hawks was happy to return to Columbia Pictures to make his first comedy masterpiece, Twentieth Century. He would never work at MGM again.

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Max Baer and Primo Carnera square off.

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Ode to Billie Joe

A mention of this song by Pete in one of his blog posts a couple of nights ago sent an earworm into my head that has been rattling around in there all day long!  I’ve only played this once, back in 2018, so it’s time for a redux tonight! They made a movie out of this one … the song came out in 1967, the movie nine years later in 1976.  The song was written and recorded by Bobbie Gentry, a…

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Del Fontaine - Middleweight champ and murderer.

Some time ago we looked at heavyweight contender Henry ‘Snow’ Flakes. Once one of America’s most promising young boxers, Flakes went from Madison Square Garden to Sing Sing’s electric chair. Twice Canadian middleweight champion, Fontaine went from fighting at London’s Royal Albert Hall to the gallows at Wandsworth Prison. Fontaine was certainly guilty, but questions remain about his mental state…

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Jimmy Durante, Peter Lorre, and Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World Max Baer at The Brown Derby in 1938.

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A Light in Darkness

Above: For this Hollywood-heavy post we feature stars of the 1930s—the two Joans, Joan Blondell (left) and Joan Crawford, marking the Fourth of July holiday. The New Yorker marked the Fourth of July with this William Steig cover featuring a patriotic “strap” along the binding and one of his precocious “Small Fry”… June 30, 1934 cover by William Steig. We’ve been looking at ways New Yorkers kept…

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