The Prizefighter and the Lady

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. Marion was nominated for …






[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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