Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first preview of Woman Chases Man, the audience's response to incidents like this was eminently satisfactory. Best sequences: Travis applying for a job; B. J. cooking hunter's thrush; the fight for the pen with which Kenneth is to sign the contract parodying the fight for the pistol which is the great traditional ending of Westerns...
...since the resounding failure of that venture in 1933. Kid Galahad, adapted from a realistic Saturday Evening Post story by Francis Wallace, improves on the old formula by concerning itself less with the ring prowess of its hero, Ward Guisenberry (Wayne Morris) than with the grimy background of the fight industry as exemplified by his manager, Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson). Nicknamed Kid Galahad when, as an unsophisticated bellhop, he knocks out the heavyweight champion of the world for insulting Nick's mistress, Fluff (Bette Davis), at a hotel orgy, Ward finds himself plunged into a melange of chicanery...
...screen. The picture exhibits pugilism's backstage activities in bars, night clubs and areaways with such faithfulness that an audience of sportswriters, managers and boxing officials invited to a Manhattan preview last week amused themselves by trying to identify the characters. Said Madison Square Garden's jaunty Fight-Promoter Jimmy Johnston, who is currently embroiled with the New York State Athletic Commission, when Nick Donati tells Ward to meet him at the Commission's office: "That guy can't be me. The Commissioners...
...unknown young Los Angeles actor who had been picked for the title role. Handsome Wayne Morris, 23, whose athletic activities at Los Angeles Junior College (see p. 44) had been confined to football, basketball and fencing, trained for a month before shooting started. In the picture, his fight for the heavyweight championship was far more strenuous than most real heavyweight contests. It lasted a week. When it ended his opponent (William Haade, a onetime steelworker) was hospitalized for a fortnight with an ankle sprained by falling at the knockout. In the picture, Kid Galahad's most spectacular victory before...
...Confederate and Union veterans of the 47-day siege of Vicksburg, Miss., went Colonel Ulysses Simpson Grant III U.S.A. and Manhattan Lawyer John Clifford Pernberton III, grandsons respectively of Vicksburg's Union besieger and Confederate defender. Said Grandson Grant, shaking hands: "Two good Generals and a great fight." Said Grandson Pemberton: "Yes, but they paid off on your grand-daddy...