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...favorite Hollywood publicity dodges has been the practice of filling pictures with those of famous name, regardless of their acting ability; this genus of fake reaches its ultimate development in "The Prizefighter and the Lady." To begin with, Max Baer is cast in the leading role; then one finds wadded in here and there such notables as Jack Dempsey, Primo Carnera, Jess Willard, Jeffries, Strangler Lewis, and a positive swarm of middleweight, lightweight, anyweight champions, past and present. It goes without saying that most of these worthies appear for about ten seconds, and are barely visible to the naked...
...impostors ride expansively up Broadway. When Pearl recognizes the fundament of his Aunt Sophie who is washing a window, he plunges head-down in the automobile and Durante, with a vulgarity at once extravagantly bold and strangely shy, notes the family resemblance. In a broadcasting studio the fake Baron, innocent of an adventurous past, fakes an outrageous one. His "Vass you dere?" squelches all doubts, hugely amuses his studio audience...
...capture. Many a policeman's wife telephoned headquarters to learn if her husband had been wounded. The sheriff of nearby Cook County. III. doubled his highway patrol. Indiana's Governor McNutt telephoned to learn what was happening. He was told that the whole thing was a fake...
...entirely a fake. The managers of Columbia Broadcasting's Station WIND, knowing that police were searching a wooded section near Chesterton for the escaped desperadoes, had taken a microphone to the scene and were broadcasting what they could get. Captain Matt Leach of the Indiana State Troopers spoiled the fun. He arrested the broadcasters and to the Federal Radio Commission dispatched an irate complaint...
...slovenly Baltimore family with one respectable relative are happily starving and avoiding the eye of Work. Plot: a daughter gets an Italian count and the uncle gets $25,000 in the stockmarket. Then they lose the $25,000 in the stockmarket and the count is suspected of being a fake, writing a bad check, stealing the engagement pin he has given his fiancée and running away in a stolen car. In a weak third act he returns to disprove all charges and the family revives its punch-drunk fortunes in the stockmarket. Characters: the raucous, cynical daughter (Claire...