The Max Baer TV & Movie thread

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Just thought that I would start a thread on the film and television appearences of Max Baer.
Here is a brief clip of Max Baer (at age 49 y) in his final film ONCE UPON A HORSE ( released 1958)
(also in it was his brother Buddy Baer )

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Here is Max Baer (as himself) in an episode SO THIS IS HOLLYWOOD which aired in February 1955.
(if you dont want to watch the entire episode then go to about 14:30 of this clip,were he comes in)

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here is Max Baer in an episode of The Abbott & Costello Show which aired in 1953.
(with an appearance by Lou Nova )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6zAgyl_9qc

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here is Max Baer(age 44 yrs) in an episode of The Abbott & Costello Show KILLER'S WIFE which aired in 1953.
(with a brief appearance by Lou Nova ( age 40 yr) at 18:22 of the clip )

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Here is Max Baer (as himself age 46 yrs) in an episode SO THIS IS HOLLYWOOD which aired in February 1955.
(if you dont want to watch the entire episode then go to about 14:30 of this clip,were Ma Baer comes in to the episode)
Who needs Re-Flex's ?

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Max Baer (age 29 yrs) in FISTICUFFS (1938).

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Max turned in a really great performance in The Harder They Fall. A great boxing movie, even though it was an anti-boxing movie.

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If you was to arsk me,directer Ron Howard should have just subsituted Max Baer's name
with that of "Buddy Brannon" as the HW champiuon for the movie CINDERELLA MAN.

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Wanna see Max Baer with some really cool looking ahead of the time sideburns and wearing a fringe-jacket
like like the get-up worn by "Billy" in Easy Rider ?
then check him out as "Tiny" in the 1943 "oater" BUCKSKIN FRONTIER
(He is in the movie from the beginning but the real action begins at 26.05 of this clip")

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How much do you think that keg of nails that Max Baer picks up at 3:30 of the clip weighed ?
I seem to remember he also was told to pick up a keg in the 1933 movie
THE PRIZE FIGHTER AND THE LADY in the saloon scene.
they seem to snicker when he does it.
Someone in Hollywood must have got a kick seeing him pick up a keg for some reason.

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A keg of nails weighs 100 pounds and picking one up just like that is not as easy as you may think.

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check out the action beginning at approx. 22:00 of this clip
( at age 48 yrs)