Several former boxing champions, wrestling champs and noted football players, and athletes are among the men attending the Jack Dempsey dinner in the film. Also, they all join in the fight at the New York docks, helping the independent cab drivers against the Comet cab company. Among them are former world heavyweight champs Dempsey and James J. Jeffries, former world light heavyweight champion Maxie Rosenbloom, former All-American athlete and double Olympic gold medal winner Jim Thorpe, and George Godfrey, Rex 'Snowy' Baker, Man Mountain Dean, and Cotton Warburton.
Cotton Warburton (born Irvine Eugene Warburton), who appears amid the Jack Dempsey dinner crowd, is a former All-American quarterback for USC. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1975. As a film editor with Walt Disney studios, Warburton won an Academy Award for his work on Mary Poppins (1964).
This film was a success at the box office, earning MGM a profit of $462,000 ($8.95M in 2022) according to studio records.
Spencer Tracy had previously worked with director Frank Borzage when they were at Fox in Young America (1932) and Ceux de la zone (1933). They would work again twice more at MGM in Mannequin (1937) and I Take This Woman (1940).
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