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Maxie Rosenbloom

Maxie Rosenbloom

Actor · 1907 – 1976 · Leonard's Bridge, Connecticut, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Max Everitt Rosenbloom (November 1, 1907 – March 6, 1976) was an American boxer, actor, and television personality. Born in Leonard Bridge, Connecticut, Rosenbloom was nicknamed "Slapsie Maxie" by a journalist due to his open-gloved style of boxing. In 1930, he won the New York light heavyweight title. In 1932, he won the World Light Heavyweight Championship. He held and defended the title until November 1934, when he lost it to Bob Olin. As a professional boxer, Rosenbloom relied on hitting and moving to score points. He was very difficult to hit cleanly with a power punch and his fights often went the full number of required rounds. In his boxing career, he received thousands of punches to the head, which eventually led to the deterioration of his motor functions. In 1937, he accepted a role in a Hollywood film. He became a character actor, portraying comical "big guys" in movies that included Each Dawn I Die, and Maxie retired from boxing permanently in 1939. Slapsy Maxie's, the first comedy club, opened in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He continued acting on radio, television, and in a number of films, usually playing comedy roles as a big, clumsy, punch-drunk—but lovable—character. He appeared in a number of episodes (playing himself) of The Fred Allen Show—including a skit with Marlene Dietrich. Rosenbloom played an important part in television's first 90-minute drama, Requiem for a Heavyweight, written by Rod Serling, and starring Jack Palance as a boxer at the end of his career. Rosenbloom played an ex-boxer, whose life revolved around retelling old boxing stories night after night to other ex-boxers in a down-and-out bar. It is the fate that looms for Mountain McClintock, Palance's character, if he cannot adjust to a new life outside the ring. Slapsy Maxie's, his nightclub, is prominently featured in a 2013 crime film, Gangster Squad, which is set in 1949. The club, which actually operated in 1939 at 7165 Beverly Blvd and from 1943 to 1947, was located at 5665 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles.

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  • Movie6.0

    Swing Fever

    1943 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Each Dawn I Die

    1939 · 64 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Hollywood or Bust

    1956 · 79 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Mr. Moto's Gamble

    1938 · 22 votes

  • Movie5.5

    To the Shores of Tripoli

    1942 · 17 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Nothing Sacred

    1937 · 116 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Mister Universe

    1951 · 3 votes

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    The Perils of Pauline

    1947 · 11 votes

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    The Spy in the Green Hat

    1967 · 16 votes

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    Ringside Maisie

    1941 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Irish Eyes Are Smiling

    1944 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Bellboy

    1960 · 129 votes

  • Movie6.8

    My Side of the Mountain

    1969 · 26 votes

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    20,000 Men a Year

    1939 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Harvard Here I Come

    1941 · 4 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Men in Her Diary

    1945 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Women in the Wind

    1939 · 5 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Naughty but Nice

    1939 · 8 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Public Deb No. 1

    1940 · 5 votes

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    Three of a Kind

    1944 · 1 votes

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  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

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    What's My Line?

    1950 · 29 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Donna Reed Show

    1958 · 19 votes

  • TV7.8

    I Dream of Jeannie

    1965 · 845 votes

  • TV7.9

    The Munsters

    1964 · 488 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    1964 · 75 votes

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    Playhouse 90

    1956 · 10 votes