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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,859 posts) Sat Dec 4, 2021, 01:02 PM Dec 2021

The actor, screenwriter, producer, & director, Max Baer Jr. was #BornOnThisDay, Dec. 4, 1937.

The actor, screenwriter, producer, & director, Max Baer Jr. was #BornOnThisDay, Dec. 4, 1937. Known for playing "Jethro" on The #Beverly #Hillbillies. Baer wrote & produced the film, Macon County Line (1974). Made for only US $1.1 million, it grossed over $30 million! #birthday

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The actor, screenwriter, producer, & director, Max Baer Jr. was #BornOnThisDay, Dec. 4, 1937. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 OP

The last of the Beverly Hillbillies. I'd might never have guessed he'd outlive them all. hlthe2b Dec 2021 #1

And his father's character was the antagonist is another movie rsdsharp Dec 2021 #2

His father gladium et scutum Dec 2021 #4

Partially true. James Braddock defeated Max Baer Sr. in June 1935 rsdsharp Dec 2021 #5

What might have been. Cartoonist Dec 2021 #3

hlthe2b

(102,636 posts)

1. The last of the Beverly Hillbillies. I'd might never have guessed he'd outlive them all.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sat Dec 4, 2021, 01:29 PM

Dec 2021

But talented in a way most would not have imagined from his "Jethro."

rsdsharp

(9,259 posts)

2. And his father's character was the antagonist is another movie

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sat Dec 4, 2021, 02:26 PM

Dec 2021

Ron Howard’s The Cinderella Man.

gladium et scutum

(810 posts)

4. His father

Reply to rsdsharp (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 4, 2021, 08:24 PM

Dec 2021

was the world's heavy weight boxing champion in 1935 and 36

rsdsharp

(9,259 posts)

5. Partially true. James Braddock defeated Max Baer Sr. in June 1935

Reply to gladium et scutum (Reply #4)

Sat Dec 4, 2021, 08:52 PM

Dec 2021

to win the heavyweight championship — making him The Cinderella Man, according to Damon Runyon. Ron Howard chose to portray Baer as a womanizing brute in the movie. Baer did accidentally kill a man in the ring, and was happy go lucky, but he was generally considered a nice guy.

Braddock defended the title only once, losing to Joe Louis in June 1937.

Cartoonist

(7,329 posts)

3. What might have been.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sat Dec 4, 2021, 03:33 PM

Dec 2021

I read that when James Garner left the Rockford Files, they considered Max as his replacement. I think it would have worked.

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