till the fat lady sings & until the last bell rings

[Laurence Horn]

>On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>>  Near the end of a 1933 movie, "The Primo Canera Story," someone says (during
>>  a championship boxing scene), "It's not over till the last bell rings." (The
>>  fight ends in a draw, by the way.)
>>
>>  The metrical similarity to "... till the fat lady sings" is certainly close.
>>  Is there any historical connection?
>
>I don't see this movie on Internet Movie Database, and only one possible
>reference to it from Google.  Can you give more details about the film and
>how you became aware of this line being in it?  Did you actually view the
>film?
>
It would be "The Primo CaRnera Story".

Larry