till the fat lady sings & until the last bell rings

[Jonathan Lighter]

Sounds to me like it was_The Prizefighter and the Lady_ (1933), starring  Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Walter Huston, Otto Kruger, and Primo Carnera.

JL

Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
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>> 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


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