Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him.
Acting
Jimmy Durante's nasal chaos and Lupe Vélez's firecracker energy.
Costume
Trixie's wardrobe working harder than the script.
Director
Benjamin Stoloff
Jimmy Durante
Knobby Walsh
Lupe Vélez
Nina Madero
Stuart Erwin
Joe Palooka
Marjorie Rambeau
Mayme Palooka
Thelma Todd
Trixie
Robert Armstrong
Pete Palooka
Mary Carlisle
Anne Howe
William Cagney
Al McSwatt
Franklyn Ardell
Doc Wise
Tom Dugan
Whitey
Louise Beavers
Crystal
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Smokey (as Snowflake)
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Slats (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a popular comic strip that ran until 1984—Joe Palooka was literally the 'aw shucks' archetype for 50 years.
Thelma Todd died mysteriously two years later; her 'accident' remains Hollywood's creepiest cold case.
1934
1946
1946
8.01947
8.01948
7.51948
6.01949
1949
4.01950
7.01950
1950
1951
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