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5 unusual facts about Maxie Rosenbloom


Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

His cohort, Hinds (Maxie Rosenbloom), sabotages their parachute and arranges for live bullets to be fired from the other plane in the scene, but Harry and Willie manage to avoid harm.

Maxie Rosenbloom

The subsequent movie, in which Rosenbloom did not appear, also starred Jackie Gleason, who was very good friends with Maxie.

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.

Smart Alecks

Hank Salko (Gabriel Dell), a member of the Eastside youth gang in New York, is initiated into the world of adult crime when two gangsters, Mike (Joe Kirk) and Butch Brocalli (Maxie Rosenbloom), hire him to stand watch while they rob a bank.

Tiger Jack Fox

His first loss was by a split decision to light heavyweight champion Maxie Rosenbloom.



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