Dempsey Spars A Round With Schmeling .

He had a relatively high voice, but the audio in this clip is distorted to a higher pitch.

 

Schmeling's voice sounds high-pitched to me also. The little guy in the middle sounds most high-pitched of all. But all these voices sound masculine to me. If a woman with a low-pitched voice is put into this group, she still sounds like a woman.

But if you want a deep voice, try Rock Hudson.

By the way, why did Rock Hudson have such a deep voice? Injury, actually. Hollywood actors had a trick. When they had a sore throat and were hoarse, they went out in the wilderness and yelled at the top of their voice. This ended up hurting the vocal cords which lowered the pitch of the voice.

*Just an aside, but I think the whole deep-voiced equals masculinity is a Hollywood construct and has nothing to do with the real world, although interestingly in movies the deepest voiced guy is usually the villain.

 

It said it was created in 1933, Dempsey was born in 1895, so he'd be 37 or 38.

 

****ing cool, Mac!!! Cheers!

 

The little guy in the middle is that Joe Jacobs character of "we was robbed" fame. He was the American Manager of Max Schmeling and Tony Galento. He died in 1940 aged 43 years old so he's only 37 here.

 

Schmeling told a story once about the first time he ever sparred Dempsey, he didn't say how old Jack was but only that he hadn't fought in quite a while and his reflexes were shot. Max said he wanted to show the legend what he was made of so he cranked a big hook that caught Dempsey on the elbow, Schmeling said a terrible change came over him, he started snarling and his lips became thin and turned black and he came forward throwing wicked shots and the bell rang. I was thankful I never saw him at his prime

 

Great film.....

 

There is another story I remember from Max's autobiography where Dempsey double crosses Max in a sparring session as a spy for Max Baer. Apparently jack pretended he was going to go light hearted and had asked Max to avoid his "new nose" but Jack deliberately either floored Schmeling or tried to on purpose with a cheap shot so that he could go back to Baer and tell him of a weakness. Max outraged, said he deliberately targeted Jacks nose for the rest of the session. I had hoped this was the session, but there is no evidence of of it even though there is an edit where the camera scans the audience for an unnecessary period. Who knows, it might just be a fib. I might look up that book.