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.
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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
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