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Jack Doyle was a 6ft 5in Irishman with a giant appetite for life.
In 1933 he drew 90,000 to London's White City to see him fight and
was making GBP 600 a week on stage as a singer. He was 19. By the
age of 30 he had earned and squandered a GBP 250,000 fortune (worth
millions today). His motto was, 'A generous man never went to
hell,' and he lived his life like a hellraiser. In his heyday as a
heavyweight boxer, singer and playboy, his celebrity rivalled the
Prince of Wales, and he and his wife - the beautiful Mexican film
star and singer Movita, who later married Marlon Brando - were as
popular in the thirties and forties as Olivier and Leigh or Burton
and Taylor.This remarkable biography rescues a glittering period of
social and boxing history from obscurity and restores Jack and
Movita to their rightful place in the showbiz and sporting
pantheon. Jack's ring presence and personality reached back to the
days of the Regency Buck and his friendships with the Royal Family,
his fist-fight with Clark Gable, his life as a film star and
gigolo, his throwing of a fight by knocking himself out, and his
extraordinary post-war career as an all-in wrestler, are the stuff
of legend confirmed here by seven years' exhaustive research,
during which Taub tracked down and interviewed the leading player's
in Jack's life.The book is being released in autumn 2007 in
conjunction with the screening of the RTE documentary "Jack Doyle:
A Legend Lost", for which Michael Taub acted as consultant and in
which he appears throughout.
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