"I'm the guy who Okays the dames and Kayoes the Palookas!"
Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.
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Ben Lyon
Cooky Bradford
Constance Cummings
Honey Baldwin
Thelma Todd
Kay Mitchell
Tom Dugan
Catfish
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Dan Wilson
Charley Grapewin
Pop Baldwin
Russell Hopton
Sullivan
Jack Miller
Scrappy Martin
Irving Bacon
Slim Dugan (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Fight Spectator (uncredited)
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