The Rocky Marciano Interviews - Part Three (16mm Transfer) Nat King Cole, Jimmy Durante, George Raft
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2024
- The Marciano Interviews - Part Three
Main Event TV Series 1961
Guests: Nat King Cole, Jimmy Durante, George Raft
16mm Sound Transfer, 15 Minutes
This is the third installment of interviews that Rocky Marciano conducted among the 30 episodes of his 1961 television program, Main Event. Each program would include a brief interview with Marciano and his guest, either an artist, entertainer, sports figure or a celebrity. The program would also feature a period or classic fight, which Rocky would narrate, and then discuss with his guest. In retrospect, the interviews themselves have become classics, which is why I wanted to show them. This footage comes from my collection of 16mm prints.
Two Singers and a Gangster
Of the three guests seen here, only Nat King Cole may be familiar to younger viewers, and mostly due to Cole’s daughter, Natalie. In the early 1990s she showcased old TV footage of her father for a series of famous “duet” music videos where the producers created the illusion of Natalie singing with her father. Nat Cole, a brilliant pianist and singer who crossed between pop and jazz, was still a very popular figure in 1961, charting hits until his death of lung cancer just four years after this program was filmed. I like that all three of the guests here were not only genuine boxing fans, but each had boxed at some point when they were growing up as well. When Nate mentions “signing up” a fighter, it sounds archaic - as if he just bought himself a race horse. It goes to show how popular boxing still was at the time and how fighters were regarded as “investments”. Jimmy Durante was one of the most iconic entertainers of the 20th century. A singer, actor and pianist, his gravelly voice, giant Schnozzola, and trademark vaudeville comic style was uniquely American, and made him instantly recognizable everywhere he performed. George Raft the actor, like Durante, is likely familiar to modern audiences through someone’s impression of him, rather than of the man himself. Raft’s successful work was portraying gangsters in movies during the 1930s and 40s. His associations with real life mob figures however, and the fellow actors whom he influenced, have been his legacy. At the time of his appearance on Rocky’s program, Raft’s career was a decade past its peak, which he alludes to, and his remaining movies were mostly as guest roles.
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Amazing. Rocky transitioned from boxing to TV, hosting a live show and did a great job. Truly a champion in every way.
You can tell Rocky had a very good old fashioned up bringing ,hes always so respectful with his guests and always his opponents in the ring a real classy guy.R.I.P. CHAMP.49-0
Chevy Lover Yes he did....and his mother my grandmother continued with all of the grandchildren...
@@louisj.marciano2562 Rocky was the greatest ever.
Rocky Marciano was a champion in and out the ring.....a really tough great unbeaten champ in the ring.....but a softly spoken , humble, respectful gentleman out of it....class guy
Rocky was a credit to boxing,in & out of the ring.For someone that came from Massachusetts & didn’t have a prejudiced bone in his body,too bad more people from his are weren’t more like him.I can see why he was so beloved
Favourite old school fighter and favourite old school singer! This is pure gold!
Shame more of today's fighters aren't like these gentlemen.
AND entertainers like Nat!
Nat king cole, a great great singer,
And a very unique talent! And
Rocky the greatest heavyweight
Champion. Jimy durante, a great
And total talent. George raft, a
Great great actor, of the Golden
Age of Hollywood.
Two Legends, may they both Rest in Peace
So very articulate given the type of boxing he undertook. Very kind and respectful man. One of the all time greats.
The real ROCKY ... hes so alive here ... wish I knew him, great guy!
Everytime I see Rocky in an interview he comes across as the nicest guy I’ve ever seen and that was not an act.
George Raft a wonderful actor and human being ❤
Those are all great people in there own particular field and i like them all thank you
CLASS! Both of them.
I remember watching this show as a child. My mother and stepfather woke me up and took me into the livingroom. On television was the irrepressible Nat "King" Cole, on a boxing show hosted by the late Rocky Marciano. I didn't know anything about the Brockton Blockbuster at the time. However, I did know a lot about Nat "King" Cole. I was eight years old, and also in the the third grade at the time. It's great to see this program on youtube. I'm one of Nat's biggest fans, even then.
Nat and Stubby Kaye in Cat Ballou...part of my childhood.
Wow! Old-Timers, great! Not a boxing fan really, but I sure knew Rocky M's name, and fame. Nat King Cole was so, so classy and what a musician! Then Last but NOT least, George Raft, what a treat. From boxing to baseball to dancing to acting
- he was so versatile. And another old-fashioned, true "gentleman." Thanks,
This was a wonderful video!
Wow! Great men
Two legends in their own right.
Rocky and the King.
Just found these videos...characters from my childhood...I'll be back!
If you haven't heard Nat sing - and play the piano - you haven't lived. He had a superb set of pipes, and if you can believe those who understand such things, he was a better piano player than he was a singer!h He died far too young at 45. Damned cigarettes!
Thanks so much for this rarity, FightFilmsGuy. My favorite boxer and favorite actor (George Raft).
I love the King interview, classy guy
Love this...love Nat King Cole....
Luv the way rocky speaks. Seems like the nicest guy. How could he of been such a tiger in the ring.
Class class class
Magnificent human being
ROCKY MARCIANO ITALY, WAS THE BEST, CIAO FA FRED ITALY, MILANO, BYE.
Happy Jimmy Durante’s Birthday! 🎉
2 gentlemen wow r.i.p.
Marciano was the best of the best to step in the ring in my humble opinion., and furthermore was a humble sweet hearted man and not a Boaster Bragger. That is a quality that has eluded the current status quo unfortunately.
The namesake of Rocky
Do you all remember who wrote the book "How To Keep Afloat"......George Raft..lol
Reminds me of Fredrick Flintstone talking to Mr Barney Rubble.Yab Adab Adoo.?
Never, do I hear about any tribute, or praise, for the only UNDEFEATED heavy weight boxing champion in history, evidently he's the wrong ethnicity to be acknowledged by today's society.
STRINGS UP'58 I get your point however they did honor him with I believe the larger statue for an athlete in North America...
You hit the nail on the head.
This generation , they have no idea how great the old time fighters were, Rocco the ultimate warrior, would,ve pounded the shit out of Liston, and I herd the great Harry greb middleweight and only one to beat the great gene Tunney sparred with the great Dempsey and was jacking him up, both of them out weighed greb by 30 + pounds, I herd he also sparred jack Johnson and he was just to tough and fast for them, but I can guarantee he would,not beat rocco
I mean greb was to fast for all three of them, but no way could he do that to rocco
Can somebody link the song Jimmy's playing? I can't find it.
A bygone era that was perhaps the apex of the USA.
Nice
anyone know the song that was played on the Piano by Jimmy durante? would love a listen, Love to you all and My blessings to MR. Marciano and the Marciano familia
I challenge anyone to show a video of Rocky speaking about Sonny Liston.
Or Dempsey. They seemed not to have anything to say...
Marciano reminds me of Fred Flintstone
I wonder if these medals still exist today and how much would they be worth?
Nat King Cole would have made a good entertaining company with Muhammed Ali.
These guys should be influencers not some privileged posh talentless nobody who has 1mill followers on Twitter because his parents were rich 🥊🥊
Totally agree.
They were real men
Why did you have to cut it? I wanted to see the fights too that they comment on...
Because.
That's why.
Great fighter, he'd of killed Ali, and Ali knew it, I just wish Paterson and Liston were highly ranked before rocky retired, because if he fought them everyone would have to agree, no HW beats him to strong to tuff and to conditioned, he couldn't box but that's what made him so hard beat
Rocky couldn't box?
is he calling him Nate? instead of Nat?
Do you have the episode with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ?
Nat : "How quiet the audience is at the particular time they are performing it is a great tribute to an artist".......wait a couple years Nat.....all that will change!
Neither of them survived the decade.
🙂
what a cruel destiny of ROCKY ...undefeated in boxing career and dies tragically in plane crash:(
Rocky was a Boxer/Fighter in a decade where Fitness was no where near what it became after Cassius Clay , Clay was superior too all of the big names , Rocky was the great White Hope, of that time a lovely guy but limited in ring speed and the fine arts of the sport, Shame he died in a plane accident , a decent human being Nat King Cole my favorite singer of all time
Watch some video analysis of Rocky's fights. His defense was actually quite refined and effective, just not dramatic, never moving 2 inches when 1 would do. Compare his jumping in with a right lead to Joe Frazier's offense, Rocky is much more effective, in spite of his short arms. Fitness? No one has ever been more fit, or pound for pound strong. No, he couldn't catch Ali, but he could slip & block all of Ali's punches. What would happen? Quite possibly, after going all 15, Rocky"d get a UD for being the aggressor throughout. Dancing away doesn't win fights, unless you also made good contact.
Peter Wood-Jenkins That couldn’t be more inaccurate...... to say ROCKY MARCIANO wasn’t a well trained Boxer is the equivalent to saying that because Micheal Jordan was a poor junker he played below then rim..... it’s an utterly unsure inaccurate comment.
Stout Krout - Thank You
Rocky was the most fanatically trained, well-conditioned fighter of all time. His endurance and power in the LATE rounds speaks to that.
Your wrong, what do you mean white hope, undefeated against black fighters too, do you know who named float like a butterfly, sting like a butterfly ali the greatest ali named himself the greatest, ali couldn't punch hard enough to beat Rocco also, Rocco would catch up to ali and destroy him, he never stopped punching for 15 rounds, no other heavyweight could keep up with his pace, ali was lazy
CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS HE WAS BURIES.... AND ON THE THIRD DAY HE WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD IN THE FLESH AND SEEN OF OVER 500 EYEWITNESSES AT ONCE.......THIS SAME RISEN SAVIOUR COMMANDS EVERYONE EVERY WHERE TO REPENT AND BE BORN AGAIN TO ESCAPE HELL FIRES...MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND YOUR LOVED ONES FOREVER IN CHRIST JESUS
The land of the sea . . . Ali would have had a field day with that
The master is not happy aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Roky is a grislyyyyy aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Roky boy a boy aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa