Cinderella Man

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Cinderella Man Goofs/Mistakes

Movie Goof (factual errors): Opening scene is set in late November on East Coast, but despite undoubtedly chilly temperatures, characters sit outside on patio at night without coats; trees and grass are still green.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): The credits list Benny Goodman's version of "Don't Be That Way" as the song playing in the club when Jimmy Braddock meets Max Baer. That version of the song was first performed/recorded several years later, in 1938, at Carnegie Hall.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Mae visits Jimmy Braddock in the locker room before the Max Baer fight, his left suspender is in a different position from each angle.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Jimmy Braddock first shows his wife the $175 his manager gave him, in order for him to train and get back in shape, he holds the money between his index finger and his middle finger. In the next shot, he holds it between his thumb and his index finger.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): When Jimmy Braddock receives the $19 in assistance, the teller gives him two 2-dollar bills of a design first used in 1976.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): In the dock yard working scene, a modern-day crane delivers the sacks that Jimmy Braddock loads.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): The family enters the apartment after the electricity has been turned on again. Jimmy Braddock is the only one with snow covering his hat and jacket. The rest of the family has no snow on their outer clothes.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): Jimmy Braddock goes to Central Park in March, 1935 and walks through a Hooverville in search of his friend Mike Wilson. New York's primary Depression Hooverville in 1935 was located on 10th Avenue near the East River (as portrayed in My Man Godfrey). There was a small Hooverville in Central Park located in the drained reservoir, not on the grass as portrayed in the film. When adequate fill could be found for it, the homeless were evicted, and the area was transformed into the park's Great Lawn. Landscaping work was completed by April, 1933, so Central Park's Hooverville had been gone a full two years when Braddock visits it in Cinderella Man.
Movie Goof (factual errors): Max Baer is shown wearing a robe with his name on the back. In reality, the robe that Baer wore to both of his title fits was a prop from the movie The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933). Baer played a character named "Steve Morgan", and that was the name on the back of the robe.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): At one point - given as 1933 - Jimmy Braddock reports a dream of dining at the Ritz with Mickey Rooney. Then only 13, Mickey Rooney was in the film business but not a name to recognize in Braddock's slum. He starred in a series of comedy shorts at the time, but going by the name of Mickey McGuire. Only from the late 1930s through the 1940s would Mickey Rooney become a top star and household name.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the press conference before the Max Baer fight, one reporter identifies himself as being from the New York Herald. In fact, the paper had been known as the Herald Tribune since 1924, when the Herald and the Tribune merged.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The receipt that Jimmy Braddock gives at the welfare office is about $50 off from the actual amount that Braddock had borrowed. Russell Crowe pointed this out to the director who decided to 'leave it in to prove that it's just a movie'.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Jimmy Braddock passes a movie poster for the film S.O.S. Iceberg (1933), misspelled "Iceburg."
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Jimmy Braddock wins his first comeback fight, two scenes are in the wrong order. Braddock turns and looks at Gould before Gould calls out his name as he is climbing into the ring.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): At the end of the final fight scene, when Jimmy Braddock is celebrating with his corner, one of his trainers, the man who Braddock kisses on top of his head, is wearing modern spectacles.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Braddock is viewing the footage of Max Baer killing Frankie Campell in the ring, at the end two people start to pick up Frankie's body. His left arm starts to slide off his body until he raises it slightly for a moment.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): Madison Square Garden's marquee overhanging Eighth Avenue is noticeably smaller and not as wide as the real one was. Also, the traffic is shown passing it from right to left, south and downtown. Traffic on Eighth Avenue goes in the opposite direction, from left to right, north and uptown.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): While the Braddocks were entering the fancy restaurant, the band was playing an ebullient version of Opus One. Opus One wasn't out until 1944.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): In a shot of Joe Gould sitting in his car, you can clearly see the leaves of a palm tree reflected in the automobile's window. This scene takes place in the New York/New Jersey area, where there are no palm trees.