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* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Creator/MichaelConrad, who would later become familiar to TV viewers as Sgt. Esterhaus on ''Series/HillStreetBlues'', plays Rollo.
** Inverted with Al Lewis (Turkey), who's much better known for having played [[Series/TheMunsters Grandpa Munster]] a few years prior.
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** Likely invoked in-universe when Rocky announces that Helen Twelvetrees and Ross Alexander are in the audience. Both were Hollywood actors who also wound up dying by suicide.

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** Likely intentionally invoked in-universe when Rocky announces that Helen Twelvetrees and Ross Alexander are in the audience. Both were Hollywood actors who also wound up dying by suicide.
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** Earlier in the film, Rocky announces that Helen Twelvetrees and Ross Alexander are in the audience. Both were Hollywood actors who also wound up dying by suicide.

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** Earlier in the film, Likely invoked in-universe when Rocky announces that Helen Twelvetrees and Ross Alexander are in the audience. Both were Hollywood actors who also wound up dying by suicide.
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** Earlier in the film, Rocky announces that Helen Twelvetrees and Ross Alexander are in the audience. Both were Hollywood actors who also wound up dying by suicide.
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* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: In-universe. One of the contestants turns out to be an escaped murderer from Illinois who is recognized by a couple of detectives in the audience, arrested, and taken away. Socks the promoter is initially angry at having a criminal mixed up with the marathon, but after a newspaper article draws about the arrest draws in bigger crowds he states that it “was the best break we ever had”.

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* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: In-universe. One of the contestants turns out to be an escaped murderer from Illinois who is recognized by a couple of detectives in the audience, arrested, and taken away. Socks the promoter is initially angry at having a criminal mixed up with the marathon, but after a newspaper article draws about the arrest draws in bigger crowds he states that it “was the best break we ever had”.

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