Thoughts on the film Cinderella man?

I loved the film made by Ron Howard and watched it quite a few times, getting all choked up each time I saw it. However, did a little research into the villified Max Baer to discover that he was not really such a bad guy after all. In fact, he beat Schmilling in 32 at a time when Hitler was promoting the Aerean race theory, courageously wearing a Jewish star in defiance of Hitler even though Baer was not really Jewish. Although James Braddick was a great fighter and seemed like a wonderful family man, I wonder why it was necessary to distort Max Baer's personality so badly as to make him look like a mean spirited psychopath? I still loved the movie anyway. By the way Baer's son who played Jethro in the Beverly Hillbillies felt really bad about how his father was portrayed in the movie.

Good points, I loved this movie too, and I think you said it all...it's really sad, but you know what they say "bad things happen to good people"