Steve Carell starred alongside Emma Stone in "Battle of the Sexes", which was loosely based on whom?
Battle of the Sexes (film) Battle of the Sexes is a 2017 American biographical sports film, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and written by Simon Beaufoy. The plot is loosely based on the between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. The film stars Emma Stone and Steve Carell as King and Riggs, respectively, with Andrea Riseborough, Elisabeth Shue, Austin Stowell, and Sarah Silverman in supporting roles.
Men Must Fight Men Must Fight is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film starring Diana Wynyard, Lewis Stone and Phillips Holmes. It is based on the 1932 Broadway play of the same name by Reginald Lawrence and S. K. Lauren. When her lover is killed in World War I, a woman raises their son as a pacifist. However, when a second world war looms "between the United States and a country referred to as the Eurasian States in 1940", that belief is put to the test.