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ANYONE reading anything about Hollywood last spring could hardly have missed the news about the visit Jimmy Cagney was receiving from his brother Bill, the advertising man from New York. It was just too good — and also funny.
Autograph fans traipsing up to Jimmy, requesting his signature — and getting it. Interviewers turned loose on him, and told all they wanted to know — and then some. People talking to him here, there, and everywhere, and writing home to boast about it. When all the time it was brother Bill, spicing his vacation by "playing Jimmy," and being near enough to the real thing to get away with it.
Yes, it was a good joke — good enough so folks here, there, and everywhere began thinking, "Wouldn't they make a grand picture team! Why doesn't some studio hire them?" An idea which, of course, wasn't too wide of being good business not to have occurred to the studios themselves. So now it's happened, though they're not teamed up together. While going through tryouts — and being selected — by one studio, Bill said "Yes" to the contract another studio, RKORadio, thrust before him ; and now Hollywood has two Cagneys, almost alike as two peas, though not, as so many movie-goers had hoped, with the same company.
All of which throws a great, illuminating light on much that has been said, and on some things that haven't been thoroughly turned inside out, about James Cagney, Esquire, in the last few years. About his lack, for instance, of business ability. Point out a neater way to land a brother on the right road to movie fame, and you'll be eligible for fancy fees as a promoter of stars —
If One Cagney's Good, Two Should Be Better!
Director Lowell Sherman stops Jimmy Cagney and his brother Bill in the lobby of the BeverlyWilshire, and has to look carefully to tell them apart. Bill is in the movies, too, now
By Ruth Rankin
Bill, Mrs. James Cagney and Jimmy get a lot of attention when they lunch together at the Brown Derby. According to Jimmy, Bill is an instinctive actor
Hollywood will have plenty of use for your brains. And if Jimmy is a bit of a mark for slick talkers — well, doesn't John D., Sr., give away dimes right and left?
There's the answer to one of the commonest yarns told about Jimmy. One of the less familiar sides to his gingery personality also stands out strong. It's Jimmy's immense loyalty to all whom he likes, or to whom he feels bound — as, of course, he does to any of the brood of five that Pa and Ma Cagney raised on the lower East Side of New York City.
Jimmy and younger brother Bill (there's one between and one older than jimmy, who are both doctors) have been like that always, since they started life in that rough, tough neighborhood. Let's hearken to Jimmy on that:
"When I was nine and he was a little bit of a fellow, I had a street fight with a boy. Bill was an interested audience. Then, when it was all over and I was on my way home, I looked around and there was Bill [please turn to PAGE 100]
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