Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1933)

Photoplay Magazine for October, 1933 IOI No, it was a case with Jimmy of seeing that while advertising might be good, with the setup they could achieve, movies would be better. So he went to work, along lines that would do credit to the cagiest diplomat of the old school. As he tells it: "Bill was in bad physical condition." (Trust a Cagney, whose fists have been his passport from cradle days, to feel worried about that!) "I persuaded him to come out here, taki a six months' lay-off, and get into shape. And see what would turn up. "He started right out playing handball, wrestling, and boxing. He worked at it. The kid sticks with things. Took off thirty-two pounds — went from 196 to 164 — and now he's in top shape." HTHAT was when, between bouts, Jimmy *■ "showed the young brother the town" and (whisper it!) also showed the town the young brother — with the publicity people fairly eating it up, making Bill famous, and keeping a grand prospective treat before the public. There was one thing he might have had to watch, had Bill been like so many others; but Bill being what he was, Jimmy had no bother. He'll tell you about that, too. "He was out here four months before he even had a date," the elder Cagney will confide. "He's very cagey about it. Figured it was an easy town to go hay-wire in, so he started out very cautiously, and got the habit. He's hard to get, that one." Which, by the way, sounds a good deal like Jimmy himself, the lad who never smokes, unless the script demands it, might take a drink about once in two months, and get the razz from his family when he does, for putting on a "bad man" act. The same Jimmy, who, being asked by a not-over-discerning interviewer, about his love life, snapped, "I'm married!" and shut off that topic for keeps. So now Cagney the Younger has landed for his chance — and the natural question is, what will come of it? Jimmy and Bill both have ideas on that — sound ones. Says Jimmy: "He's better equipped physically than I am. Taller, good carriage, and he has a grand natural assurance that I had to cultivate. He's an instinctive actor. "The kid's a much more agreeable guy than I am. Laughs more easily. He hasn't a nerve in his body. Sits in a chair and relaxes as if he'd been born in it. Me, now, I'm jumpy, poised to spring. "Any business involving speed. and action would be Bill's choice. If it happens to be a Cagney role, and he gives it the works, that's okay with me. But he's fitted for more romantic stuff than I am. Better looking," adds Jimmy, not at all conscious of modesty. THAT'S Jimmy on the subject of which Hollywood has seen so much — family rivalry, most of it unpleasant. But Bill cherishes no ideas of beating brother Jim at his own game. "It would lead to inevitable comparisons — and there's only one Jimmy. I couldn't equal him, and nobody else can. He's the best there is — so why should I try to crash that field?" That's Bill's idea — and that's where matters stand right now, while the situation is being warmed up for the screen introduction of Bill. Meanwhile Bill, with a contract tucked away, has rented a house, and is bringing his mother and sis to live with him. "Sis" is just fourteen, and determined to be a doctor, like two of her four grown-up brothers. And sitting on the side-lines, and knowing what the movies can do, when they take the notion, we'd say it won't be long before, somehow, the two Cagneys are put together. And since Bill, for all that the brothers say about each other, at bottom still is a Cagney, there ought to be plenty of fun for all of us, when that happens. At any event, it looks more like a "natural'' than anything we've noticed in many a moon ! 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