Blonde Crazy (Warner Bros.) (1931)

Se ‘FOR TREMENDOUS ACCLAIM: JOAN BLONDELL--A SILHOUETTE (Personality Story about Joan Blondell, featured with James Fie\ Cagney in “Blonde Crazy,” Warner Bros. production now at i Theatre. Use for Sunday Feature In No. 1 Paper) She is comparatively new to the screen, but already wood. stage. for a cradle. JOAN BLONDELL Cut No.1 Cut 15c Mat 5c >? in ‘‘The Greatest Love. stage for all of the twenty odd years of her interesting life, just taking out time for school. Her favorite stage role is Etta in George Kelly’s play, “Maggie the Magnificent.” TANK TOWNS IN CHINA She has played tank towns in China with repertory companies split weeks in Australia, one-night stands in Germany. She has been a cireus hand, a clerk in a New York department store for the shortest period anyone ever held a job—fifteen minutes—and now she is on the road to stardom in the movies. Amazing publicity stories come out of Hollywood about its people, some of them apologetic in their rashness and others just plain brazen. Because of this one hesi tates to present the fact that Joan Blondell is a direct descendant of a merry minstrel dubbed David Blondell who was one of the original troubadors. that. 2 Richard the Lion-, 4 Kk He’s a bell-hop ina Fast hotel and has a key to every room! BLONDE CRAZY with JAMES CAGNEY sensational young star of “Smart Money” and AkeyY, | BLONDELL more vivacious than ever inarole of wit and wisdom NOEL FRANCIS RAY MILLAND PALACE A WARNER BROS. & VITAPHONE HIT Cut No. 15 Cut 20c Mat 5c father carried her on the stage of the Globe Theatre as the daughter of Peggy Astaire Since then she has been on the the is known as the hottest little dynamo in that torrid little town of HollyShe scored as the breezy sister of Dorothy Mackaill in ‘‘Office Wife,’’ then she played comedy roles in other films, fore these were out of the projection room at the Warner Studios, production officials tossed their Joan Blondell known contract for her to sign. She is new to the screen but not to the She was reared in a property trunk Be hats in the air in honor of and trotted out the well At the age of four months her century, Joan Blondell was born in New York City in 1909. She attended the College of Industrial Arts where she was prominent on the swimming team. She wanted to get school all washed up in a hurry and start work, so she threw caution to the winds and shipped to Australia on a eattle boat with a theatrica! troupe. BROADWAY STAGE She played repertory all over the globe, then toured the United States with a repertory company. Then she returned to New York and secured a role in the stage play, “The Trial of Mary Dugan.” After that came “Maggie the Magnificent” and “Penny Areade.” Then came her opportunity for the movies. Her earliest ambition connected with the screen was to play opposite Frank Fay—and that ambition was realized when the picture, “God’s Gift on} Richard Barthelmess and James ney; and of the stage, Helen Hayes and Leslie Howard. Her favorite playwright is George Kelly, and George Gershwin is her favorite composer. She prefers the screen to the stage, declaring, “There is more money in the movies. Not that money is everything—no, indeedy!” In reply to the question, if you left the stage or screen what sort of a position would you seek, she replies, “I’d love to be secretary to Al Capone.” She prefers to live in Hollywood because it is near her work. “Otherwise,’ she says, “I would prefer to live in Hollywood.” She prefers to buy her clothes in New York because she knows “lots of special shops.” She does nothing in particular to keep fit. She likes to take long walks and she enjoys swimming. She likes to watch a good football game. Her favorite diet is skimmed milk and baked pote for three days. Her favorite dish for a gastronomic spree is chop suey. She doesn’t bother much with beauty formulas, but washes her teeth with peroxide and water once a week, and uses the Amos ’n’ Andy brand of toothpaste between times. Her pet economy is to shampoo and dress her hair herself. She finds enjoyment and relaxation in reading good books. Her favorite novel is “I If Were King,” by Justin Huntley McCarthy. She likes the poems of John V. A. Weaver, and the prose of Bernard Shaw and Ernest Hemingway. She dislikes beets, diets, bridge, getting sand in her fingernails, gentlemanly mashers and ritzy people. She is in favor of domesticity and declares it is very nice to go to a “real home” after a day’s work at the studio. She is five feet four inches tall, weighs 115 pounds, has grey eyes and blonde hair. Among her recent pictures are “Other Men’s Women,” “Tllicit,” “My Past,” “Sinners’ Holiday,” ‘Gwod’s Gift to Women,” “The Reckless Hour,” “Night Nurse’ and “Blonde Crazy.” Joan Blondell is co-featured with James Cagney in “Blonde Crazy,” the Warner Bros. production now at Se es PG Theatre. nt pr PYOMUCtLON, | ry , ae e age i As smart as “Smart Money,” and by the same authors. More laughs! | More real thrills! More powerful drama! REXY Jimmy’s here ! He's just a redsae guy to the rest of the town, but a hero to a bevy of blondes. BLONDELL NOEL FRANCIS Guy Kibbee A Warner Bros. & Vitaphone Hit Cut No.7 Cut goc Mat toc CAGNEY COMES INTO HIS OWN another. JAMES CAGNEY Cut No. 20 Cut 15¢ Mat sc BY One WHO KNOWS HIM August At fourtéen — was an “office boy on the New York Sun—then a bundle wrapper at Wanamakers—a custodian in one of the branch libraries of his native New York. graduation from Stuyvesant High School His was followed by his matriculation at Columbia University. THE CAGNEY CIRCUIT Family resources reached rock bottom about this time, and the ambitious youth was forced to leave part time work, art aspirations and the higher education to help feed seven mouths. His soft-shoe dancing, learned for the fun of it, came to the rescue and he got his first theatrical job in the chorus of the musical comedy, “Pitter, Patter.” He was later given a specialty dance, When the show closed he went into vaudeville, doing a Jewish impersonation. For five years he toured the tank towns in what he ealled the “Cagney Circuit.” He was then given the role of a roughneck in Maxwell Anderson’s “Outside Looking In,” which brought him to Broadway. After another fling at vaudeville, Big Time Vaudeville, this time, he appeared with Mary Boland in the successful play, “Women Go On Forever.” The next year he staged the Grand Street Follies, played a prominent part, and remained with the organization for two seasons. HIS BIG BREAK His really big chance came in 1929 when he secured a part in George Kelly’s “Maggie the Magnificent.” He scored in the role as did Joan Blondell, and the two clever youths were signed for the next season in “Penny Arcade.” Warner’ Bros. bought the play, and Cagney and Blondell went to Hollywood. The picture emerged as “Sinners’ Holiday,” and Ma Cagney’s Jimmie was launched on his career as a sereen artist. His fame has steadily increased with “Doorway to Hell,” “Other Men’s Women,” “The Millionaire,” “The Public Enemy,” “Smart Money” and “Blonde Crazy.” He likes both stage and screen. His interests lie not only’in acting but in the kindred arts. He sketches well, and at present is learning to play the piano. He works daily in the gym—plays ball, boxes, punches the bag, swims Kibbee From El Paso Plays Gem Salesman In “Blonde Crazy” (Biography, Aug. 1, 1931) Guy Kibbee, who appears with James Cagney and Joan Blondell in “Blonde Crazy,” the Warner Bros. picture now at the........ Theatre, was born in El Paso, Texas, on March 6, 1886. When sixteen years of age he was property man with a theatrical company. The absence of the juvenile lead at one performance gave him his chance and he went on as an actor in a play called “The Convict’s Daughter.” Since then he has been on the stage, playing in stock and road shows. New York erities rated his performance in “Torch Song” as the finest of the year. He also was a success as “The Old Soak” and appeared in “That’s Gratitude” in Los Angeles. His first pictures were “Man of the World” and “City Streets.” He also did the sereen version of “Torch Song,” then appeared with Winnie Lightner in “Side Show” and now is in “Blonde Crazy.” and plays tennis. He likes sailing a boat better than motoring. James Cagney of Broadway and Hollywood, is not noted for thrift. He has been broke many times, but is never disturbed by it, trusting to the luek and pluck of the Irish. He has red hair and brown eyes and weighs one hundred and fifty-five pounds. He was born in New York City, July 17, 1904. No actor of the day has a more promising future. Cagney has come into his own. James Cagney is now at the...... . Theatre, co-featured with Joan Blondell in Warner Bros. “Blonde Crazy.” |York City on August 30, 1909. Joan Blondell Here In “Blonde Crazy” With Jim Cagney (Biographical Toes. Aug. 1, 1931) Joan Blondell, who is co-featured with James Cagney in “Blonde Crazy,” the Warner Bros. production now at the Theatre, is the favorite daughter of Eddie Blondeli known all over the world as “The Katzenjammer Kid.” Joan’s mother, brother and sister still appear in her father’s vaudeville act. When but a few months old, Joan he act nt ae six years, during wh veloped into a very oie singing and dancing comedienne. After returning to America, she left her family to join a stock eompany in Dallas, Texas, remaining there for several months. She then went to New York to appear in “Tarnish” at the Provincetown Theatre. This was followed by a season in the Follies. She then was seen in “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” “My Girl Friday,” “Maggie the Magnificent,” “Sporting Blood” and “Penny Areade.” While playing in the latter production, she was signed by Warner Bros. to enact the same role in the screen version, which was released as “Sinners’ Holiday.” Following this, she appeared in “Office Wife,” “Other Men’s Women,” “Illicit,” “My Past,” “The Reckless Hour,” “Night Nurse,” “God’s Gift to Women,” “The Public Enemy,” and “Blonde Crazy.” Joan Blondell was born in New She five feet, four inches tall, weighs Sie een pom Re ade In “Blonde Crazy (Biography, Aug. 1, 1931) Noel Francis, who appears. in “Blonde Crazy,” the Warner Bros. picture now at the Theatre was educated in the Dallas schools and the Southern Methodist University. Her desire to be an actress and a singer carried her to New York. She was dancing in a cafe when Florenz Ziegfeld offered her a job in the “Follies.” Her first part was as Katie Bean in the stage production of “Rio Rita.” While on a hunt for sereen talent, Fox signed her up and brought her to Hollywood as a potential singe and dancer for the screen. Just about this tine, singing pictures were ruled out, and Noel held to her contract for almost a year without being assigned anything to do. She finally managed to get out of it and got a part at Universal in “Resurrection.” Then RKO secured her to play with Lowell Sherman in “Bachelor Apartment.” She also appeared in Fox Movietone Talkies for 1930, “Up the “Rough Romance” and River.” ee Her striking blonde beaut tracted the attention of Bros. with the result that given first part opposite E Robinson in “Smart Mone; in “Blonde Crazy.” = Miss Francis is five feet inches tall, weighs one hundr fifteen noundE, has blue ej blonde hair. Miss Francis in Temple, Texas. Joan Goes To Hosp tal Training Not Treatn (Current Reader) — Joan Blondell, co-featx James Cagney in “Blon the Warner Pros. picture Theatre, spe days in a famous Hollywood otel, frequented by movie stars, in order to learn the ins and outs of a linen girl’s work—which is the part she plays in the drama. exciting easy-money Page Ser