Blonde Crazy (Warner Bros.) (1931)

GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDELL! CAGNEY AND HIS BETTER HALF LEAVE HOLLYWOOD FOR LONELY CABIN BUILT HIGH IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS. Brilliant Young Actor, Man Of Many Moods Enthusiams, Does Finest Work “Blonde Crazy,” Redhead And Towhead Play Double-Header Here Cagney Roster Has Actor ’ (Current Reader) Red-headed Jim Cagney and tow. headed Joan Blondell are again toAnd | gether on the screen, being co-feain Warner Bros. tured in “Blonde Crazy,” the WarWhich Comes To Strand ner Bros. production now at the Next Theatre. Both are New both troupers and both wise-cracking 1932 model youngsters. They played together in their last stage performance in “Penny Arcade,” and when it was made into “Sinners’ Holiday,” they were associated in the cast. “Blonde Crazy” is the first picture to team them at the head of a cast. They play the parts of a bellhop and a linen girl, out together on the stillhunt for easy money. It’s a wow. (Advance Reader) with Joan Blondell, in which comes to the tre Yorkers, an advertising manager. James worked his way through Stuyvesant High School in his native New York and to Columbia University. Family financial troubles caused him to get a job, and he secured a job dancing in a musical play. He was goon given a specialty dance. Vaudeville and stage successes followed. He then began the screen career which has given him his wide and enviable reputation. By Carlisle Jones (Human Interest Story—Plant in Sunday Paper) James Cagney, one of the most forceful screen actors day, who will be seen at the etcstre:... = next in ‘‘Blonde Crazy,’’ the Warner Bros. production—when iterviewed, was making feverish preparations for a seven-day vavation between pictures, during which he planned to take his wife and himself to a cabin in the mountains above Los Angeles. “We used to do it in New York,” Jimmie explained. “We had a shack over in Jersey. I built most of it myself. There’s nothing like getting away from all the razzle dazzle—l mean to go to the country some day —not only for a vacation—but for good.” By some odd quirk of Jimmie Cagney’s Trish nature, though born in the midst of the turmoil of New York, he detests the blast of whistles, the honks of autos and all the clamor that arises from what we eall civilization. “I don’t love my home town any the less, because I love the country more,” he says. Cagney is a thoughtful youth. He is not altogether satisfied with the world, his world, or the world in general. of the Lookout! Lookout! LOOK ou] for JIMMY Girls — He's T.N.T. I Is it his witty wit ? His winking way — or his winning smile — that makes women wild The Thinker Maybe it is his everlasting habit of trying to puzzle things out that gives him the lean and hungry look, like Cassius, and creates the impression that he is rather a dangerous in“dividual, which he is not. That red ' noodle of his is seething with ideas » which might not pass as tenets of any ‘of the grand old parties, but “which after all, are not so far from ‘the Golden Rule. — : _His desire for escape from things ag -they> dre—to the world of trees and sky, where one can cogitate on things as they ought to be is the more remarkable, when one considers the fact that the Hollywood home of the likable Cagneys, is a favorite gathering place for congenial, if argumentative souls, who share with the young actor, a dislike for bridge and a liking for good talk. In these friendly, quarrelsome powwows, the sharp staeatto of the voice of the creator of hoodlum roles in “Pyblic Enemy,” “Smart Money,” “Blonde Crazy” and the rest, disappears. He speaks rapidly and with eagerness but so softly that one must be on the alert to catch all he says. The more tense the discussion. the softer his voice is. Wife Watches Cash For reasons of his own he does not drink, nor smoke either, for that matter, except when certain roles in pictures require him to do the latter. At the art of swearing he is a past master—a connoisseur—as adept as Mark Twain himself. J. C. is a man of heights and depths, of lights and shadows, all of which is the prerogative of his nationality. Provident he is not, and never expects to be. He has been dead broke in the old days—one may talk of the old days at twenty-seven—more times than he ean count. The unobtrusive Mrs. James Cagney now comes to the s Family finances are in her He wants his blondes natural — his brunettes bleached — and his redheads burnished! He’s With J OM ES CAGNEY as a bell-hop who knows the | best room numbers! And JOAN BLONDELL with her witty blonde rescue. i bees and therefore, in excellent head full of wise-cracks! Baediion, Noel Francis Co-featured with James Cagney in “Blonde Crazy” is Joan Blondell. Others in the cast are Louis Calhern, Noel Francis, Guy Kibbee, Raymond Milland, Polly Walters, Charles Levinson, William Burress, Peter Erkelenz, Maude Eburne, Walter Percival and Nat Pendleton. Guy Kibbee A WARNER BROS. & VITAPHONE HIT™ Cut No. 11 Cut 60c Mat rsc James Cagney Glorifies The American Bellhop Cheaters Deftly Cheated In Droll “Blonde Crazy” Pretty Polly Adagios To Tune Of Broken Bones (Current Reader) Polly Walters, who plays an important role in the Warner Bros. picture “Blonde Crazy” at the ........ Theatre, was formerly an adagio dancer, and during her dancing career was four times sent to the hospital with broken bones. James Cagney and Joan Blondell are featured in “Blonde Crazy,” a breathless drama of tricking tricksters. nq : ad Hotel Didoes Cut By “Blonde Crazy” Duo oy Shy (Current Reader) “The peacock alley of a big city wa of (Current Reader) The bellhop—or hotel bellhoy—is immortalized by James Cagney in his latest Warner Bros. picture, (Current Reader) “Blonde Crazy” is the title of James Cagney’s first semi-comedy role. The adventures of a bell-boy and a linen girl in cheating cheaters provide the| «Blonde Crazy,” now playing at the story of “Blonde Crazy,” the Warner E ON eee ese | aN Theatre. Cagney plays Bros. picture now playing at the th 1 f ; shina: Isles Se ee Theatre, with James Cagney | °"° TOl@ OF & Wwisecra 8 and Joan Blondell in the featured|of tricksters. William Wellman diroles, rected. hotel, provides the quick-fire action ~ background. for the story of “Blonde Crazy” Warner Bros. picture now playing at the Theatre. The featured roles are played by James Cagney, of “Public Enemy” fame, and Joan Blondell of “Tllicit.” “iliiam Wellman directed. e Eight Ad Man And Two Doctors James Cagney, who is co-featured “Blonde Crazy,” the Warner Bros. production Theanext, has two brothers who are physicians and one who is Cagney Pounds The Ivories As Sideline James Cagney, who will be ae next in “Blonde razy,” the Warner Bros. production in which he is co-featured with Joan Blondell, is one of the most famous of all the “hard” men of the screen. Proof of his ability as an actor lies in the fact that off the screen human being. Boxing has been one of his favorite pastimes until the last few months when he has seriously taken up the study of the piano, meaning to keep on until he can play the fine things in a fine way, so he says. Though Jimmie is noted for the variety and force of his many enthusiasms, he is also famous for not beginning things which he cannot finish. “Blonde Crazy” is his best picture to date. The cast includes Louis Calhern, Noel Francis, Guy Kibbee, Ray Milland, Polly Walters, Charles Levinson, William Burress, Peter Erkelenz, Walter Percival and Nat Pendleton. The story is by Kubec Glasmon and John Bright. Roy Del Ruth di rected. ‘Cagney Thinks Bellhops Are In Need Of Sympathy (Advance Reader) James Cagney, co-featured with Joan Blondell in “Blonde Crazy,” the Warner Bros. production which comes to the Theatre eee he is anything but that type of { “Those lads Ave. aw their feet ten ae hours a day,” he says, “and each one I watched carried at least eight tons of hand luggage and twelve tons of cracked ice and ginger ale!” The sort of bellhop Cagney plays is the wise-cracking, get-rich-quick variety —with not too much emphasis on the Joan Blondell is a linen girl, partners in way the riches is obtained. the same game. Over One Thousand Extras Support In Gay “Blonde Crazy” (Current—Plant 2nd Day) Hollywood’s multitude of extras had a stroke of luck when Warner Brothers called for more than a thousand minor players in “Blonde Crazy” now at the Theatre. Five hundred were used in two sets alone in this whirlwind modern comedy-drama in which James Cagney and Joan Blondell are featured. One of these sets presents a section of Coney Island, in which three hundred extras were used for crowd atmosphere, concession attendants and carousel passengers. On the following day two hundred extra players were called for a lavish hotel setting, presenting the promenade, lobby and dining room of a large metropolitan hotel. An unusual setting provides the background of “Blonde Crazy,” the story of which is laid in the Peacock Alley of a famous gathering place for men and women of the sporting world. The cast of the fast-moving modern comedy-drama includes Louis Calhern, Noel Francis, Guy Kibbee, Raymond Milland, Polly Walters, Charles Levinson, William Burress, Peter Erkelenz, Maude Eburne, Walter Percival and Nat Pendleton. The story is by Kubee Glasmon and John Bright who did “The Public Enemy.” Roy Del Ruth directed. — ———