Boy Meets Girl (Warner Bros.) (1938)

Cagney Has Yacht, Farm, And Dozens S Bow Ties Jimmy Cagney calls his wife “Bill.” In many respects she is a remarkable young woman. For one thing she allows her husband to wear bow ties. No one knows whether she likes them or not, but few woman do. Anyway, Jimmy keeps on wearing them year after year, and he wears such a tie in “Boy Meets Girl,’ the Warner Bros. comedy co-starring him and Pat O’Brien which comes to the Strand Theatre next Friday. Two or three times a year, Cagney likes to wear tails. His first such appearance this year was. at the Academy banquet. His collar was so high Pat O’Brien thought Jimmy ought to get an award. His yacht is named “Martha’”’ but he never had a girl named Martha. That was what it was called when he bought it. Week ends, when in Hollywood, he goes harbor yachting —keeps the boat anchored in the middle of the bay and just sits on the deck. Sometimes he gets in the dinghy and sails around for an hour, but most of the time he justs sits. Cagney’s prize possession is his 100 acre farm on Martha’s Vineyard. There is an old sevenroom house on it built by the man who designed the frigate Constitution. He is gradually restoring it to its original condition. In the attic there is a lot of old furniture and he spends his time restoring the chairs, tables, spinning wheels and dressers. n “Boy Meets Girl’ Jimmy Acer briefly in one comedy scene. That’s nothing new in his life. Years ago he was a chorus boy, and after that a vaudeville and musical show hoofer. He keeps up his dancing for exercise and every now and then takes ballet lessons from Theodore Kosloff. Almost any night, when Cagney is in Hollywood, you can find him at Dave Chasen’s. That is a favorite hangout for actors who like to discuss serious matters, and eat spareribs. He doesn’t like horse racing or roulette. For that matter, he doesn’t like to gamble. He doesn’t play bridge and doesn’t smoke. He stands still to look at sunsets and would like to play the part of George in “Of Mice and Men.” He doesn’t like unpeeled apples and never carries an um brella. He is a fine roller skater, can stand on his hands, doesn’t get sad when he hears organ music and likes fish. He likes small houses and is building a new one in Coldwater Canyon. It has seven rooms and a big yard. His brother Bill is his business manager and, though heavier, is a dead ringer for the star. Jimmy has a water softener in his Beverly Hills house which goes on and off automatically. Sometimes, when it is off, he forgets to turn off the taps and the house gets flooded. @ Motion Pictures Are Your Best Entertainment @ Jan Holm Makes Debut Jan Holm, who was discovered in a Ivopuna Beach, Calif. little theatre by a p> Bros. talent scout, made her film debut as a nurse in the hospital sequence of “Boy Meets Girl,” the Warner Bros. comedy starring James Cagney and Pat O’Brien, at the Strand Theatre. Miss Holm, who is 18, was born in Chicago but educated in Laguna Beach. Last spring she was given a part in a little theatre production of “The Shining Hour’ in the beach city and was spotted by the talent scout. A test won her a long term contract. Shortage of Midgets There was a scene in the script of the Warner Bros. comedy, “Boy Meets Girl,’ coming to the Strand Theatre next Friday, which called for midgets. Because of a shortage in Hollywood of midgets, Director Lloyd Bacon substituted Indians. He didn’t change the scene or the dialogue :— just the people in it. McHugh’s “Panning”’ Frank McHugh, whose latest Warner Bros. picture, “Boy Meets Girl,” comes to the Strand Theatre next Friday, has a framed enlargement of a pointed quotation from a review criticising his acting early in his stage career hanging in his bedroom, where he can see it the first thing in the morning. That’s just to take him down in case he ever begins to think he’s “good,” he says. “BOY MEETS GIRL,” smash Warner Bros. comedy, played in 235 cities on the road on the stage. James Cagney and Pat O’Brien star in the film. DICK FORAN, featured in Warner Bros.’ “Boy Meets Girl,” is a Princeton graduate, and a native of Flemington, New Jersey. MARIE WILSON, whose fan mail is the third largest on the Warner Bros. lot, estimates she buys over $25.00 worth of postage stamps each week. Her fans buy 3,000 stamps a month. Mat 211—30ce STEPPING RIGHT into the picture from left to right, this trio of fightin’ Irishmen includes Pat O'Brien, James Cagney, and Frank McHugh. All three appear in Warner Bros.’ "Boy Meets Girl,” coming Friday to the Strand Theatre. @ Motion Pictures Are Your Best Entertainment @ MOVIES REVEALED IN “BOY MEETS GIRL” Your average film fan has a pretty vague idea of what the inside of a studio looks like. And what he does know about those magic cities surrounded by impregnable walls is usually wrong. Not one person in a thousand in these United States has been inside a studio. Unless you work for a newspaper, or know a star or director, or own a string of theatres, you can’t get on a sound stage. That’s all going to be changed, according to reports emanating from the Warner Bros. Studio. Hollywood comedy starring James Cagney and Pat O’Brien, which opens Friday at the Strand Theatre, is viewed by audiences, they will all see just what the Warner lot looks like. For the picture was filmed, for the most part, in the various studio departments. If all films were like “Boy Meets Girl,” according to Esdras Hartley, art director on the picture, set builders would starve to death. He says the set cost on “Boy Meets Girl” set a record as the lowest for an important picture in Warner history. There's one elaborate set—the producer’s ofice—and one or two small ones. The rest of the locales are the regular studio buildings. “We used the wardrobe department,” he said, “the makeup department, the commissary, cutting rooms, projection rooms, and executive offices. Starts Film Career At Seven Months Mat 110—15e Paul Clark and Marie Wilson After weeks of search, during which time scores of babies were tested, seven-months-old Paul Clark, son of a Burbank, Calif., high school teacher, won the part of “Happy,” the baby in the Warner Bros. comedy, “Boy Meets Girl,” coming soon to the Strand Theatre. Paul’s sister, now two years of age, was once a screen actress. Last year she worked with Jane Withers in ‘Pepper,’ but she literally outgrew her usefulness. Advance PUBLICITY RALPH BELLAMY NEW COMEDIAN It took Ralph Bellamy seven years and fifty pictures to convince the motion picture makers that he could play comedy. Now Bellamy is wondering if it was a mistake. He is afraid he’s doomed to be a comedian for the rest of his screen life, and that isn’t what he wants. His ambition is to be a character man. Bellamy is a comedian in the Warner Bros. satire, “Boy Meets Girl,” which opens Friday at the Strand Theatre. He was a comedian in “Fools for Scandal.” And he got both those jobs on the strength of his performance in “The Awful Truth.” Before “The Awful Truth,” no one in Hollywood would give Bellamy a comedy job. He was a leading man—that was all there was to it. “T got plenty of work—such as it was,” Bellamy says. ‘Most of the pictures were bad and the parts were worse. I seemed to be doomed to a life of placid mediocrity. Then Columbia offered me a part in “Che Awful Truth’.” Bellamy says he didn’t want the part. He read the script and tried to back out. He begged the director to write his part out of the picture, with no success. “Which proves,” Bellamy says, “that actors seldom know what’s good for them. That was my first real motion picture break, and I tried to throw it away.” Bellamy likes to play comedy. He likes character work better— roles an actor can sink his teeth into. But he has no hopes of getting character parts for a while. “Now I’m a comedian to the producers,’ he says. “And all the parts they offer me are comedy parts.” Real Thing Too Plain They filmed a motion picture scene in a producer’s office at Warner Bros. for the comedy, “Boy Meets Girl,” which opens Friday at the Strand Theatre, but they had to build a set to do It. The script of “Boy Meets Girl” called for an elaborate producer’s office. A trip through Warner Bros.’ producers’ offices including J. L. Warner’s by Director Lloyd Ba con revealed that none were elab “orate enough to coincide with the popular conception of a Holly ~ wood producer’s office. Wherever Was 5 Spat $ Wht Mat Boy? Coney Island? No, that was...” MARIE WILSON, who plays the dumb waitress, Susie, in the screen version of "Boy Meets Girl," picture, which comes Friday to the Strand. “The rink? No, it couldn’ta been...” “Was it last summer in camp? ... ” “It’s right on the tip of my tongue!” Order “Boy Meets Girl Mat 501-B”—75e from Campaign Plan Editor, 321 West 44th Street, N. Y. C. OTS RN Va ES es ates | FESR ae and who may remember who the boy was and where it was she met him by the time you see the It may have been either Jimmy Cagney or Pat O' Brien, who co-star in "Boy Meets Girl."