Winner Take All (Warner Bros.) (1932)

oS .* ——_— ia RET pm ema YOUR FIRST ROUND (SMASH TEN DAY ADVANCE PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN) | your L. story James Cagney a Pugilist In “Winner Take All” Just as he sprang upon the world in the most authentic of gangster pictures, “The Public Enemy,” and gave the screen its most realistic auto racing picture, “The Crowd Roars,” so does James Cagney provide the colorful thrills of the prizering in his latest Warner Bros. picture, “Winner Take All,” which comes UNOS OTe Pose aa eet ge Theatre WONG ed. esis ees a ee This virile young personality who has taken a step higher with each succeeding picture, has eclipsed all his former successes in “Winner gkko. SAT With a reputation of punch and power in his pictures, mCagney is happily cast as a two fisted GUY KIBBEE pugilist who Cut No. 7 pulls no punches san AE eh ae in fight or love. The story deals with Jim’s attempt to come back as a winner by going to a desert resort to build himself up. There he meets Peggy Smith with whom he falls in love; so much so, that he breaks into his convalescence period to fight in order to raise money for her. Once back in the ring, he forgets her for a flippant society girl who leads him on merely for the thrill of having a prizefighter in her collection. The complication of affairs arising from this situation makes an intriguing story that allows Cagney every Opportunity to run the full ~ gamut of human emotions. The prizefight scenes are masterpieces of realism. Cagney proves that he can not only act the part of a boxer, but can box with the best of them. Marian Nixon, a new leading lady for James Cagney, makes herself evident in this picture, giving a lovely portrayal of the girl whom Jim really loves. Virginia Bruce acquits herself admirably as_ the society girl. ; The large cast includes Guy Kibbee, Dickie Moore, Clarence Muse, Alan Mowbray, Clarence Wilson, Ralf Harolde, Esther Howard, Allan Lane, John Roche and many others. Wilson Mizner, writer, sportsman, adventurer and one-time manager of prizefighters, adapted the script from the story by Gerald Beaumont. your ye story pllibaitainaniictbintamimie-sicancessindats sia Cagney Yearns For Role Not Calling For Fights Here is a fair warning for you... One of these days you are going to see a different James Cagney flash on the screen, minus strutting swagger and clipped New Yorker speech. If Cagney has his way about it he is going to play a picture in which no fists, guns or grapefruit are in evidence. ‘ This doesn’t mean that we won’t still have the Cagney as we know him now. Rather, we will have a Cagney who can talk Park Avenue as well as “Toid Avenya.” Following the release of his current Warner Bros. picture “Winner Take All,” coming to the ..... .... Theatre NOMS ee ae and in which he plays a hard hitting prizefighter, Cagney intends doing some intensive work in’ diction. The clipped speech you are used to hearing him utter was once part of him. “Tt was al) _ or my first three picture) 1 NS tid. “T could go . “8, Cagney sai 1k to my wife some at night and ta, very-day, off and friends in my ¢ screen intonation. But working in this medium all the time has worked havoe. I sometimes catch myself away from the _ studio using the clipped speech of my roles; and what is worse, when I speak normally I sometimes get the feeling that I am ‘putting it on.’” The truth of the matter is, Cagney has an ace or two up his sleeve in the matter of versatility of future roles, and he is up in arms to keep the Cagney of his former pictures from getting too intimate with the Cagney of his future characterizations. the uncertainties of employment in pictures, get regular jobs as secretaries, waitreses, salesgirls, or return home. For that reason, studios requiring large groups of real beauties, are often unable to get enough — quickly — to satisfy their needs.” When the Cagney company “struck” for lunch, the girls were spied by the rest of the studio, with the result that after lunch, executives, workers and everyone who could find a legitimate excuse for doing so visited the Del Ruth set to look over his prizes. James Cagney follows up his success in “The Crowd Roars” with “Winner Take All,” a Warner Bros. picture directed by Roy Del Ruth. Included in the cast are Guy Kibbee, Marian Nixon, Virginia Bruce and Dickie Moore. Cut No. 5 Cut 30c Mat roc your ae story 150 Hollywood’s Most Gorgeous Beauties Cast In “Winner Take All’ “What’s become of all the beauties in Hollywood?” Rufus LeMaire, head of the easting department for the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, wished to know. He was picking players for “Winner Take All,” the Warner Bros. picture starring James Cagney, which comes COntROS a ee Theatre next eee ee NS They had to be beautiful, they had to be refinedlooking; for they were society girls going to a fashionable night elub. LeMaire consulted Bill Mayberry, assistant casting director and the owner of a photographic mind which carries a picture of every pretty face that has appeared in pictures for ten years. “Bill” said LeMaire, “we’ve got to have a hundred and fifty ‘Knockouts’ — the most luscious beauts in Hollywood, for this night club sequence in the Cagney picture.” “O.K.,” replied Mayberry, and dug into his desk for a memorandum book marked “special.” He devoted the next few hours to calling telephone numbers, each of which terminated in a _ gorgeous beauty. The result of his labors was apparent next day as Roy Del Ruth, Cagney’s director, arranged his bouquet of loveliness at tables in the club set. “Hollywood,” said LeMaire, “has probably attracted more beautiful girls to its gates than any other city in history, but what happens to them is a mystery. Of course, lots of the most beautiful among them marry. and quit the studios; others, due to your A. story (Plant on Sports Page) Tom Jones, Manager Of Champions Used As Extra In “Winner Take AIl’’ Extras, as a rule, are engaged purely for atmosphere purposes by a motion picture studio, but there was one extra in “Winner Take All,” James Cagney’s latest Warner Bros. picture which comes to the ........ ‘Dheatre next. = , upon whose every word of advice, Guy Kibbee acted. Kibbee, in the picture, plays the role of Cagney’s fight manager. The extra, to whom Kibbee turned for advice, was Tom Jones, former manager of fight champions, Jess Willard and Ad Wolgast, and many of the leading fighters of their day such as Packie McFarlane, and Frankie Conlon. Tom Jones has been in the fight game for 36 years. If fight fans look well into the background atmosphere of Cagney’s picture, they might recognize Tom Jones who, besides managing champions, also numbered in his stables such fighters as Billy Papke, Bryan Downey, Abe Attell, Frankie Callahan and Cyclone Tommy Thompson. He talks in a subdued voice of the grand, old days when his boys fought forty rounds and considered it a normally timed bout. But despite what he considers the effete decline of the fight game, he is still at it, with seven promising young fighters in his string. It was no wonder, then, that Guy Kibbee, who plays Cagney’s manager in the picture, hung on every word that Tom Jones uttered. He learned more about his role in five minutes of conversation with Jones than from all the study he had given it before that. your D> th story Neat Job Of Make-Up Made Cagney Typical Pug In “Winner Take AIl’’ There has not been a problem in make-up that has yet stumped a Hollywood make-up artist. Such examples as Loretta Young as a Chinese girl in “The Hatchet Man,” Barbara Stanwyck as an old woman in “So Big,” and numerous others have all been counted in the day’s work of these studio artists. The latest job was to make a prizefighter of James Cagney for sequences in his current Warner Bros. picture, “Winner Take All,” which comes: to the. . 4532 Theatre NOX ac ae . When Director Roy Del Ruth consulted the make-up man on this task, the latter merely answered Del Ruth’s anxiety with a nonchalant nod of the head. “Just let me have Cagney for half an hour and I'll see what I can do,” he said. The cauliflower ear was an easy matter. Cagney’s ear was made into an exact replica with the aid of putty. But the broken, flattened nose was a different matter. Adding putty would only make iv larger; and the idea was to make it smaller and flatter. The solution came through a little device which Cagney was already using. A thin strip of cotton batting placed between his upper lip and his gums gave him an added look of pugnacity and allowed an inflection in his voice which was in keeping with his role. By merely making this wad of cotton large enough, the upper lip was protruded forward, thus giving the appearance of the nose being closer to his face. Added to this flattened $ 4 hs iain ee ce —_appearance, adhesive tape gave— iv thet twisted appearance and the trick was done. your 6. story Critical Movie Audiences Won’t Find Single Flaw in Cagney’s Characterization A motion picture star has to satisfy more than his director that he has enacted his part to perfection with all due realism. There is a watchful audience of millions of people ready to pick a characterization to pieces. Thus, when Richard, Barthelmess played the role of a surgeon, all the doctors in the country who saw the picture were ready at the least misstep to laugh in derision. Barthelmess had to go through some real medical training before he undertook the part. James Cagney understands what the demand for realism means. In his latest Warner Bros. picture, “Winner Take All” which comes to GOS sep tte See Theatre soon, he plays the part of a prizefighter. When the camera caught him in the ring, his body was perfectly developed, without the slightest bit of surplus poundage, and his technique was realistic enough to satisfy the myriad of fight-fans who will see his picture. But it took weeks of preparation under the guiding hand of an experienced trainer—diet, exercise and boxing instruction, before Cagney was letter perfect in his characterization. “IT won’t say that Jimmy Cagney is a born fighter,” Harvey Perry, the trainer said. “It is all a matter of early environment and training. In the district in which Jimmy lived in New York, self-defense meant selfpreservation. He has never had to resort to fighting since boyhood, but his early training will never leave him. Fighting is an instinct, and the real way to its fine points is through early association.” When the picture was over, James Cagney had nothing to do with his new pugilistie ability, but he had the consolation of knowing that, in the future, would-be combatants will think twice about picking a fight with him because, with his fists up, Jimmy now knows all the answers. Page Three