Winner Take All (Warner Bros.) (1932)

your bo story Actor-Fighter Better Than a Professional Pug In Movie Fight Scenes The manly art of boxing, as conducted for such a picture as Warner Bros. “Winner Take All,” which comes NO2GNe Soe oe Theatre next Sates ep ee , with James Cagney as the star, has its fine points, some of which are unknown to the professional stars of the ring. Marian Nixon, popular player who supports James Cagney in “Winner Take All,” a Warner Bros. victure directed by Roy Del Ruth. Cut No. 4 Cut 20c Mat 5c It may seem a far-fetched statement to make to state that for his role of a°two-fisted, game, hard _ hitting pugilist, James) Cagney was better fitted for the scenes showing him in action in the ring, than any professional fight champion. This statement requires an explanation and in order to do so, the readers will have to be let in on a studio secret. For one thing, the kind of blows delivered have an important bearing on the way the fighting scenes will look on the sereen. Short, quick jabs are very effective in a real match; Jack Britton, to name only one example, rose to pugilistie renown and the welterweight championship by virtue of that technique almost exclusively. But jabs are delivered so quickly that the camera is apt to miss them. Round-arm blows are much more effective photographically; and therefore in staging a fight for the “movies, hooks and swings are emphat ically favored by directors and camera men. In some of the most famous battles of the prize ring the knockout blow was invisible in the motion pictures because of the speed with which it was sent over. This, of course, is a calamity that must be guarded against in “shooting” a fight, however realistic, that brings a movie story to its climax. In “Winner Take All” one may be sure that the knockout punch will be clearly visible to every spectator. Cagney refused to have a “double” appear for him in any of the scenes. Before going on the stage he was interested in amateur boxing in the Yorkville section of New York. He has always been a follower of the squared circle and the rise and fall of champions. “Winner Take All” offers “the real stuff” in atmosphere and detail. The picture was directed by Roy Del. Ruth. In the supporting cast are Marian Nixon, Dickie Moore, Guy Kibbee, Virginia Bruce, Clarence Muse and other players, including a number of square-jawed gentlemen ‘with cauliflower ears. It has come to our attention that many exhibitors throughout the country have been sending the merchandising plan to newspapers expecting the dramatic editor to go through the entire publicity section and pick the stories most adaptable to. his needs, edit them and type them over. We suggest that YOU pick the stories, edit them and type them before submitting them in order to get yourself more publicity. Page Four your ab. story Cagney Almost Starved For Sake Of Realism In “Winner Take All’ Not until he was assigned the star role in “Winner Take All” had James Cagney realized what it was to crave food, and be forced to do without it, although able to buy it. Prior to Cagney’s entry into his latest Warner Bros. picture “Winner Take All,” which is coming to the aa i Phoatre “Mextecis oe and in which he plays a_ prize fighter, his manager and a trainer, assigned to him by the studio, whisked him off to Palm Springs where he went through four weeks of rigorous dieting and training, which in no whit differed from that which a professional pugilist has to _ go through before a fight. During the length of time he has been in motion pictures, the staid, inactive form of life he led as compared to his former life of trouping as a hoofer, added some flabbiness to his body. As soon as the prizefighter role for his picture was selected, it was decided that Cagney’s body would have to be conditioned. Hence the trainer and the diet. And here is a typical menu in the training life of James Cagney. BREAKFAST—1 small glass tomato juice, 1 soft boiled egg, 1 thin slice dry toast, 3 apples. LUNCH—Small salad of raw cabbage and head lettuce, fruit salad, 2 oranges, 3 apples. DINNER — Salad (fruit or vegetable), 3 thin slices dry toast, medium rare steak, side dish of spinach or broccoli, 1 small cup of tea. As far as drinks with his meals were concerned, he was allowed nothing but water except for one small cup of tea with his dinner. As a result, Cagney was always hungry. When “Winner Take All” was finished, Jimmy had his first real meal in two months. And how he enjoyed it! your >. story Cagney’s Cauliflower Ear — Knocked Off Repeatedly While Making Fight Film Knocking the ears off a person is not just a figure of speech used by prizefighters. It actually happened to James Cagney — and more than once — during the filming of his latest Warner Bros. picture, “Winner Take Aa eoniing 16 the. ace EN OBETO. Se ee eS ‘ As a much battered prizefighter, the makeup artist provided him with a cauliflower ear moulded with putty. In the many fight scenes in the picture, Cagney took some harsh blows on this organ of hearing with the result that the end of the bouts found him minus his cauliflower ear. As a general rule, it was always found in his opponent’s hair where it would land during a clinch. Besides the regulation two seconds, Cagney had to have the make-up man in his corner and his opponent had to have a hairdresser with a very fine comb. In “Winner Take All,” Cagney is supported by a large cast of prominent players, including Marian Nixon, Virginia Bruce, Guy Kibbee, Dickie Moore, Allan Lane, a your 10 th story Guy Kibbee Couldn’t Fake Punch So Cagney Had To Take Real Sock On Chin For the second time in his flourishing career, the bold, bad boy of the movies gets a taste of his own medicine — and Guy Kibbee is dusting off a place for himself in the Hall of Fame alongside of Donald Cook. James Cagney had been slugging and riding rough-shod over men, women and children with impunity. The only cinematic record of his taking it on the chin was when Donald Cook delivered it in “The Public Enemy.” At that time, Director William Wellman, after rehearsing a fake blow for half an hour, whispered to Cook to let Jimmy have the real thing accidentally. Now, in the filming of his current picture, “Winner Take All,” which comes=to:. the = Theatre Next a , Guy Kibbee comes in for a slice of this glory and delivers the first knockout since Cook made history. Just as in the former case, Guy Kibbee practiced a fake blow for his role as Cagney’s fight manager in his present opus. But Kibbee, not being used to such things, couldn’t put enough realism in the synthetic punch, and so when the shot was taken, Cagney had to resign himself to taking the real thing for the sake of the picture. Short Jabs “Winner Take AIl’’ Story Adapted by Wilson Mizner Wilson Mizner, writer, sportsman and adventurer, adapted “Winner Take All,” James Cagney’s latest starring picture for Warner Bros. which comes to the ............... Thesite J0st ss as and which is based on a story by Gerald “Reema called “Qne-Thirty-Three at Three.” he story deals with the prize ring, and Mizner’s selection to write the screen version is significant in view of the fact that at one time he was cloesly connected with the ring as a promoter and manager of boxers. Cagney Changed Jeers Of Extras To Cheers When He Showed He Could Box Jimmy Cagney, playing a boxer in “Winner Take All,” coming to the Sie eee Theatre next... 320.3, stepped into the ring at the studio and was promptly razzed by seven hundred extras playing in the picture, who thought it was just another actor trying to be an athlete. After the first round of a scheduled ten-round bout, they were not razzing, but cheering. Tommy Richards, former Pacific Coast lightweight champion, now a film editor at Warner Bros.-First National Studios, watched Cagney through half the round and then gave the verdict: “He can box with any of ’em. He's the best actor-boxer I have seen in ten years.” Dickie Moore, James Cagney and Marian Nixon, as they appear in Warner Bros.’ “Winner Take All,” a romance of socks and blondes. Cut No.2 Cut 30c Mat 10¢ Cagney’s Measurements In “Winner Take All’ Following are the ringside figures on James Cagney, star of the Warner Bros. picture, “Winner Take All,” which ‘comes to: the == <3 3 ‘Theatre: nNext= 7.3. sae Weicht--03. oe ee 148 Pounds Height: 25. 22323 ....0.74%4 Inches Resch GAs Ae: 6628 Waist se ee v2 fee eS Chest: 3.65 ot ae ee 40. « rp Se ae ee 44 « Neti 23 Se ee 154% *& BaOON oe ee 184, Wists ee 64% OC MOTeAIN 4 oS ae ee a fa be Agee hip hike eet, ee ee Dae Cali a ee 144%, «& AV Osos Si eee Gets Cagney’s Earnestness In “Winner Take All” Scenes Tough On Sparring Mate So much spirit and energy was put by James Cagney into his role in “Winner Take All,” the Warner Bros. prizefight epic coming to the See or yee Theatre next | 65 that Billy DeGroot, one of his sparring partners in the film, had to go to the studio hospital to have a very sore jaw treated after a vigorous round with Cagney under the watchful eyes of the camera. A wicked hook was responsible for this hospital visit by DeGroot, who was formerly well known on the Coast as a professional lightweight boxer. Cagney apologized profusely, and says he hopes and believes that DeGroot has forgiven him. Marian Nixon plays the leading feminine role in “Winner Take All.” Opening Day Story Cagney As Pug With Park Avenue Ambitions At __ . In “Winner Take All’ Adding another characterization to the variety he has already brought to the screen, James Cagney comes Gash e ee Se ee Theatre today in the role of a pugilist with Park Avenue aspirations in his latest Warner Bros. .picture, “Winner Take All.” Cagney is seen as an up and coming prize fighter whose health suffers as the result of dissipation. Going to a rest home in New Mexico to recuperate he meets a former night club entertainer with whom he falls in love. Returning to New York to make his come-back attempt, he meets a society girl who regards him as a new form of entertainment. Jim, however, takes her seriously and decides to become her equal, going in for a re-made nose and ear, an etiquette teacher and Fifth Avenue tailors. He is brought to realize his mistake in one of the fastest comedy climaxes ever screened. “Winner Take All” moves at the speed of a championship bout from opening scene to finale. Cagney gives what metropolitan critics call the best performance of his career. He enacts to perfection the part of a socially ambitious prizefighter. The picture provides one laugh after the other, the majority of which are delivered by Cagney. The supporting cast ineludes Marian Nixon as the first love of the pug who later becomes infatuated with the society girl, portrayed by Virginia Bruce, beautiful former Follies girl. Others are Guy Kibbee, Dickie Moore, Clarence Muse, Allan Lane, John Roche, Alan Mowbray, Clarence Wilson and Esther Howard, as well as num?2rous professional prizefighters. Roy Del Ruth, who directed Cagney’s past successes, “Blonde Crazy” and “Taxi” directed “Winner Take Al »