Winner Take All (Warner Bros.) (1932)

Ee — oe = se YOUR SECOND ROUND (PUNCHY CURRENT PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN) REVIEW Cagney A Knockout In “Winner Take All’ At ee Theatre It is easy to predict a vast addition to the army of James Cagney fans after seeing his latest Warner Bros. picture, “Winner Take All,” which opened yesterday at the .... pee Theatre..: He has climbed steadily in power and _ forceful“ness and now i gives us the this entire 4 career as the shard hitting, # The picture es starts with Jim, JAMES CAGNEY a oe Realth, Cut No.1 striving for a Cut 15¢ Mat 5¢ comeback at a desert sanatorium. He meets a girl, falls in love with her. He breaks his rest — and also his nose and ear — by fighting to raise some money she needs. He leaves her with a promise of reunion and marriage to re-enter his career in New York. Once there he forgets her for a society girl who is interested in him only as an oddity. The crude boxer goes high-hat for the society girl’s sake. He has his broken nose and cauliflower ear fixed by a plastic surgeon and starts getting culture in a big way. His popularity drops off because he turns “nowder puff” boxer in order to save his new nose. This situation provides splendid comedy, drama and human interest. It is only in the middle of the biggest fight of his eareer that the truth dawns on him. What ensues forms one of the most inning clmaxes-that the serScu uas given us. Cagney is as fine and convincing a boxer as he is an actor, which adds much to what we believe is the year’s best comedy. The picture is robust, full of laughs and funny situations, played by an unusual cast. Marian Nixon gives a finely drawn, sympathetic portrayal of the girl Jim loves, and the contrast in the other woman is given by Virginia Bruce, a beautiful newcomer to the screen who acquits herself nobly. Guy Kibbee, Dickie Moore, Clarence Muse, Alan Mowbray, Esther Howard, Clarence Wilson, Ralf Harolde, John Roche and Allan Lane are members of the splendid cast. “Winner Take All” is the _ best Cagney picture to date! Don’t miss it! L.. day of run Cagney Victim Of Old Time Ringster’s Tricks While Making Fight Film The business of delivering haymakers has its own school of humor, as James Cagney found out when he stepped into his prizefighting role in his latest Warner Bros. picture, “Winner Take All,” which is now-playing at the. Theatre. Besides his trainer, Harvey Perry, several well known pugilists were hired for his cast and for their technical, but it helped to keep the gave Cagney may not all have been technical, but it helped to keep the atmosphere from becoming too belligerent. “Keep one glove behind your head,” said Harvey Perry,” so you won’t get hurt when you fall.” “You're doing fine,” said Joe Rivers to Cagney in between rounds. “That palooka couldn’t hit you with a handful of birdshot.” “There’s only one way to become a champ,” chimed in Sailor Billy Vincent. “Just remember four things: hit, duck, block and keep on your feet.” ‘ Cagne~ ‘ed all the little og are pulled on was training Harvey Perry “began, Perry pulled the old one of telling Jimmy his glove was untied. When Jim stopped to look at it, Perry landed one on his chin. Just to get even, while they were rehearsing a fight before several hundred extras, Jim started to pull Perry’s tights down while they were in a clinch. Perry let go in order to pull them up—and Jim let him have it on the chin. It isn’t all fight in the fight game, and there’s a lot of fun in it—but still and all, Cagney says he would rather be an actor. ead day of run Former Champion Acted As Technical Adviser For ‘‘Winner Take All” It takes a lot of combined experience to put over a motion picture effectively. Every person connected with the making of a picture must be well versed in his respective line. Occasionally motion picture studios have to call in experts on various outside matters for technical advice. When this is done you can rest assured the man so selected is at the top of his profession. James Cagney had a trainer to fit him for the prizefighting role he plays in his latest Warner Bros. picture, “Winner Take All,” which is now Playing atthe =.= 7 . Theatre. The trainer was Harvey Perry, a young man in his early thirties who started out as a youngster by representing the United States in the Olympics of 1913, copping the championship in fancy diving. Later, as a prizefighter, he won both the amateur fly-weight and the amateur bantam-weight championships, fighting most of the time as a bantamweight. James Cagney went through the entire preliminary training and dieting that any professional fighter would --have—totitaérgo im order that his appearance and boxing technique may be perfect for the production; but it took a diligent trainer to make a fast hitting pugilist out of a motion picture actor. : “Drd day of run James Cagney Underwent Rigors of a Training Camp For “Winner Take All” A earload of punching bags, boxing gloves, medicine balls and other training equipment were sent down to Palm Springs for Jimmy Cagney, the Warner Bros.-First National torpedo, who was getting ready to play a fight here in “Winner Take All,” which is now playing at the Faas Bee Theatre. Cagney, who is called the most realistic of the younger stars today, went into this role with all the earnestness and energy of a fighter preparing for a real ring battle. He was at the Springs for two weeks, working under the eye of Harvey Perry, former crack boxer and now a professional trainer. . Perry had the actor, who is a fair boxer, on a strict training diet and exercise routine. He had Cagney out early in the morning for a five-mile jog along the desert roads. This was followed by light gymnasium work, boxing, rope-skipping and a session on the rowing machine. Along with the gloves and other implements, went two sparring partners. They boxed with Cagney daily during his four weeks’ stay at the desert resort. Besides Perry, Cagney had _ the assistance of Wilson Mizner and Mark Kelly as advisors on the prize ring technicalities in the making of his picture. Ain day of run Pugs On Set Made Cagney Self-Conscious While At Work in ‘Winner Take All’ _ No audience ever made an actor so self-conscious of criticism as did a group of extras who recently worked with James Cagney in his latest Warner Bros. picture, “Winner Take All,” which is now at the .......... Theatre. Cagney gave vent to a sigh of thanks for the four weeks training and general workout he had taken before entering his role as a prizefighter in this picture. It taught him a lot about the tricks and the CURRENT Virginia Bruce and James Cagney in a scene from Warner Bros.’ “Winner Take All.” Cagney plays the role of a prize fighter with social ambitions. Cut No.6 Cut 30c Mat roc general routine of the pugilistic profession, but he was nevertheless on his toes for fear of making a faux pas in front of the very critical “extras” in his training quarters scenes. You see, they weren’t really extras, but about twenty real prizefighters in the pink of condition —and if you know your pugs, you will know how derisive they can be of a “phoney.” of extras had to be passed up. In order to make the atmosphere of the gymnasium vital in every detail, a group of professional fighters who were training in a Los Angeles gymnasium were rounded up. In the group were Dynamite Jackson, the twenty-one year old negro who was busy getting in shape for a coming bout with Jack Dempsey; Johnny DeCourcy, who had just ~ fought Bert Colima; and Jack Silver, who has a record of having won sixty-three straight bouts by virtue of his left hook alone, and who was once signed to a two-year contract by Benny Leonard to fight for Leonard exclusively. As regards their opinion of Cagney, there was no _ snickering about his playing the part of a prizefighter. To them, he was one of the boys; and the minute Cagney found that out, his ill-ease vanished. When some of the boys offered to put on the gloves with him between scenes for a little workout, that was where he drew the line. He preferre having his battered nose and cav’ dower ear given him by the make-u, man. 3D th day of run “Winner Take All’ Extras Rooted Against Cagney It was during the filming of fight scenes for his pugilistic role in the Warner Bros. picture, “Winner Take All,” which is now at the ......... Theatre, hundreds of extras were used in a reproduction of Madison Square Garden where Cagney was putting on his fights. In order to get the necessary amount of footage, Cagney would fight and the cameras would grind just as long as the fighting actor was able to stand up under it. The midday pause was usually called when Cagney was too tired to go on—and the same went for the end of the day. But Cagney had a lot of stamina and stood up under it all too well, with the result that the extras had two yells which they used at their respective times of the day. One was “Knock Cagney out! We want to eat,” or “Knock Cagney out! . we want to go home!” Virginia Bruce Combines Great Beauty and Talent In ‘Winner Take AI’ There is no such thing in Hollywood as too many blondes. When one studio allowed Virginia Bruce’s option to drop on this account, this fine young actress had no difficulty in ridden industry. The reason is very evident in the manner in which she handles her prominent role in support of James Cagney in the Warner Bros;—___ picture, “Winner Take All,” which istnow playing at: the: 22 26... eae Theatre. Miss Bruce, as a Park Avenue society girl, wields a tremendous influence upon the actions of James Cagney, when he, as a tough pugilist, tries to take up with her crowd. Making Love To a Fighter Not a New Experience For Pretty Marian Nixon Marian Nixon found an echo of her own life in the part she plays as the feminine lead opposite James Cagney in the Warner Bros. picture, “Winner Take All,” which is now playing at the 2...) oi. Theatre. In the picture, she marries Cagney after he tops his career as a champ prizefighter. In real life, she was formerly the wife of Joe Benjamin, whose fame is well known in boxing circles. James Cagney as he appears in the Warner Bros. and Vitaphone picture “Winner Take All.”’ Supporting him are Guy Kibbee, Marian Nixon, Virginia Bruce and Dickey Moore. i Cut No.3 Cut20c Mat sc r ~ SS i sth _———— — ——— a SRE ea Snes : ———————inaking good Im an already blonde——=—snis was one time ~vgular run ee :