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Strawberry Blonde (James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth; TIME, March...
Strawberry Blonde (James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth; TIME, March...
...only leeches. James Cagney in his usual punching self demonstrated that the world is his with two fists and a correspondence course in dentistry. He picked up an alluring nurse--Olivia de Haviland, in a swell park scene, but doesn't like her. Instead the cockney Irishman chases exciting Rita Hayworth, the strawberry blonde, and isn't fast enough to land her. But you knew he would marry Olivia and become a dentist. Black-mailed and jugged by a former friend, Cagney gets his diploma in "solitary," bounces back into life, does some nice revenging and sends the fans home...
...record reveals Cagney as an East Side student dentist with a mooching Irish father (Alan Hale) whose philosophy is: "I was never in the world cut out to be a street cleaner and there's no use reaching for the stars." Cagney loses the neighborhood strawberry blonde (Rita Hay worth) to a chiselling contractor (Jack Carson) and on rebound marries her girl friend (Olivia de Havilland). Later they visit the contractor, grown rich, where they dine under newfangled electric light. "Isn't it dangerous?" asks Olivia. Says Carson: "Not if you pay the bill...
...Hollywood's Brothers Epstein (Julius & Philip) from James Hagan's 1933 Broadway hit One Sunday Afternoon* directed by Raoul Walsh, Strawberry Blonde is a blithe, sentimental, turn-of-the-century buggy ride. Cagney makes the hero a tough but obviously peachy fellow. But the strawberry humdinger, Rita Hayworth, takes the picture away from him, and dark-eyed Olivia de Havilland, with her electric winks, each followed by a galvanizing "Exactly!" takes it away from both of them. The Warners' lot reports that the de Havilland winks shattered Cagney's control a dozen times during production...