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Download or read book W.C. Fields written by James Curtis and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2003 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a revealing glimpse of the man and artist behind the image of the gin-guzzling misanthrope, discussing Fields' Philadelphia childhood, his career in vaudeville, his turbulent personal life, and his seminal film work.
Book Synopsis The W.C. Fields Films by : James L. Neibaur
Download or read book The W.C. Fields Films written by James L. Neibaur and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W.C. Fields was at the top among comedians during Hollywood's Golden Era of the 1930s and 1940s and has since remained a comic icon. Despite his character's misanthropic, child-hating, alcoholic tendencies, his performances were enduringly popular and Fields became personally defined by them. This critical study of his work provides commentary and background on each of his films, from the early silents through the cameos near the end of his life, with fresh appraisals of his well known classics. Pictures once believed to be lost that have been discovered and restored are discussed, and new information is given on some that remain lost.
Book Synopsis W.C. Fields & Me by : Carlotta Monti
Download or read book W.C. Fields & Me written by Carlotta Monti and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Never Give a Sucker an Even Break by : Ronald J. Fields
Download or read book Never Give a Sucker an Even Break written by Ronald J. Fields and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 21st century looms and business cynicism increases, W.C. Fields holds up a mirror for readers that uncannily reflects the state of the late 20th-century business world. Photos.
Book Synopsis W.C. Fields by Himself by : W. C. Fields
Download or read book W.C. Fields by Himself written by W. C. Fields and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fields never got around to writing his autobiography, but at his death in 1946, he left behind a vast assortment of notes, outlines, scrapbooks, letters, scripts, scenarios, and photographs. Now his grandson, Ronald J. Fields, has edited and woven this wealth of previously unpublished material into a unique new portrait of the Great One--in his own words. This book establishes the true facts about W.C. Fields's early years: how, around 1895, he really got started juggling; how met his future wife Hattie; and how he felt about his incessant tours, triumphs, and film career.
Book Synopsis Man on the Flying Trapeze by : Simon Louvish
Download or read book Man on the Flying Trapeze written by Simon Louvish and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louvish brilliantly sifts through evidence of W.C. Fields' own self-creation to illuminate the vaudeville world from which he rose to become the beloved cinematic curmudgeon and comic genius of his time. Photos.
Book Synopsis Groucho and W.C. Fields by : Wes D. Gehring
Download or read book Groucho and W.C. Fields written by Wes D. Gehring and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hollywood's Hellfire Club by : Gregory William Mank
Download or read book Hollywood's Hellfire Club written by Gregory William Mank and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They made fans go crazy and censors apoplectic, spent fortunes faster than they made them, forged Rembrandts and hung them in major museums, went on trial for committing statutory rape with necrophiliac teenage girls, reinterpreted Hamlet as an incestuous mama's boy,and swilled immeasurable quantities of spirits during week-long parties on wobbly yachts. They were "The Bundy Drive Boys," and they made the Rat Pack look like Cub Scouts. Their self-destructiveness was spectacular, the misanthropy profound, but behind the boozy bravado was a devoted mutual affection. The Bundy Drive Boys' un-bowdlerized stories have never been illustrated so well or told so completely as within Hollywood's Hellfire Club. Author Gregory William Mank also wrote It's Alive!: The Classic Cinema Saga of Frankenstein and Hollywood Cauldron.
Book Synopsis A Flask of Fields by : Richard J. Anobile
Download or read book A Flask of Fields written by Richard J. Anobile and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen by : Arthur Frank Wertheim
Download or read book W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen written by Arthur Frank Wertheim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway’s most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies. As the first biography to use the recently opened Fields Papers at the Motion Picture Academy, the book explores how Fields years as a Follies entertainer portraying a beleaguered husband and a captivating conman became a landmark turning point in his career, leading to his fame as a masterful film comedian. The book also untangles a web of mysteries about Fields’s turbulent private life, from the heartrending stories about the tragic relationship with his calculating wife who refused to divorce him, to his estranged son controlled by his mother, to the seven-year extra-marital affair with a chorus girl that led to the birth of an unwanted child. This electrifying saga illuminates a complex dual personality, whirling from tenderness to brusqueness, who endured so much anguish in order to bring the gift of laughter to millions. Although vilified by Ziegfeld and assailed by demons, Fields survived the cutthroat rigors of Broadway show biz to become a legendary American iconoclast and cultural icon.
Book Synopsis W.C. Fields by Himself by : W. C. Fields
Download or read book W.C. Fields by Himself written by W. C. Fields and published by W H Allen. This book was released on 1974 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Silent Movies of W. C. Fields by : Arthur Frank Wertheim
Download or read book The Silent Movies of W. C. Fields written by Arthur Frank Wertheim and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Frank Wertheim's groundbreaking book is the first to examine W.C. Fields' twelve silent movies and how they influenced his later career in sound films. The author concludes that Fields might never have become one of the prem-ier comedians during the Golden Age of Sound Films without first embarking on a career in silent movies. In this explo-ration, readers will discover new insights and surprises concerning Fields' experiences in this medium. The Silent Movies of W.C. Fields details Fields' early failed screen attempts, which resulted in his decision not to abandon his successful Ziegfeld Follies career, a choice that would prevent him from joining the pantheon of great silent film stars: Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd---each of whom, by 1925, had achieved worldwide recog-nition and success. Wertheim relates how Fields would have to struggle against all types of roadblocks to reach the second pantheon tier - and how legendary filmmaker D. W. Griffith came to his rescue by directing two of his silent pictures. The Silent Movies of W.C. Fields is a comprehensive depiction of Fields' early years in New York and Holly-wood, his personal and professional trials and accomplishments, his triumphs and disillusionments, each of which would lead to his ultimate screen legacy. Generously illustrated with many new and rare photos, The Silent Movies of W.C. Fields will prove invaluable to fans of both the comic genius of W.C. Fields and his pristine time of moviemaking. Arthur Frank Wertheim has written numerous books on Twentieth Century American Culture including The New York Little Renaissance and Radio Comedy. He has also co-edited with Barbara Bair three volumes on the The Papers of Will Rogers and edited Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies and American Popular Culture. An American history professor at several universities, his awards include a Fulbright grant to teach at the Univer-sity of Indonesia. He has recently published a three-volume biography on W. C. Fields.
Book Synopsis W. C. Fields by Himself by : William Claude Fields
Download or read book W. C. Fields by Himself written by William Claude Fields and published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1973 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At his death in 1946, W.C. Fields left behind a vast assortment of notes, outlines, scrapbooks, letters, scripts, scenarios, and photographs. His grandson, Ronald J. Fields, has edited and woven this wealth of hitherto unpublished material into a unique new portrait of the great one--in his own words.
Download or read book Buffoon Men written by Scott Balcerzak and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film scholars and fans have used distinctive terms to describe the Classic Hollywood comedian: He is a "trickster," a "rebel," or a "buffoon." Yet the performer is almost always described as a "he." In Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity, Scott Balcerzak reads the performances of notable comedians such as W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello through humor and queer theory to expose a problematic history of maleness in their personas. He argues that contrary to popular notions of Classic Hollywood history, these male comedians rearranged or, at times, rejected heteronormative protocols. Balcerzak begins by defining the particular buffoonish masculinity portrayed by early film comedians, a gender and genre construct influenced by the cultural anxieties of the 1930s and '40s. In chapter 1, he considers the onscreen pairing of W. C. Fields and Mae West to identify a queered sexuality and drag persona in Fields's performance, while in chapter 2 he examines the two major constructions of Fields's film persona-the confidence man and the husband-to show Fields to be a conflicted and subversive figure. In chapter 3, Balcerzak considers the assimilation and influence of Eddie Cantor as a Jewish celebrity, while he turns to the cross-media influence of Jack Benny's radio persona in chapter 4. In Chapters 5 and 6, he moves beyond the individual performer to examine the complex masculine brotherhood of comedy duos Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, and Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. Buffoon Men shows that the complicated history of the male comedian during the early sound era has much to tell us about multimedia comedic stars today. Fans and scholars of film history, gender studies, and broadcast studies will appreciate Balcerzak's thorough exploration of the era's fascinating gender constructs.
Book Synopsis Never Trust a Man who Doesn't Drink by : William Claude Fields
Download or read book Never Trust a Man who Doesn't Drink written by William Claude Fields and published by . This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biting and funny quotes on alcohol by the actor who never met a whiskey he didn't like.
Download or read book W. C. Fields by Himself written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis W. C. Fields by Himself by : W. C. Fields
Download or read book W. C. Fields by Himself written by W. C. Fields and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
