W. C. Fields : A Biography W. C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography W.C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK : W.C. Fields On Business A Flask of Fields: Verbal and Visual Gems from the Films of W.C. Fields W.C. Fields in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break and Tillie and Gus Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields The Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W.C. Fields Groucho and W.C. Fields: Huckster Comedians (Studies in Popular Culture)

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• Fields was a funny, unique, and very popular star of the 1930's. ... Fields films were "David Copperfield," "Alice in Wonderland," "The Bank Dick," and "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. ...
• Fields somehow made his people hating (especially women and children), grumpy persona fun and likable. Fields was actually more colorful and eccentric than his bizarre screen characterizations, but enough of the "real Fields" got on the screen to earn him film immortality and millions of fans around the world. ...
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• The Fields revival peaked in the mid-'70s, with the release of W. ... Fields and Me, a more than serviceable biography starring Rod Steiger as the juggler/pool shark turned Hollywood comedian. After that, Fields' films disappeared into a Hollywood haze of lavish color, faster-paced action and gags raunchier than Fields ever got away with even before the Hollywood censors toned him down. ...
• While the Marx Brothers have maintained a sizable fan base and Laurel & Hardy have the Sons of the Desert to keep their memory alive, Fields fare has dwindled over the years. ...
• But that all ended in 1998 with the release on video of four of Fields' formative features from the '30s: Million Dollar Legs (1932), You're Telling Me (1934), It's a Gift (1934) and You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939). ...
• Based on a story by Fields himself, it shows him as most people -- even those who've never seen a Fields film -- remember him: the good-natured blowhard, genial con artist and acrobatic tippler with a talent for saying the exact wrong thing at the best possible moment. ...
• Whipsnade (the jokes never get any better, but they pile up so fast you eventually have to laugh at them), Fields is in his element: he does a silly turn as the bearded lady, spars with his favorite radio nemesis, ventriloquist's dummy Charlie McCarthy; and ruins his daughter's chances to marry into society by telling an ill-timed snake tale that has everyone screaming, including the audience. ...
• In it, Fields perfects the character that soon came to dominate his films: the patient dreamer who suffers fools gladly long after most of his screen contemporaries would have pulled a trap door on them, or at least asked them to "pick two. ...
• Witness the scene in which, under ceaseless torment from his wife, Fields finds it impossible to sleep in the house so he strings up a hammock on the porch, where he's similarly tormented by a man looking for one "Carl LaFong -- capital 'L,' small 'a,' capital 'F,' small 'o,' small 'n,' small 'g. ... LaFong's name -- is a study in irritation that's never been topped, even by Fields himself. ...
• It's unlikely that these releases will fuel another Fields revival. But after years of scarcity, it's nice to know that -- video rental and retail stores willing -- we'll soon be able to graze in Fields aplenty.

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• One of Fields's best vehicles has the Great Man as a memory expert and henpecked family man who just wants to take time off to go to the wrestling show in town. ...
• Another fabulous Fields vehicle stars the Great Man as a 19th century showman leading his acting troupe in a touring production of the Drunkard. ... This is the one with Fields's juggling routine. ...
• Fields and Alison Skipworth star in this laid back comedy as two card sharks who aid their niece by entering a steamboat race. ...
• Fields recreates his famous stage role as Dr. ... Fields adopts a girl named Poppy who dreams of settling down and finding her roots. ...
• Fields in this tale of pre Civil War honor. After being disgraced Bing seeks refuge on Fields's riverboat where he becomes known as the Singing Killer. ...
• Fields, Gary Cooper, George Raft, Charles Laughton, and Charlie Ruggles are among the stars. Fields's skit is great as he uses his million to take revenge on lousy drivers! Excellent quality. ...
• Fields as Humpty Dumpty and Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle! Very good quality. ...
• Fields provides some excellent comic relief as Miller's dad. ...

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• Fields (William Claude Duckenfield), (1879-1946), U. ... During his more modest vaudeville career, it finally occurred to Fields that he could make a great deal more money simply by using the character traits he already possessed. So it happened that Fields launched a new career as a comic, portraying a character who drank too much, was a confirmed cynic, detested children, and generally was against "motherhood, fatherhood, and brotherhood. ...
• If anything, his character was a moderated version of himself, as Fields had an outlook so peculiar that it would have appeared wholly contrived on the screen, For instance, as a result of having been stranded a number of times in remote parts of the country when his funds ran low, in his more prosperous years Fields took to stashing sums of money in numerous scattered banks under assumed names--much to the consternation of his heirs after his death. ...
• Fields wrote almost all his own material and maintained such control that he wrote, directed, and starred in some of his major pictures--all at the same time. Even when someone else served as director, since Fields improvised extensively on the set he was in effective charge anyway, as no one knew what he was going to do next. ...
• Although the story sounds apocryphal, no less an authority than Bartlett's tells about Fields on his deathbed. A lifelong agnostic on screen and off, Fields was observed by several visitors reading a bible with fairly serious concentration. ...
• When questioned about his actions, Fields replied simply, .
• Fields had a successful career in Vaudeville before he learned that much more money could be made on the screen portraying a character possessed of the same curmudgeonly traits he personally had anyway. Always a professional performer and rarely shaken, the story is told of one occasion when someone got the better of Fields (who never forgot or forgave the incident). ...
• The night the Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 opened in New York, Frisco did his own number and then was supposed to introduce Fields. ...
• Instead of introducing Fields, however, Frisco pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket and said in an excited voice, .
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• Fields in his tramp juggler makeup, shot in San Francisco in 1900 on the occasion of his first vaudeville appearance. Ethnic comics were a mainstay of vaudeville, and although Fields never intended to be one, he was nonetheless praised for his "Hebraic" look and his "pawnbroker attitudes. ...

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• Fields was the most successful comedy juggler of his generation. ...
• Fields was billed as 'The Eccentric Juggler'. ...
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• Here are some recollections of Fields by H. ...
• Here is Fields own description of the same period, extracted from an article called "From Boy Juggler to Star Comedian" published in Theatre Magazine in October 1928. The article shows Fields' life long fascination with his own salary, and his happy disregard for mere factual accuracy.
• Here is a review of Fields' first appearance in London from Black and White Budget, March 16th, 1901, including pictures of several of his tricks. ...
• This is an extract from a review of Fields' appearance in the musical comedy "Ballyhoo", which was published in Nation in January 1931. It's a glowing description of how Fields used juggling to present his stage character.
• Here is an article on Fields as a juggler by Rich Chamberlin, published in the May 1983 edition of Juggler's World. It includes a biography and descriptions of some of his tricks, and is illustrated with a self-portrait by Fields.
• Fields stamp (pictured above) is described in this article from the IJA Newsletter, March 1981.
• This is an article on Fields' attitude to stealing material from other performers, including an ad he placed in Variety to attempt to protect a bit of his 'business'.
• Here is an illustration of some of the tricks in Fields' pool table routine.
• Fields Fan Club home page. ... C Fields Fan Club, PO Box 506, Stratford, NJ 08084-0506. ...

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• Fields dabbled in motion pictures in 1915. The two films didn’t do well, and Fields continued his stage work. ... His entire silent era work was done wearing a small black moustache that is unfamiliar to audience that have only seen Fields’ sound films.
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• Fields & Mae West, "My Little Chickadee".

• Fields in Kent .
• Fields      As a resident of Kent, Ohio who enjoys the films of W. ... Fields, I've often thought about the time Fields was in my town. Perhaps you have read the account of Fields being stranded in Kent during a cold December in 1898, when he was 18 years old and performing there with a travelling burlesque troupe. ...
• Fields: His Follies and Fortunes, juggler Fields and his fellow performers in the "Monte Carlo Girls" review were abandoned in mid-tour by their manager in Kent, Ohio with no pay. ...   Fields had his bags on the pavement outside of the hotel and only $6 in his pocket with which to get home. ...   Fields reportedly sat on a bench and wept at this unexpected act of  kindness and trust.   Two years later, just before Christmas, Fields repaid the agent by sending him two $10 bills (one for "interest").   Fields never forgot the agent's kindness. ...
•      It’s quite possible that the story came to us with quite a few of Fields’ embellishments.   Nevertheless, Fields never forgot what happened to him in Kent (perhaps lessons in both mistrust and trust), and the story has become part of his legend. ...
•      I thought that other Fields fans might be interested in seeing some of the places Fields visited in Kent that day over one hundred years ago. ...
• Fields' footsteps that cold day in 1898. ...

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• Fields, was a master comic with an unforgettable screen presence who slyly tossed witty lines under his breath. ...
• Born in Philadelphia, at age nine the colorful Fields practiced hard and believed he could become the world's greatest juggler. ...
• "Arich man is nothing but a poor man with money," observed Fields.
• With large nose and grouchy voice, the alcohol-guzzling, cigar-chomping Fields picked on everything--men, women, children (he likes 'em "fried and well done" or "go way kid, you bother me"), and animals. ...
• "No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth and human sympathy underneath his rogueries," said Fields who with typical pompous humor called himself "the Great Man. ...

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• Fields (born William Claude Dukenfield) ran away from home at age 11. Continuous exposure to cold weather gave his voice its distinctive hoarse timbre, while constant fights with bigger kids gave Fields his trademarked red, battered nose. Perfecting his skills as a juggler until his fingers bled, Fields became a vaudeville headliner before the age of 21, traveling the world with his pantomimed comedy juggling act. ... Fields -- Tramp Juggler," as he then billed himself, achieved the pinnacle of stage stardom by signing on with impresario Flo Ziegfeld. Somewhere along the line the comedian decided to speak on stage, to the everlasting gratitude of Fields fans everywhere. Though his flowery, pompous comic dialogue would seem to have been indispensable, Fields did rather well in silent films (the first was the 1915 one-reeler Pool Sharks) thanks to his keen juggler's dexterity. In 1923, Fields took Broadway by storm with a part specially written for him in the musical Poppy. ... Griffith in 1925; incredible as it may seem, Fields was not the first choice for the film, but once ensconced in celluloid (to use a Fields-like turn of phrase), he became a favorite of small-town and rural movie fans -- even though it was those very fans who were often the targets of Field's brand of social satire. ...
• From 1930 through 1934, Fields appeared in talking feature films and short subjects, truly hitting his stride in It's a Gift (1934), which contained his famous "sleeping on the back porch" stage sketch. ... His film characters also embraced his offstage adoration of alcoholic beverages (Fields was one of the more conspicuous and prolific drinkers of his time). In private life, Fields was perhaps Hollywood's most enigmatic personality. ... Fields was a man who often showed up late and hung over on the film set, but who never missed a performance and finished all his films on schedule and under budget. ...
• Though most fans prefer Fields' freewheeling starring comedies, which he wrote under such colorful pseudonyms as "Otis J. Criblecoblis" and "Mahatma Kane Jeeves," he also shone in at least one prestige picture, MGM's David Copperfield (directed by George Cukor, wherein Fields portrayed Mr. ... A serious illness curtailed Fields' film work in 1936, but he made a comeback trading insults with ventriloquist's dummy Charlie McCarthy on radio in 1938. Fields' final films for Universal are a mixed bag; teaming with Mae West in My Little Chickadee (1940), was more surreal than funny, and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) makes very little sense, but The Bank Dick (1940), starring Fields as Egbert Souse is an unadulterated classic. ... Fields died at age 67 on the one holiday he claimed he despised: Christmas Day. ...

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• Fields (January 29, 1880 - December 25, 1946) was an American comedian and actor. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century - a misanthrope who teetered on the edge of buffoonery but never quite fell in, an egotist blind to his own failings, a charming drunk, and a man who hated women, children and dogs, unless they were the wrong sort of women. ...
• Born William Claude Dukenfield, Fields ran away from home at age 11 and entered vaudeville. ...
• Like many vaudevillians, Fields worked in silent films and one-reelers, but he first hit big fame in 1923 in the Broadway musical Poppy, where he perfected his persona as an oily, failed confidence man. Fields later appeared in talking feature films and short subjects, including the 1934 gem It's a Gift, which contained his stage sketch about trying to sleep on the back porch in the midst of nagging family and noisy neighbors. ...
• Illness, worsened by his heavy drinking, stopped Fields' film work for a time, but he made a comeback trading insults with ventriloquist's dummy Charlie McCarthy on radio in 1938. ...
• Fields died on the one holiday he claimed to despise: Christmas Day. ...

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• Fields the juggler bears little resemblance to W. ... Fields of later movie and radio fame. ... Fields drawl and clever wit were confined to off-stage appearances, as he did not add any talking to his act until about 1915. ... Fields made his juggling memorable chiefly through the of comedy. ...
• Eighteen months on this circuit led Fields to New York City, where he received great reviews and a job with the Orpheum Circuit (which lasted four years) at $125 per week. ...
• Fields entered a stage almost barren of props. ...
• A review of his act in the San Francisco Examiner summed it up with, "It is impossible to tell whether Fields makes real or fake mistakes in his juggling. ...
• Standing among a pile of boxes scattered on the stage, Fields would go through a three box routine. ...
• Fields claims to have practiced for two years to perfect the trick of kicking a top hat up to a stick balanced on his forehead. ...
• Fields, Jr. This marked the end of Harriet's stage career and the beginning of the end of her marriage to Fields. Although they remained married for life, Fields separated from her when their son was very young. ... Fields, Jr. ...
• Back on his own again, Fields returned to Europe with his brother (his new assistant) for a second tour. ... For two years (1904-06), Fields played in the musical Ham Tree, as an amusing detective who juggled anything in sight. ... In no time at all, Fields ended up running the show. Fields was fast developing a reputation among managers and agents: "No matter how smart you may be about money, Fields can outsmart you. " Fields felt it was vital to impress two things on the management; that he was an outstanding juggler, and that he should get more money. ...

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