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W.C. Fields : a life on film / Ronald J. Fields ; filmography compiled by Richard W. Bann.
- Title
- W.C. Fields : a life on film / Ronald J. Fields ; filmography compiled by Richard W. Bann.
- Author
- Fields, Ronald J., 1949-
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, c1984.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PN2287.F45 F45 1984 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bann, Richard W.
- Description
- 256 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
- Summary
- Provides plot summaries, cast, credits, and stills for all of Fields' films, explains why he made each film, and discusses his long career as a performer.
- Alternative Title
- WC Fields.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Key to Reading This Book -- Prologue -- First Film-No Title -- Pool Sharks -- His Lordship's Dilemma -- lnterlude -- Broadway After Dark -- Janice Meredith -- A Stage Break -- Sally of the Sawdust -- That Royle Girl -- It's the Old Army Game -- So's Your Old Man -- The Potters -- Running Wild -- Two Flaming Youths -- Tillie's Punctured Romance -- Fools for Luck -- A Time for Change -- The Golf Specialist -- Another Interlude -- Her Majesty Love -- Million Dollar Legs -- If I Had a Million -- Mack Sennett Shorts -- The Dentist -- Fatal Glass of Beer -- Pharmacist -- Barber Shop -- Hip Action -- International House -- Hollywood on Parade -- Tillie and Gus -- Alice in Wonderland -- Six of a Kind -- You're Telling Me -- Hollywood on Parade -- The Old Fashioned Way -- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch -- It's a Gift -- David Copperfield -- Mississippi -- Man on the Flying Trapeze -- Poppy -- An Interlude with Radio -- Big Broadcast of 1938 -- Paramount Parting -- You Can't Cheat an Honest Man -- My Little Chickadee -- Bank Dick -- Never Give a Sucker an Even Break -- Laziest Golfer -- Tales of Manhattan -- Follow the Boys -- Song of the Open Road -- Sensations of 1945 - Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0312853114
- 0312853122 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^84002052^
- OCLC
- 10375706
- SCSB-10566888
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library