Titlebook: W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen; Becoming a Character Arthur Frank Wertheim Book 2016 The Editor(s)

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Two Legendary Iconoclasts Converged Goodman’s Manhattan apartment for an evening of conversation and poker. At the apartment he met prominent authors such as Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and H.L. Mencken..The meeting of Mencken and Fields was an historic encounter between two legendary US iconoclasts. Mencken, co-edited the fam

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Two Legendary Iconoclasts Converged Goodman’s Manhattan apartment for an evening of conversation and poker. At the apartment he met prominent authors such as Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and H.L. Mencken..The meeting of Mencken and Fields was an historic encounter between two legendary US iconoclasts. Mencken, co-edited the fam

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Spoofing Croquetsing a magnetized mallet makes the ball go through all the wickets in one shot. He spoofs the sport that was then popular among the affluent. He performed a variation of the croquet scene twenty years later in the film . (1936). His spoof of croquet reveals the beginning of him as a satirist.

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Confronting Florenz Ziegfeld“didn’t have a lot of use for comedians” and were considered fillers between chorus girls and flashy dance numbers. Fields’s relationship with Ziegfeld was always tense; arguments about salary and over Fields’s performances often occurred. He, consequently, always worried about being fired.

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and , ., and . (1944). He also made a second short, ., which is unfortunately lost since Fields plays a character, a remittance man and his troubles. Stills reveal that Fields performed a routine playing golf, a sketch he introduced in the 1918 . and repeated in his films.

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