James L. Neibaur

The W.C. Fields Films

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Produktbeschreibung

"W.C. Fields was one of the top comedians during Hollywood's Golden Era of the 1930s and 1940s and has remained a comic icon. 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 appraisals of his well known classics"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9781476665306
• ISBN-10: 1476665303
• Artikelnr.: 45515358

Autorenporträt

James L. Neibaur is a film historian and educator with more than 30 books and hundreds of articles appearing in Cineaste, Classic Images, Film Quarterly, Films in Review, Filmfax, and Encyclopædia Britannica.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface The Early Life of W. C. Fields: 1880
1915
The Films
Pool Sharks His Lordship's Dilemma Janice Meredith 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 The Golf Specialist Her Majesty, Love Million Dollar Legs If I Had a Million The Dentist The Fatal Glass of Beer The Pharmacist The Barber Shop International House Tillie and Gus Alice in Wonderland Six of a Kind You're Telling Me The Old Fashioned Way Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch It's a Gift David Copperfield Mississippi Man on the Flying Trapeze Poppy The Big Broadcast of 1938 You Can't Cheat an Honest Man My Little Chickadee The Bank Dick Never Give a Sucker an Even Break The Final Years: 1942-1946 The W. C. Fields Legacy Notes Bibliography Index