Download or read book W C Fields from Sound Film and Radio Comedy to Stardom written by Arthur Frank Wertheim and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. C. Fields is known as a virtuoso comedian and legendary iconoclast who gave the gift of laughter to multitudes. As the first author to use the newly-opened Fields Papers at the Academy library, Arthur Frank Wertheim illuminates the comedian’s arduous ascent to stardom during Hollywood's golden age. The book reveals details of Fields’s turbulent private life, from his wife's refusal to divorce, to his estranged son, and to his fleeting relationships with women. Here is a portrait of an aggrieved artist whose emotional anguish found refuge in his poignant comedy about life’s frustrations and the human condition. This third volume in Wertheim's trilogy documents Fields's rise to iconic status during the counterculture 1960s, creating a legacy of his comedy for generations to come.
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.
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:
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.
Download or read book W C Fields from Burlesque and Vaudeville to Broadway written by A. Wertheim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. C. Fields was a virtuoso comedian, often called a comic genius, legendary iconoclast, and "Great Man," who brought so much laughter to millions while enduring so much anguish. This book explores his little-known, long stage career from 1898 to 1930, which had a major influence on his comedy and screen presence.
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 276 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.
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 613 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.
Download or read book The Golden Age of Sound Comedy written by Donald W. McCaffrey and published by South Brunswick [N.J.] : A. S. Barnes. This book was released on 1973 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Golden Age of Sound Comedy attempts to show the continuation of several comic traditions and the development of new ones in the Thirties."--The introduction.
Download or read book The W C Fields Films written by James L. Neibaur and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-31 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.
Download or read book W C Fields written by Blythe Foote Finke and published by Story House Corporation. This book was released on 1972 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the actor whose life, through his stage and film performances, was "an attack against the phonies of the world."
Download or read book W C Fields from Burlesque and Vaudeville to Broadway written by A Wertheim and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2017-03-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. C. Fields was a virtuoso comedian, often called a comic genius, legendary iconoclast, and "Great Man," who brought so much laughter to millions while enduring so much anguish. This book explores his little-known, long stage career from 1898 to 1930, which had a major influence on his comedy and screen presence.
Download or read book W C Fields an Annotated Guide written by David T. Rocks and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A documented chronology traces Fields' work in all media. The bibliographies cover 16 typescripts and more than 525 books and periodicals, with full annotations describing the work and setting it in context. Studio, date of release, length, director and cast credits are listed in the filmography. The discography includes all albums on which Fields appeared. Also detailed are the 17 cigarette cards that featured Fields.
Download or read book The Art of W C Fields written by William K. Everson and published by Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill. This book was released on 1967 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in vaudeville, then in silent films, the comic art of W. C. Fields was his unique ability, antic imagination with masterful pantomime. With the coming of the talkies, Fields added his own special brand of caustic dialogue, to reign for many years as a film star of the first rank.
Download or read book Sound Matters written by Nora M. Alter and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working across established disciplines & methodological divides, these essays investigate the ways in which texts, artists, & performers in all kinds of media have utilized sound materials in order to enforce or complicate dominant notions of German cultural & national identity.
Download or read book Film Comedy written by Geoff King and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy is one of the most popular forms in film. But what exactly is film comedy and what might be the basis of its widespread appeal? This book takes a multi-perspective approach to answering these questions.
Download or read book Mass Communication and American Social Thought written by John Durham Peters and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles are reproduced in their entirety to preserve the historical flavor and texture of the original works. Topics include popular theater, yellow journalism, cinema, books, public relations, political and military propaganda, advertising, opinion polling, photography, the avant-garde, popular magazines, comics, the urban press, radio drama, soap opera, popular music, and television drama and news. This text is ideal for upper-level courses in mass communication and media theory, media and society, mass communication effects, and mass media history.
Download or read book W C Fields 188 Success Facts Everything You Need to Know about W C Fields written by Steve Spencer and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new benchmark in W. C. Fields. 'William Claude Dukenfield' (January 29, 1880Conflicts over the genuine details of W.C. Fields' life start at the time he was born. His first profiler, Taylor, even received this off beam, dating his birthing at 9 April 1879, that ought to have produced him an bona genuine mongrel, as his father and mother were solely wedded on 18 May of the similar annum. According to kin Lore, the Great Man was born on 29 January 1880. Louvish, Simon Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields. Faber Faber, 1999. ISBN 0-393-04127-1 This book is your ultimate resource for W. C. Fields. Here you will find the most up-to-date 188 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about W. C. Fields's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Lost in Translation (film) - Reviews, Running Wild (1927 film), Bob Hope filmography, A. Edward Sutherland - Sound era, A. Edward Sutherland - Silent era, Grant Withers - Early life and career, Mack Sennett - Keystone Studios, The Big Broadcast of 1938 - Cast, Frank Morgan - Career and The Wizard of Oz, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934 film) - Plot, If I Had A Million - Cast (in credits order), Columbia Amusement Company - Early years, Bayside, Queens - Notable people, 1928 in film - Notable films released in 1928, Man on the Flying Trapeze - Cast, 1935 in film - Notable films released in 1935, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, 1932 in film - Notable films released in 1932, Comedy film - 1930ndash;1950s, W. C. Fields - Early years, Poppy (1936 film), What's New Mr. Magoo? - History, Self-Reliance - In popular culture, Robert Lewis Taylor - Bibliography, American burlesque - Notable writers, stars and agents, 1941 in film - Notable films released in 1941, Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City - F, and much more...
