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W.C. Fields. Actor, Writer, Director. Born January 29, 1880 in Darby, Pennsylvania, USA. William Claude Dukenfield was the eldest of five children born to Cockney immigrant James Dukenfield and Philadelphia native Kate Felton. He went to school for four years, then quit to work with his father selling vegetables from a horse cart.
The legendary W.C. Fields is featured in rare behind-the-scenes footage and home movies at work and at play, along with hilarious scenes from some of his greatest films. IMDb 6.7 52min 2005 7+
W.C. Fields: 1941: Never Give a Sucker an Even Break: The Great Man/W.C. Fields/Uncle Bill: 1940: The Bank Dick: Egbert Sousé ...
Though "Gift" and "Bank Dick" are the best of the lot, there is much to admire in all five of these vehicles- to wit, the great man himself. For devotees of vintage comedy, this memorable box set is very much worth owning- and sharing. Universal releases five of Fields's best features, a fitting retrospective to one of film's most brilliant ...
Bank Dick, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Motion Picture History Lush Egbert Sousè (screenwriter and star W.C. Fields) has bluffed his way into substitute-directing a movie shooting in his hometown, Reed Hadley his star, his young daughter (Evelyn Del Rio) blowing it, in The Bank Dick, 1940.
William Claude Dukenfield was the eldest of five children born to Cockney immigrant James Dukenfield and Philadelphia native Kate Felton. He went to school for four years, then quit to work with his father selling vegetables from a horse cart. At eleven, after many fights with his alcoholic father (who hit him on the head with a shovel), he ran away from home. For a while he lived in a hole in ...
This is quite simply the most comprehensive collection of W. C. Fields' films ever packaged. First released by Universal five years ago, this 10-disc collection has seventeen Fields classics, including "Million Dollar Legs," "If I Had a Million," "Tillie and Gus," "Mississippi," "The Big Broadcast of 1938," and "Six of a Kind"--none of which are contained in either volume one or two of the W ...
