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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 ...
You're Telling Me! is a 1934 pre-Code comedy film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring W.C. Fields. It is a remake of the silent film So's Your Old Man (1926), also starring Fields. Both films are adapted from the story Mr. Bisbee’s Princess by Julian Leonard Street. It was released by Paramount Pictures .
It's A Gift (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I Want Ten Pounds Of Cumquats The second source of frustration in the life of New Jersey grocer Bissonette (W.C. Fields), where he has incompetent help (Tammany Young), a customer seeking cumquats (Morgan Wallace) and another who’s blind (Charles Sellon), in It’s A Gift, 1934, co-written by Fields as ...
It's A Gift (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I Want Ten Pounds Of Cumquats The second source of frustration in the life of New Jersey grocer Bissonette (W.C. Fields), where he has incompetent help (Tammany Young), a customer seeking cumquats (Morgan Wallace) and another who’s blind (Charles Sellon), in It’s A Gift, 1934, co-written by Fields as ...
It's a Gift (1934) is often cited as W. C. Fields' best and funniest picture - it is undoubtedly one of the greatest, classic comedies ever made, although it is probably less well-known than his other two masterpieces: The Bank Dick (1940) and My Little Chickadee (1940). It was his sixteenth (out of twenty-eight) sound film - this time directed ...
The Old Fashioned Way: Directed by William Beaudine. With W.C. Fields, Joe Morrison, Baby LeRoy, Judith Allen. The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.
