W. C. Fields
Prof. Eustace McGargle
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Poppy is a 1936 comedy film starring W. C. Fields and Rochelle Hudson. The film was based on a 1923 stage revue of the same name starring Fields and Madge Kennedy. This was the second film version of the revue featuring Fields, following Sally of the Sawdust in 1925 with Carol Dempster in the title role.
Poppy. Richard Cromwell. Billy Farnsworth. Catharine Doucet. Countess Maggi Tubbs DePuizzi. Lynne Overman. Attorney [E. G.] Whiffen. Film Details. Genre. Comedy. Drama. Romance. Release Date. Jun 19, 1936. Premiere Information. New York opening: week of 17 Jun 1936. Production Company. Paramount Productions, Inc. Distribution Company.
- A. Edward Sutherland, Richard Harlan
- W. C. Fields
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Synopsis: A con-artist (W.C. Fields) traveling through a small town attempts to pass off his grown daughter, Poppy (Rochelle Hudson), as the long-lost heiress to a local fortune; meanwhile, Poppy falls in love with the mayor’s son (Richard Cromwell), causing scandal in the town. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:
POPPY (Paramount, 1936), directed by A. Edward Sutherland, stars WC Fields as Professor Eustace McGargle, a role he originated in the 1923 stage production of the same name, and reprized in a silent 1925 adaptation retitled SALLY OF THE SAWDUST for United Artists, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Carol Dempster not as Poppy, but as Sally.
Based upon the 1923 musical comedy by Dorothy Donnelly, this film from director A. Edward Sutherland features W.C. Fields as a carny named Professor Eustace P. McGargle. He travels the country with his grown daughter Poppy (Rochelle Hudson), conducting shell games and selling bottles of elixir, while she sings to attract crowds.
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