W.C. Fields
Sam Bisbee
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You're Telling Me!: Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames. A hard-drinking, socially-awkward inventor wrecks his daughter's chances of marriage into a rich family and bungles his own chances of success by selling one of his more practical inventions.
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- Comedy
- Erle C. Kenton
- 1934-05-18
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 .
When the princess arrives in town and is met by the mayor and other prominent citizens, she insists on seeing her old friend Sam Bisbee, who, she says, saved her life in the war, and Sam, unaware that she is a princess, goes along with the gag.
- Erle C. Kenton
- W. C. Fields
Nov 19, 2015 · You’re Telling Me! puts Fields in one of his typical roles as a hen-pecked husband who toils in abused silence. As Sam Brisbee, he is an optometrist by day but his true love is in being an amateur inventor.
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Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the town snob. Events conspire to ruin his bullet-proof tire just as success seems near.
Apr 19, 2022 · Having failed to sell his latest invention, Sam Bisbee (Fields) meets Marie Lescaboura (Adrienne Ames, The Death Kiss) on the train back to Crystal Springs, unaware that she is a foreign princess traveling incognito.
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