W. C. Fields
Harold Bissonette
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It's a Gift: Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. With W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol, Julian Madison. A henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges, despite the resistance of his overbearing wife.
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- Comedy
- Norman Z. McLeod
- 1934-11-30
It's a Gift is a 1934 American comedy film starring W.C. Fields. It was Fields's 16th sound film, and his fifth in 1934 alone. It was directed by Norman McLeod, who had directed Fields in his cameo as Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland (1933).
In a departure from his usual misanthropic characters, W. C. Fields plays a mild-mannered, small town shopkeeper who is constantly hounded by his family, customers, and assorted strangers in It's a Gift (1934).
- Norman Mcleod
- W. C. Fields
Harold Bissonette (W.C. Fields) is the owner of a small-town grocery store, husband of a harassing wife (Kathleen Howard) and father of two spoiled children, and his customers aren't much...
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- W.C. Fields
- Norman Z. Mcleod
- Comedy
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).
Nov 1, 2021 · Fields subversively pokes fun at small town mores, mocks family values, makes villains of a blind man and a toddler, and never loses the sympathies of the audience. To call It’s a Gift a comic masterpiece is not hyperbole. It is quite simply one of the finest film comedies ever made.
W.C. Fields. Story. After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove.
