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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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- Norman Z. McLeod
- Passed
- Comedy
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.
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- Comedy
- William Beaudine
- 1934-07-13
Website. wcfields .com. William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 [1] – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American actor, comedian, juggler, and writer. [2] Fields's career in show business began in vaudeville, where he attained international success as a silent juggler. He began to incorporate comedy into his act and ...
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 ...
- Norman Mcleod
- W. C. Fields
W.C. Fields (1880-1946) W.C. Fields. 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 ...
It's a Gift. 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). The film concerns the trials and tribulations of a grocer as he battles a shrewish wife ...
