Man on the flying trapeze : the life and times of W.C. Fields / Simon Louvish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Louvish, Simon.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fields, W. C. (William Claude), 1880-1946.

Fields, W. C.

Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, 548 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Faber and Faber, 1999.

Summary:

The first book to relate in detail William Claude Dukenfield's artistic journey as W.C. Fields into cinema history, disentangling the facts from the pack of lies and myths mischievously nurtured by Fields himself. Following meticulous research in a host of archives, including the personal scrapbooks of Fields himself, it lovingly traces the origins of his comedy in his self-authored vaudeville sketches, then follows his career from stage to silent screen, revealing the sources of his great Talkie routines, and highlighting his later tragic struggles.

Notes:

Originally published: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0571197728

9780571197729

OCLC:

40715430