Fields's best silent feature, It's the Old Army Game (1927), was later remade as his breakthrough talkie, It's a Gift (1934). That film, which cast Fields as a grocery clerk who moves his family west to manage a chain of orange groves, established for all time the incomparable W. C. Fields persona.
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W.C. Fields made his film debut in a 1915 silent short called Pool Sharks. It featured a pool ball juggling routine from his vaudeville show. It launched Fields' career and established his public persona as that of a wisecracking, understated hero or hustler who always knew the score.
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W. C. Fields (January 29, 1880 - December 25, 1946) was an American comedian and actor. ... Like many vaudevillians, Fields worked in silent films and one-reelers, but he first hit big fame in 1923 in the Broadway musical Poppy, where he perfected his persona as an oily, failed confidence man.
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W.C. Fields More at IMDbPro » ... IMDb > W.C. Fields ... W.C. Fields products...
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Biography for; W.C. Fields More at IMDbPro » ... Grandfather of Ronald J. Fields, who edited a biography titled "W.C. Fields by Himself". The book dispelled many longstanding stories about Fields, including ones of his living for years on the street.
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Timelessness of W.C. Fields' Art and Humor - Welcome to the official Web site for W.C. Fields, owned and operated by W.C. Fields Productions, Inc. ... Welcome to the official Web site for W.C. Fields, owned and operated by W.C. Fields Productions, Inc.
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FIELDS, W.C. (1880-1946): One of America's greatest comedians, W.C. Fields was a master mimic whose humor and mock pompousness was accompanied by a unique combination of a nasal drawl, wooden expression, and flawlessly timed gestures.
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Almost as cautiously as he won success in the theatre and films during the Twenties, W. C. Fields won the hearts of American schoolboys during the Sixties. A curious idol.
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Top 5 quotes from W.C. Fields ... "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." ... "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." - Copy to Clipboard; -- W.C. Fields;
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