W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen: Becoming a Character Comedian

by Arthur Frank Wertheim

Book Overview

Introduction.- Prologue. Becoming a Character Comedian.- Part I. 1915 - A Momentous Year.- 1. Confronting Florenz Ziegfeld.- 2. Pool Sharks and His Lordship's Dilemma.- Part II. The Beleagered Sportsman.- 3. Spoofing Croquet.- 4. Lampooning Tennis.- 5. The Frustrated Duffer.- Part III. Entr'actes.- 6. The Three Musketeers.- 7. Bessie and Hattie.- 8. Fields's Well Never Went Dry.- 9. From the Midnight Frolic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349956953
• ISBN13: 9781349956951
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"