#W. C. Fields

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Alice in Wonderland (1933)

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"'I cook with wine. Sometimes, I even add it to the food." ― W. C. Fields

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W.C. Fields for #NationalDentistDay

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Al Hirschfeld “Great Comedians” Featuring W.C.Fields, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Groucho Marx

Quite the quartet. My choice for lunch mate would be Groucho, hands down. Al put the boozy, chatty Fields with the mute tramp, and the gregarious Groucho with the silent Keaton.

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W.C. Fields and Lou Costello... Comedy Legends

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ZaSu Pitts-W. C. Fields "Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch" 1934, de Norman Taurog.

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Cucino con il vino, a volte ci aggiungo anche del cibo....

buona cena

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Janet Jackson with W.C. Fields

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Mabe , maby not

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Episode 684: This is a funny house we live in

Dark Shadows has two ongoing storylines at this point. Mysterious drifter Chris Jennings came to town a couple of months ago and turned out to be a werewolf. Heiress Carolyn Collins Stoddard does not know of Chris’ curse. She has taken a fancy to him and set him up in the caretaker’s cottage on the estate of Collinwood. Old world gentleman Barnabas Collins and mad scientist Julia Hoffman do know…

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And now for something completely different...

JUDGE, March 15, 1924

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The cast of Edward Cline’s MILLION DOLLAR LEGS (1932) includes W.C. Fields, Hugh Herbert, Andy Clyde, Susan Fleming, Jack Oakie, Lyda Roberti, and Ben Turpin

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Come Up and See Me Sometime…

I'm curious about pop icons. For earlier eras, a single phrase immediately identified a single person, a skirt blown up by a passing subway below said Marilyn, a face with a lightening bolt makeup was Bowie.

Somehow I got to be this age before I ever really noticed Sammy Kaye. A chance interview from the mid-70s made me wonder how that happened: Sammy Kaye was a top-tier star of the Swing Era, and I'm not unfamiliar with Swing, yet the name, if it ever came up, was glossed over, I had no recordings, not even in Various Artists complilations. Intrigued, I looked up the movie Sammy mentioned, endorsing it for the artistic freedom and respect it afforded the band

and yes, that's your Star Wars intro, on a film released on D-Day 1944.

But, being curious, I asked my 25 year old (who has led many a swing band) and no, never heard of him. Really. What about W.C.Fields?

And there I got my Future Shock. W.C. who? Ok, well, Edgar Bergen then? Blanks. A paper I read on music history had pondered this, as to why some artists are remembered as iconic for their time but not the many eligible others, the many who were as honoured, sometimes more, by their era. The paper concluded the 20th Century would likely be identified as the era of Bob Dylan.

Here in the 21st century, who are our cultural symbols? Who are the pop icons so distinctive and ubiquitous that a single phrase, a graphic line, a gesture or a feature of their face even badly drawn instantly recalls who they are?