Description: William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler, and writer. Fields’ comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist, who remained a sympathetic character despite his supposed contempt for children and dogs. His career in show business began in vaudeville, where he attained international success as a silent juggler. He gradually incorporated comedy into his act and was a featured comedian in the Ziegfeld Follies for several years. He became a star in the Broadway musical comedy Poppy (1923), in which he played a colorful small-time con man. His subsequent stage and film roles were often similar scoundrels or henpecked everyman characters.
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His Lordship's Dilemma (Short 1915)
( 1915 )
Fields, a remittance man, with tears in his eyes, informs his valet, Bud, that he is broke and that they must both look for jobs. Unknown to each other, they obtain work carrying advertising signs. Fields stalks the streets under an immense restaurant placard, while Bud staggers along announcing a new brand of indigestion tablets. One day they meet. Fields, having bee...Read all
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Sally of the Sawdust
( 1925 )
Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Prof. McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of Judge Foster's friend, falls in love. When Sally is arrested McGargle proves her real parentage.
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That Royle Girl
( 1925 )
Joan Royle, beautiful but naive model who came from the slums, falls for Fred Ketlar, the leader of a dance band. When Fred's estranged wife Adele is murdered, Fred is arrested and convicted of the crime. Joan believes that the real murderer is Baretta, a gangster who was keeping Adele as his mistress.
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It's the Old Army Game
( 1926 )
Druggist Elmer Prettywillie is sleeping. A woman rings the night bell only to buy a two-cent stamp. Then garbage collectors waken him. Next it's firemen on a false alarm. And then a real fire.
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So's Your Old Man
( 1926 )
An unlucky inventor's attempt to demonstrate his break-proof glass at a convention goes humiliatingly wrong, but his luck may be about to change when he runs into pretty young woman on the train ride home.
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The Potters
( 1927 )
Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?
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Running Wild
( 1927 )
Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fifteen-thousand dollar payoff, so his courage can last beyond the hypnosis.
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Two Flaming Youths
( 1927 )
Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby Gilfoil shows up hoping to take her for some money. Gilfoil is mistaken for the wanted man Slippery Sawtelle. Neither suitor gets Malarkey but manage to take her husband (wealthy Simeon Trott) for a bundle.
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
( 1928 )
An overambitious ringmaster is deviously plotting to have his circus' owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over the whole show. However, World War I intervenes and he eventually aids the Allied cause by joining the German army.
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Fools for Luck
( 1928 )
Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until (surprise) oil is re-discovered.
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Her Majesty, Love
( 1931 )
Wealthy man falls in love with a poor girl and proposes to her, going against the wishes of his family.
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Million Dollar Legs
( 1932 )
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
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The Dentist (Short 1932)
( 1932 )
An unconventional dentist deals with a variety of eccentric and difficult patients in slapstick fashion.
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If I Had a Million
( 1933 )
A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.
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The Pharmacist (Short 1933)
( 1933 )
A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintains his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.
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International House
( 1933 )
Assorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention: television.
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The Barber Shop (Short 1933)
( 1933 )
An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of tonsorial skill.
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Tillie and Gus
( 1933 )
Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry franchise and a boat. The only way to keep the franchise is to win a race against Pratt's boat.
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Six of a Kind
( 1934 )
When a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds.
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You're Telling Me!
( 1934 )
A hard-drinking, socially-awkward inventor wrecks his daughter's chances of marriage into a rich family and bungles his own chances of success by selling one of his more practical inventions.
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The Old Fashioned Way
( 1934 )
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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It's a Gift
( 1934 )
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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Mississippi
( 1935 )
Crosby plays a Philadelpia Quaker engaged to a Southern belle. He becomes a social outcast when he refuses to fight a duel. Fields then hires him to perform on his riverboat, promoting him as "Colonel Steel...the notorious Colonel Steel...the singing killer." The plot then follows a predictable course, but there are plenty of scenes featuring W.C. Fields.
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Man on the Flying Trapeze
( 1935 )
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
( 1934 )
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs, who hasn't been heard from since he wandered off long ago. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. W...Read all
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Poppy
( 1936 )
Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter Poppy.
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The Big Broadcast of 1938
( 1938 )
The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
( 1939 )
The owner of a debt-ridden circus contends with pursuing bill collectors and sheriffs, and his beloved daughter's relationships with one of his performers and a stuffy but wealthy young man.
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My Little Chickadee
( 1940 )
After a scandal runs a gold-digger out of town, she meets a con artist and becomes embroiled in a string of petty deceits.
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The Bank Dick
( 1940 )
Henpecked Egbert Sousé has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard.
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Tales of Manhattan
( 1943 )
A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.
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Follow the Boys
( 1944 )
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to ...Read all
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Song of the Open Road
( 1944 )
Child film star Jane Powell, fed up with her every move being stage managed by her stage mother, runs away and joins the U.S. Crop Corps, a small army of young folks staying at youth hostels and picking crops while adult farmworkers are at war. Totally clueless about the real world, befuddled Jane is embroiled in teen-romance complications while Mother frantically sea...Read all
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Sensations of 1945
( 1944 )
Father and son press agents fail to see things eye to eye, in the final screen appearance of comedian W.C. Fields.
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