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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wertheim, Arthur Frank (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XXII, 270 p. 14 illus., 1 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History,
Subjects:
Theater > History.
Motion pictures > History.
Ethnology > America.
Culture.
Motion pictures, American.
Theatre History.
Film and TV History.
American Culture.
American Film and TV.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94986-1
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • 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 to the Front Lines
  • Part IV. Lampooning the Dysfuntional Family
  • 10. The Flivertons
  • 11. The Breakup with Ziegfeld
  • Part V. Broadway Stardom
  • 12. Oh, what a Scandal!
  • 13. “Confidence Man of the Ages”
  • 14. Two Legendary Iconolasts Converge
  • 15. The Comic Supplement
  • 16. A Follies Farewell
  • Epilogue. Fields Encounters D. W. Griffith
  • Appendix. The Ziegfeld Mystique.

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