W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen Becoming a Character Comedian /
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| 總結: | XXII, 270 p. 14 illus., 1 illus. in color. text |
| 語言: | 英语 |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| 版: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| 叢編: | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History,
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| 在線閱讀: | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94986-1 |
| 格式: | 電子 圖書 |
書本目錄:
- 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.