The 1930s film comedian/curmudgeon W.C. Fields was always at his best when he had an irritant to bounce his biting one-liners against, like a precocious child, a cute dog or the voluptuous Mae ...

Fields knew that playing Micawber would require almost no leap — that, with his bulbous nose and unique manner of speech, he already was as Dickensian as Micawber — and that he could stamp the ...

W.C. Fields may have been the earliest comic to refer humorously to Cucamonga, via an exchange of dialogue in the 1934 comedy “The Old Fashioned Way.” (Wikimedia Commons) ...

A sparkling new edition of the charming comedy that teamed legendary comedian W. C. Fields on screen with the equally legendary silent film siren (and Rochester favorite) Louise Brooks has just ...

That was in 1973. W.C. Fields by Himself consisted mainly of W.C.’s own lines edited by his grandson. “I went back to writing stories. Then I met somebody at a party and he said, ‘Why not do ...

WC Fields was a sloshed-out comic genius who couldn't help but take his work home with him—and suffered the grim consequences because of it.

The weekend 10 a.m. matinee enticed me: W.C. Fields in “The Old Fashioned Way.” I got there via Metrolink, taking the first train, transferring to the B Line subway, disembarking at Vermont/Sunset and ...