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W.C. Fields from sound film and radio comedy to stardom : becoming a cultural icon /

W.C. Fields is known as a virtuoso comedian and legendary iconoclast who gave the gift of laughter to multitudes. As the first author to use the newly-opened Fields Papers at the Academy library, Arthur Frank Wertheim illuminates the comedian's arduous ascent to stardom during Hollywood's...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wertheim, Arthur Frank, 1935- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Series:Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
Subjects:
Fields, W. C. > (William Claude), > 1880-1946.
Actors > United States > Biography.
Comedians > United States > Biography.
Actors.
Comedians.
United States.
Biography.

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