W. C. Fields from Sound Film and Radio Comedy to Stardom: Becoming a Cultural Icon

1. Welcome Back to Hollywood.- 2. The Sennett Quartet.- 3. "The World's Biggest Entertainment Joy Ride".- 4. Three of a Kind.- 5. From Silent to Sound.- 6. Return to the Sawdust Trail.- 7. The Mail-Order Groom.- 8. Magnum Opus.1.- 9. "A Perfect Mixture of the Part and the Actor".- 10. Mississippi River Card Shark.- 11. All in the Family.- 12. A Vocal McGargle Emerges.- 13. "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter".- 14. Battling Sickness.- 15. Radio Saved My Life!.- 16. The Big Broadcast of 1938.- 17. The Paramount Purge.- 18. Battling Universal.- 19. Compustible Co-Stars.- 20. Magnus Opus.2.- 21. The Great Man.- 22. Swan Songs.- 23. Doomsday at Bundy Drive.- 24. Scenes Before the Final Exit.- 25. The Man in the Bright Nightgown Cometh.

Author: Arthur Frank Wertheim
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/21/2019
Pages: 428
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781137473295

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2020

About the Author

Arthur Frank Wertheim is the author of the first two volumes in the W.C. Fields trilogy illuminating the comedian's life and career: W. C. Fields from Burlesque and Vaudeville to Broadway (Palgrave, 2014) and W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen (Palgrave, 2016).