W. C. Fields : his follies and fortunes (1949)

Record Details:

Title:
W. C. Fields : his follies and fortunes
Date:
1949
Publisher:
Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Volume:
W. C. Fields : his follies and fortunes
Leaf #:
00021
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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"He probably forgot it," Fields replied. Finding the producers adamant, he suggested a happy alternative : he would substitute an act in which he performed at a pool table and told an anecdote about snakes. He thought it would work in rather neatly following the funeral of Copperfield's mother. Metro, to his indignation, still preferred the Dickens version, and he sulked for weeks. When the shooting began, his English accent turned out to be pure Fields, a high nasal mutter loaded with pretentious articulation. The studio railed in vain. "My father was an Englishman, and I got this accent from him," he kept saying. "Are you trying to go against nature?"