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What Made Pistachio Nuts? (1992)
Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic
Sujet : Genre > Comedy/Humor
Three Stooges FAQ (2011)
Everything Left to Know About the Eye-Poking, Face-Slapping, Head-Thumping Geniuses
Sujet : Actor > The Three Stooges
The Comic World of the Marx Brothers' Movies (2007)
"Anything Further Father?"
Sujet : Actor > Marx Brothers
W.C. Fields - An Annotated Guide (2014)
Chronology, Bibliographies, Discography, Filmographies, Press Books, Cigarette Cards, Film Clips and Impersonators
Sujet : Actor > W.C. Fields
The Drop Dead Funny '70s (2023)
American Film Comedies Year by Year
de Dan Lalande
Sujet : Genre > Comedy/Humor
Inside Comedy (2023)
The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five Decades
Sujet : Genre > Comedy/Humor
Man on the Flying Trapeze
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Description de l'ouvrage:
To most people W. C. Fields is an instantly recognisable figure, aclassic icon of film comedy. But the full and true tale of the life and art of the clown who dubbed himself ‘The Great Man’ has, astonishingly, never been told. This is the first book to relate in detail William Claude Dukenfield’s artistic path to the cinema, disentangling the facts from the pack of lies and myths mischievously nurtured by Fields himself. Following meticulous research in a host of archives, including the personal scrapbooks of Fields himself, Simon Louvish lovingly traces the origins of Fields’ comedy in his self-authored vaudeville sketches, then follows his career from stage to silent screen, revealing the sources of his great talkie routines, and highlighting his later tragic struggle, against studio heads,censorship, alcohol addiction and illness, to create some of the greatest gems of screen humour.
À propos de l'auteur :
Simon Louvish was born in Glasgow in 1947 and misspent his youth growing up in Israel between 1949 and 1968, including a stint as an army cameraman from 1965 to 1967. Having decamped to the London School of Film Technique in 1968, Simon became involved in the production of a series of independent documentary films about apartheid in South Africa,…
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