Wc Fields From The Ziegfeld Follies And Broadway Stage To The Screen
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Author | : Arthur Frank Wertheim |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2017-01-16 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1349949868 |
This book reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway’s most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies. As the first biography to use the recently opened Fields Papers at the Motion Picture Academy, the book explores how Fields years as a Follies entertainer portraying a beleaguered husband and a captivating conman became a landmark turning point in his career, leading to his fame as a masterful film comedian. The book also untangles a web of mysteries about Fields’s turbulent private life, from the heartrending stories about the tragic relationship with his calculating wife who refused to divorce him, to his estranged son controlled by his mother, to the seven-year extra-marital affair with a chorus girl that led to the birth of an unwanted child. This electrifying saga illuminates a complex dual personality, whirling from tenderness to brusqueness, who endured so much anguish in order to bring the gift of laughter to millions. Although vilified by Ziegfeld and assailed by demons, Fields survived the cutthroat rigors of Broadway show biz to become a legendary American iconoclast and cultural icon.
Author | : A. Wertheim |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2016-11-09 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137300671 |
W. C. Fields was a virtuoso comedian, often called a comic genius, legendary iconoclast, and "Great Man," who brought so much laughter to millions while enduring so much anguish. This book explores his little-known, long stage career from 1898 to 1930, which had a major influence on his comedy and screen presence.
Author | : Arthur Frank Wertheim |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-01-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781137473295 |
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 golden age. The book reveals details of Fields’s turbulent private life, from his wife's refusal to divorce, to his estranged son, and to his fleeting relationships with women. Here is a portrait of an aggrieved artist whose emotional anguish found refuge in his poignant comedy about life’s frustrations and the human condition. This third volume in Wertheim's trilogy documents Fields's rise to iconic status during the counterculture 1960s, creating a legacy of his comedy for generations to come.
Author | : Cynthia Brideson |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2015-06-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813160901 |
In this definitive biography, Cynthia Brideson and Sara Brideson offer a comprehensive look at both the life and legacy of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Drawing on a wide range of sources, they provide a lively and well-rounded account of Ziegfeld as a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a lover, and an alternately ruthless and benevolent employer. Lavishly illustrated, this is an intimate and in-depth portrait of a figure who profoundly changed American entertainment.
Author | : A. Wertheim |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781349671441 |
W. C. Fields was a virtuoso comedian, often called a comic genius, legendary iconoclast, and "Great Man," who brought so much laughter to millions while enduring so much anguish. This book explores his little-known, long stage career from 1898 to 1930, which had a major influence on his comedy and screen presence.
Author | : Will Rogers |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780806123578 |
A collection of Rogers' writings and observations includes selections from his weekly articles and previously unpublished excerpts from his notes and correspondence
Author | : James Curtis |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Provides a revealing glimpse of the man and artist behind the image of the gin-guzzling misanthrope, discussing Fields' Philadelphia childhood, his career in vaudeville, his turbulent personal life, and his seminal film work.
Author | : Wes D. Gehring |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781617034039 |
Author | : W.C. Fields |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 613 |
Release | : 2016-02-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1630761729 |
Fields never got around to writing his autobiography, but at his death in 1946, he left behind a vast assortment of notes, outlines, scrapbooks, letters, scripts, scenarios, and photographs. Now his grandson, Ronald J. Fields, has edited and woven this wealth of previously unpublished material into a unique new portrait of the Great One--in his own words. This book establishes the true facts about W.C. Fields's early years: how, around 1895, he really got started juggling; how met his future wife Hattie; and how he felt about his incessant tours, triumphs, and film career.
Author | : Ethan Mordden |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2008-11-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1429951524 |
Any girl who twists her hat will be fired! – Florenz Ziegfeld And no Ziegfeld girl ever did as she made her way down the gala stairways of the Ziegfeld Follies in some of the most astonishing spectacles the American theatergoing public ever witnessed. When Florenz Ziegfeld started in theater, it was flea circus, operetta and sideshow all rolled into one. When he left it, the glamorous world of "show-biz" had been created. Though many know him as the man who "glorified the American girl," his first real star attraction was the bodybuilder Eugen Sandow, who flexed his muscles and thrilled the society matrons who came backstage to squeeze his biceps. His lesson learned with Sandow, Ziegfeld went on to present Anna Held, the naughty French sensation, who became the first Mrs. Ziegfeld. He was one of the first impresarios to mix headliners of different ethnic backgrounds, and literally the earliest proponent of mixed-race casting. The stars he showcased and, in some cases, created have become legends: Billie Burke (who also became his wife), elfin Marilyn Miller, cowboy Will Rogers, Bert Williams, W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor and, last but not least, neighborhood diva Fanny Brice. A man of voracious sexual appetites when it came to beautiful women, Ziegfeld knew what he wanted and what others would want as well. From that passion, the Ziegfeld Girl was born. Elaborately bejeweled, they wore little more than a smile as they glided through eye-popping tableaux that were the highlight of the Follies, presented almost every year from 1907 to 1931. Ziegfeld's reputation and power, however, went beyond the stage of the Follies as he produced a number of other musicals, among them the ground-breaking Show Boat. In Ziegfeld: The Man Who Created Show Business, Ethan Mordden recreates the lost world of the Follies, a place of long-vanished beauty masterminded by one of the most inventive, ruthless, street-smart and exacting men ever to fill a theatre on the Great White Way : Florenz Ziegfeld.