20th Century Fox was one of the world's biggest movie studios in the '30s and '40s, with an impressive roster including some...
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2000
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In the early years of cinema, nothing kept audiences in stitches quite like a good dose of physical comedy -- affectionately...
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1998
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He was born William Claude Dukenfield, but to the world for over thirty years he was known as W.C. Fields, star of the...
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1998
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This W.C. Fields collection includes The Dentist and a cartoon. Also features a trailer from My Little Chickadee. ~ Rovi...
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1990
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This celebration of 75 years with W.C. Fields features his first movie and clips from famous films and footage of him at...
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1990
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This unique video features W.C. Fields warning people of the pitfalls of drinking! Includes the short...
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1990
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1990
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The life and career of W.C. Fields is documented in this film, which features a number of interesting film clips. ~ Iotis...
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1986
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1985
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This represents MGM's 1976 sequel to its enormously successful compilation film That's Entertainment (1974). In lieu of the...
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1976
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Milton Berle hosts this 1974 program, a look back at comedy appearances on his variety show plus material from contemporary...
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1974
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This compilation film is one of the few Robert Youngson productions to incorporate sound as well as silent excerpts. All the...
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1964
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1963
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Down Memory Lane is a pastiche film comprised of old comedy footage from the Mack Sennett studios. The vintage clips are tied...
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1949
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A beautiful child (14-year-old Jane Powell in her feature film debut) star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises...
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Himself
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1944
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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1944
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Originally titled simply Sensations, this musical comedy was the final starring film for dancer Eleanor Powell and the final...
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1944
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1943
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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The Great Man
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1941
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The once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Mae West and W.C. Fields in My Little Chickadee had the potential for comic greatness: what...
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Screenwriter, Cuthbert J. Twillie
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1940
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W.C. Fields plays Egbert Souse, a bibulous denizen of Lompoc who supports his family by winning radio contests. When a...
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Screenwriter, Egbert Sousé
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1940
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In his starring film for Universal Pictures, W.C. Fields plays circus manager and all-around flim flam man Larson E....
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Screenwriter, Larson E. Whipsnade
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1939
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Paramount's final "Big Broadcast" musical had perhaps the least exciting musical lineup of the series (Tito Guizar,...
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S.B. Bellows/T. Frothingill Bellows
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1937
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Prof. Eustace P. McGargle
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1936
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David Copperfield was MGM's major Christmas release for its 1934-1935 season and also the first of producer...
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Micawber
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1935
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In this comedy with musical numbers set in the Old South, Bing Crosby plays a singer (talk about a casting stretch!) from...
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Commodore Orlando Jackson
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1935
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W.C. Fields plays Ambrose Wolfinger, the henpecked husband to end all henpecked husbands. A widower, Ambrose married a second...
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Ambrose Wolfinger
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1935
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Mr. C. Ellsworth Stubbins
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1934
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Sheriff "Honest John" Hoxley
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1934
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W.C. Fields plays the Great McGonigle, the manipulative manager of a large 19th century theatrical troupe. Notorious for...
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Great McGonigle
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1934
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W.C. Fields stars in a remake of his silent comedy So's Your Old Man. Fields plays Sam Bisbee, an erstwhile inventor who is...
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Sam Bisbee
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1934
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W.C. Fields is in fine fettle as small-town grocer Harold Bissonette (pronounced Biss-o-NAY). Harold dreams of becoming a...
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Screenwriter, Harold Bissonette
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1934
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This star-laden version of Lewis Carroll's novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll's sequel, Through the...
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1933
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This collection features three short films from the 1930s featuring W.C. Fields, including The Fatal Glass of Beer, The Golf...
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1933
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Hollywood responded to the exigencies of the Depression with such glorious nonsense as International House. The plot is...
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Prof. Quail
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1933
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Augustus Q. Winterbottom
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1933
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1933
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1933
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The short comedy The Fatal Glass of Beer stars the legendary W.C. Fields as Mr. Snavely, a prospector who is awaiting the...
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Screenwriter, Mr. Snavely
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1933
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Rollo La Rue
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1932
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"Klopstokia: A Far-Away Country. Chief Exports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Imports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Inhabitants: Goats and...
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President of Klopstokia
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1932
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W.C. Fields stars as the subject of this classic comedy short, which he also wrote the screenplay for. The dentist is a...
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Screenwriter, Dentist
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1932
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This comedy shows a day in the life of a hapless pharmacist (W.C. Fields). Browbeaten at home by a domineering wife and a...
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1932
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In this musical comedy, Fred Von Wellingen (Ben Lyon), the scion of a wealthy German family, has fallen in love with Lia...
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Bela Toerrek, Lia's Father
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1931
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A Flask of Fields consists of three short subjects starring the inimitable W.C. Fields. All three will be familiar to Fields...
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1930
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Richard Whitehead
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1928
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Ringmaster
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1928
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Although the silent W.C. Fields vehicle Two Flaming Youths no longer exists, a surviving script (titled Side Show) offers a...
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J.G. "Gabby" Gilfoil
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1927
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Elmer Finch
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1927
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Pa Potter
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1927
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W.C. Fields' It's the Old Army Game is an expansion on four Fields stage skits, originally performed in the Broadway revue...
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Eimer Prettywillie
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1926
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Based on Mr. Bisbee's Princess, a story by Julian Street, So's Your Old Man was the first of two felicitous collaborations...
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Samuel Bisbee
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1926
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Her Father
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1925
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Pioneering filmmaker D.W. Griffith directed W.C. Fields in his first starring role in this silent comedy. When Mary Foster...
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Prof. Eustace P. McGargle
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1925
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Newspaper magnate and movie producer William Randolph Hearst created this massive epic about the American Revolution to...
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1924
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This video double feature consists of early silent short subjects starring those two old Ziegfeld Follies colleagues,...
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1921
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W.C. Fields filmed Pool Sharks, his first film, while he was appearing in the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City. Fields and...
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Screenwriter
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1915
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