#wc fields

[citizenscreen]

The great W. C. Fields was #botd in 1880.

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”

[oldshowbiz]

1966.

The W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band released this single on Hanna Barbera Records a few months before they played the Griffith Park Human Be-In.

The Human Be-In was held exactly 57 years ago today

[mudwerks]

(via Nos infréquentables | POUR 15 MINUTES D'AMOUR)

WC Fields, Dorothy Lamour, Martha Raye et Shirley Ross - The Big Broadcast of 1938 

[jhsharman]

old fashioned

Shift on a decade and a half and figure how far forward we go on "old fashioned things". They bring in some campaign buttons for 1940 and 1952, and an old television. Funny that we still have Mickey Mouse. Kind of.

Is there a subtle shift with "rules" getting downgraded to "ideas"?

[vintage-tech]

A poster for a 1940 movie with a funny by today's standards title ("dick" = detective or guard) featuring W.C. Fields, a whole bunch of people that are not remembered, and the fourth Stooge.

[frenchcurious]

Affiche suédoise du film de Norman Z. McLeod, ''It's a Gift'' (''Une riche affaire'', Paramount, 1934). - Source Heritage Auctions.

[thursdaymurderbub]

The Pirates' Den night club, Hollywood 1940s

[megan-the-artoonist]

Egbert P. Waddlefoot makes another appearance to celebrate WC Fields’ birthday.

[waiting-eyez]

You can't cheat an honest man.

(W.C. Fields)

[dailylooneys]

Cracked Ice

(1938, Frank Tashlin)

[fashioninpaper]

WC Fields ftom Tom Tierney’s book “Thirty from the Thirties”

[citizenscreen]

Two of my favorite funny people, W.C. Fields and Gracie Allen. They are pictured in Edward Sutherland’s INTERNATIONAL HOUSE (1933).

[oldshowbiz]

Coo Coo for W.C. Fields Puffs

[homocinematicus]

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break 1941 WC Fields

[buckrogersinthe20thcentury]

[thefrankshow]

The Fatal Glass Of Coke