Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields

Louvish, Simon

ISBN 10: 0393318400 / ISBN 13: 9780393318401

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999

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"[Fields] was his own greatest creation, and in Louvish, this complicated artist has finally found the biographer he deserves." ? Malcolm Jones, Jr., NewsweekMan on the Flying Trapeze is the first biography in decades ? and the only accurate one ? of the beloved cinematic curmudgeon and inimitable comic genius W. C. Fields. Simon Louvish brilliantly sifts through evidence of Fields's own self-creation to illuminate the vaudeville world from which Fields sprang and his struggles with studios and censors to make his hilarious films-in the process confirming suspicions (yes, he did drink) and confounding them (he doted on his grandchildren). "One of the best movie biographies to come along in quite some time. . . . [A] book to cherish." ? Film Review "[Man on the Flying Trapeze] nicely regales us with many vaudevillian stories. . . . Louvish does a heroic job." ? Katharine Whittemore, New York Times Book Review "A rapturous, giddy, and irrepressible book. . . . Let us be clear: this is a delight, a marvel of research . . . and a superb argument for the case that William Claude Dukenfield was, and is, the greatest comic the movies have given us." ? David Thomson "At last 'the Great Man' (as Fields called himself, accurately) has a great biography." ? Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Illustrated

Product Description: A biography of cinematic curmudgeon and inimitable comic, W.C. Fields. Simon Louvish sifts through the evidence of W.C. Field's own self-creation to illuminate the vaudeville world from which Fields sprang and his struggles with studios and censors to make his hilarious films - in the process both confirming suspicions (yes, he did drink) and confounding them (he doted on his grandchildren).

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Titolo: Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and ...
Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company
Data di pubblicazione: 1999
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
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