The Librarian of Congress, Dr. James Billington, says, “W.C. Fields is the Icon of American Culture and Humor.”
Adam McKay, Director of Anchorman 2, December 2013: “You’re literally naming one of my all-time favorites.” Read more testimonials...
DAVID LYNCH on W.C. FIELDS
In interviews through the years, David Lynch always listed W.C. Fields as his favorite comedy actor and It’s A Gift as one of his favorite films. Citing W.C. Fields portrait of the human condition and exaggerating what we all witness as the social reality worthy of criticism and empathy.
Jay Weissberg of Variety International and Pordenone Silent Film Festival has said, "I'm not surprised that It's a Gift was one of Lynch's favorite films -- it remains one of the most deliriously anarchic and freeing movies ever made. I'd be surprised if it wasn't one of Buñuel's favorites as well. If only we had a popular artist who could similarly skewer bourgeois morals and self-serving power in the same way." (January 2025)
“The Juggling Scene” from The Old Fashioned Way (1934).
“The Timeless Truth” from You Can’t Cheat An Honest Man (1939).
“Honest John” from Six of a Kind (1934).
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Home Movie from the Broadway theatre to home in Great Neck, NY, 1920's.
Long before the Tony Award winning The Book of Mormon, there was The Mormon’s Prayers on Broadway. Never before in the history of Broadway did a star’s name appear above the producer’s. But in 1928, on the marquee W.C. Fields' name appeared above Earl Carroll’s Vanities.
The Mormon’s Prayers (1928).
W.C. Fields respected the works of Charles Dickens so much that he did not change or ad lib any words in The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger.
“Now and Forever” from David Copperfield (1935).
Trailer for David Copperfield (1935).
W.C. Fields' third film on the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, It's a Gift.
“Aww, That's Awful” from It's a Gift (1934).
“Out on the Porch” from It's a Gift (1934).
Golfing great Bobby Jones consoling W.C. Fields on his poor golf swing.
“A Veritable Tiger” from The Golf Specialist (1930).
“The Sheriff Tends Bar” from My Little Chickadee (1940).