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Let's all add Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) as the next W.C. Fields Film to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. A portrait of family life in all its travails in W.C. Fields inimitable sweetness and gentleness, and keen insights into the human condition. 

You can nominate up to 50 films. Another suggestion for nomination is the 1935 version of David Copperfield with W.C. Fields as Micawber. It is opined Charles Dickens must have had W.C. Fields in mind for this role.

YOU'RE TELLING ME (1934) the talking version of 'So’s Your Old Man' on the National Film Registry since 2008.  Plus, nominate your favorite W.C. Fields FILMS! 

DAVID COPPERFIELD (1935) with W.C. Fields as Wilkins Micawber. My dear father, W. Claude Fields, Jr., and I met George Cukor, Director of 'David Copperfield', who told us that W.C. Fields was the "nicest sweetest person he has ever worked with". Cukor has said he did not have to direct W.C. Fields for he "inhabited Micawber". 

W.C. Fields as Wilkins Micawber in David Copperfield (1935 version)

Current W.C. Fields films on National Film Registry - 'The Bank Dick' (1992); 'So's Your Old Man' (2008); 'It's A Gift' (2012).