Welcome to the Timelessness of W.C. Fields' Art & Humor.
There is no instance in the human condition we cannot find some solace in the humor of W.C. Fields.
W.C. Fields speaks truth to authority with dignity, respect, and kindness. He fights for the underdog, the common person. Bottom line, W.C. Fields made and makes the world laugh—the best medicine of all.
A Celebration of COMIC GENIUS W.C. FIELDS at The National Arts Club in historic Gramercy Park, New York City, June 27 at 8 p.m. Including film clips and discussion panel with Dick Cavett entertainment icon, Dr Harriet Fields granddaughter, and Rob King film professor at Columbia University with expertise in early film and comedy. Special book signing after, for Dick Cavett’s foreword to W.C. Fields own Fields for President, re-issue 2016.
Program Agenda
Introductions
Gary Shapiro, Co-Chair of The National Arts Club Film Committee
Background context – Dr. Harriet Fields
W.C. FIELDS' FILM CLIPS with Panelists' Discussion 
Old Fashioned Way – Juggling scene Man on the Flying Trapeze
Panel Discussion It’s A Gift Fatal Glass of Beer The Dentist
Panel Discussion The Pharmacist You're Telling Me
Panel Discussion Six of a Kind David Copperfield
Panel Discussion
Q&A
BOOK SIGNING with DICK CAVETT
Fields for President by W.C. Fields with foreword by DICK CAVETT (2016)
See the press release and program leaflet for panelists' bios and information about The National Arts Club. Sorry, this event is currently AT CAPACITY. Please check back for post-event news.
We are so proud that our grandfather, W.C. Fields, is among the international icons on the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band iconic, 1967 album cover. He is found in the top row, 6th from left. “There were those who refused to be on there, saying, ‘I'm not a lonely heart,’ or, ‘I don't want to be on there.’ Letters had to go out to get permission from everybody, and some people did turn us down.” GEORGE, www.thebeatles.com
[Click on the album cover to enlarge.]
“Sgt. Pepper's: The greatest album of all time turns 50”
“The front cover was unique and expensive, featuring an array of the Beatles idols, mostly Americans, including W. C. Fields, Dion, Dylan, Brando, Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe, Laurel & Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe and Mae West. Other figures, such as Gandhi, Oscar Wilde or Lewis Carroll, had enduring influences on the Beatles' social and artistic developments.” Read more by Alexander E. Hooke...
“The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ at 50: Still Full of Joy and Whimsy”
“They rejected any generation gap. The album cover set the 1967 Beatles, with their mustaches and shiny mock band uniforms, alongside their suited, mop-topped pop-star wax statues—so recent, yet so distant—and cultural figures like Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sonny Liston and W. C. Fields, a rightful claim to adult significance. But the LP was also packaged with cardboard cutouts—a mustache, military stripes—like something for children. While the Summer of Love nurtured hippie dreams of creating a new world, the Beatles reminded listeners of how entrenched the old one was, and how comforting.” Read more by Jon Pareles...
Re-issued in French Fields Président!
with new foreword by Pierre Etaix.
“...this parody....blasts at all with a caustic and stripping modern humor...”
Fields for President
with new foreword by Dick Cavett.
W.C. Fields announces his candidacy for our nation's highest office.
W.C. Fields By Himself
with new foreword by Conan O'Brien.
A unique portrait of “the Great One”.
W.C. Fields:
Comedy Essentials Collection
available here.
Universal releases 18 of his best feature-length comedies.
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Her Majesty Love
available here.
The Warner Archive releases on January 19, 2016 W.C. Fields in his first sound feature.
W.C. Fields Centennial Celebration in Film at the Magic Castle, September 19, 2015.
Allen A. Fields and Ronald J. Fields, grandsons, at the W.C. Fields Centennial in Film Celebration at the Magic Castle, Hollywood, September 19, 2015, site of the original Pool Table on loan from the W.C. Fields Family.
W.C. Fields Centennial Celebration at the New Amsterdam, June 22, 2015.
One hundred years and one day from our grandfather's opening and starring in the Ziegfeld Follies, June 21, 1915, W.C. Fields Centennial Celebration at the New Amsterdam, June 22, 2015. “...different views of the ‘W.C. Fields Centennial Celebration’ are visually arresting and engaging and fun. Looks like an infectious good time.” Steve Friedman, event photographer.
See the recorded event available on YouTube...
“The Real Transcript of W.C. Fields Murder Trial (of a Canary), 1928.”
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