Slapstick Festival 2025
Wednesday 12th February to Sunday 16th February 2025, Bristol, UK
Opening 12 February with
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With Dr Harriet Fields and Andrew Kelly
Wednesday 12 February,
15:30:
Watershed, Bristol, UK
W.C.Fields in this early silent comedy he shines as the henpecked Elmer. Host Andrew Kelly will be talking live via Zoom to Dr.Harriet Fields, granddaughter of W.C Fields.
Rare insights into W.C. Fields by granddaughter Dr. Harriet Fields, Patron Slapstick Festival
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(https://slapstick.org.uk/w-c-fields-global-stage-to-silent-and-talking-films-and-radio/)
or the picture below for more information.
(https://slapstick.org.uk/w-c-fields-global-stage-to-silent-and-talking-films-and-radio/)
or the picture below for more information.
W.C. FIELDS – Global Stage to Silent and Talking
Films and Radio
Films and Radio
We cannot separate W.C. Fields silent films from the totality of his career.
Achieving great success on the stage in nearly every continent, combining stage
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Achieving great success on the stage in nearly every continent, combining stage
CLICK on this link (https://slapstick.org.uk) for more information.
Cast of Running Wild, 1927, Astoria Studios, Queens, NYC
Front row seated, Gregory La Cava, Mary Brian, W.C. FIELDS
W.C. FIELDS in 'So's Your Old Man' - 2nd WCF film in National Film Registry of the Library of Congress
Saturday Nov. 16, 7: 30pm, Preservation Hall, Noblesville, Indiana
1274 Logan St.; Phone: 317-426-1672; Tickets 10$ at Door.
Eric Grayson's Vintage Movie Series sponsored by Noblesville Cultural Arts Commission and the Lacy Arts Building.
Special Guest: Dr. Harriet Fields, WCF's only granddaughter
Live Piano score by Roger Lipppincott
The deadline for the Library of Congress
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.
Nomination form on www.wcfields.com scroll to left and down and on https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/nominate/
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).
TCM airs throughout March 2024, Introduction to W.C. FIELDS STAR OF THE MONTH from June 2005 narrated by
Monty Python's John Cleese.
TCM Star of the Month: W.C. Fields https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl8Qlu4l0YM
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Happy St. Patrick's Day 2024!
Timeless cross-cultural insights for St. Patrick's Day. Will Eno, award-winning playwright, describes W.C. Fields as a "quiet revolutionary". All done with a profound insight and compassion for the human condition, knowing truth through Humor helps Heal. As W.C. Fields said, "If I can make them laugh and through that laughter makes this old world seem just a little brighter, then I am satisfied." An expression of love.
On St. Patrick's Day enjoy W.C. Fields’ letter from mythical "niece Maggie" referring to "Uncle Bill's" letter to "Aunt Bridget" in Ireland.
And, letter to long time business friend, Bill Grady, referring to "Aunt Maggie". W.C. Fields kept the thread going to be included in a possible radio script.
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