Man on the Flying Trapeze the Life and Times of W. C. Fields
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
- Publish date: 03/01/1999
Description:
Man 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).
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