Mae West: W.C. Fields

Mmm, that birthday is coming up fast, my little chickadee!
• • William Claude Dukenfield was the birth name of actor W.C. Fields [29 January 1880 - - 25 December 1946]. Born in Darby, Pennsylvania at the end of January, the vaudevillian toured the country and began making "flickers" in 1915. That year the comedian made his first silent: "His Lordship's Dilemma."
• • Like MAE WEST, Fields wrote several of his own screenplays. He appeared in over three dozen movies. Near the end of his career, he collaborated with his co-star Mae West on the script of "My Little Chickadee" [1940]. Fields took the role of Cuthbert J. Twillie. Mae West played Flower Belle Lee. Edward F. Cline directed.
• • After years of immoderate drinking, W.C. Fields died on Christmas Day 1946 in Pasadena, California of a stomach hemorrhage.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West
• • Drawing: Mae West • • 1940 poster • •
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