Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields
Editorial Reviews
New York Times Book Review, Katharine Whittemore
Louvish does a heroic job of filling in Fields's life.
The Atlantic Monthly, Phoebe-Lou Adams
Mr. Louvish, who teaches at the London International Film School, must have worked long and hard on this biography of W. C. Fields. Fields was a superb comedian, but he was also a mischievous, amusing, and habitual liar. The hard-drinking curmudgeon who hated babies, kicked dogs, and stashed money in unlikely places under fantastic aliases was a deliberate invention, except for the drinking. Fields's biographer is faced with the problem of replacing entertaining fantasy with mere fact, and Mr. Louvish surmounts it very well indeed, with histories of vaudeville (Fields began as a juggler), of the extravagancies of Ziegfeld Follies, and of the uncertainties of early movie-making, while enlivening his text with effective quotations and sketches of everyone concerned--a gallery of great clowns. The reader gets a sound view of Fields and of his world.
Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields
Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields,Simon Louvish,W W Norton & Co Inc,0393041271,Biography,Biography & Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Comedians,Entertainment & Performing Arts - General,Individual Movie Actors And Actresses,Motion picture actors and actresses,United States,Fields, W. C,Films, cinema
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