Long before his voice became a signature sound of box office comedies in the 1930s and early 1940s, W. C. Fields was stealing scenes in silent films. A screening of "Sally of the Sawdust," a 1925 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It seems like back in the ‘60s and ‘70s, everybody on TV had a W.C. Fields impersonation. As a kid, I only knew the imitations and not how the already deceased comedian really ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Ray Bradbury has the most amazing dreams. “I write screenplays,’ he says ...

Tillie and Gus (Paramount). Tillie (Alison Skipworth) is the dilapidated proprietress of a waterfront gambling house in China. Gus (W. C. Fields) is a down-at-heels Alaskan gambler, who has just ...

GODFREY DANIEL! MOTHer of pearl! Simon Louvish wants to set the record straight on the life of W. C. Fields. In Man on the Flying Trapeze (564 pages. Norton. $29.95), Fields's latest biographer starts ...

On my week off last month, I fulfilled a longtime wish by visiting two repertory movie houses in L.A., both of them owned by Quentin Tarantino: the New Beverly in the Fairfax District and the Vista ...