A W.C. Fields Finding Aid

We’ve long since passed 100 posts on the topic of William Claude Dukenfeld, a.k.a. W.C. Fields (1880-1946) on this blog and so we thought we’d mark his birthday (January 29) with this new handy finding aid to help you navigate them. And if you prefer to browse, the W.C. Fields section of Travalanche is here. Below, some of the key posts:

Main Biographical Post (Including Vaudeville Origins)

W.C. Fields and Games (How He Evolved from a Juggler to a Comedian)

Fields Joins the Follies (1915)

Poppy (1923): Fields Comes Into His Own

W.C. Fields and Broadway

The Movies:

The Five Film Careers of W.C. Fields

Fields in Silent Films

The Golf Specialist (1930)

The Dentist (1930)

The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)

The Pharmacist (1933)

The Barber Shop (1933)

Million Dollar Legs (1932)

If I Had a Million (1932)

International House (1933)

Tillie and Gus (1933)

Alice in Wonderland (1933)

Six of a Kind (1934)

You’re Telling Me (1934)

The Old Fashioned Way (1934)

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)

It‘s a Gift (1934)

David Copperfield (1935)

Mississippi (1935)

Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)

Poppy (1936)

The Big Broadcast of 1938

You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

My Little Chickadee (1940)

The Bank Dick (1940)

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)

Tales of Manhattan (1942)

Follow the Boys (1944)

Song of the Open Road (1944)

Sensations of 1945

Supporting Players and Co-stars:

Shorty Blanche

Bill Wolfe

Elise Cavanna

Jan Duggan

Kathleen Howard

Baby LeRoy

Franklin Pangborn

Alison Skipworth

Grady Sutton

Personal Life:

On Bessie Poole

Fields’ Illegitimate Son

Fay Adler

On Carlotta Monti

Essays:

Unfilmed Fields: 20 Movies W.C. Might Have Made But Didn’t

Dreams of Fields Team-Ups That Never Were

W.C. Fields as Thespian

W.C. Fields and Radio

Of Flim Flam and Falstaff: W.C. Fields as Fictional Character

The Truth About W.C. Fields and Philadelphia

W.C. Fields as Libertarian

The Death of W.C. Fields

W.C. Fields and Race

On W.C. Frito

And many more! Again, browse the entire W.C. Fields section of Travalanche here.