Planned to start painting again this year, but have been unwell instead. Time for that now, but back to basics first with some quick sketches to get back in swing etc. W.C.Fields #Sketch #Drawing #Illustration #FigurativePainting #ClassicArt #PortraitPainting #WcFields

Planned to start painting again this year, but have been unwell instead. Time for that now, but back to basics first with some quick sketches to get back in swing etc.
W.C.Fields #Sketch #Drawing #Illustration #FigurativePainting #ClassicArt #PortraitPainting #WcFields

A rare(?) autobiographical sketch of WC Fields

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From: Empire News
"The Umpire" - Sunday 26 February 1911

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I'd never watched all of a #WCFields movie. I watched #theBankDick and #NeverGiveaSuckeranEvenBreak tonight and I think it would be hilarious to watch either at #TCMFF!

That shark was no little chickadee! #JustSayin #WCFields

the respect of his fiance after he refuses to engage in a duel. After taking a singing job on a riverboat, he must learn to regain his confidence with the help of a quirky captain (Fields).

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Hugh Herbert and Ben Turpin.

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this Pre-Code classic is a pure entertainment.

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#WCFields So that's where #Churchill got it from. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuG6...

#comedy #film I'm firmly in my #WCFields era. Gaze upon this amazing scene from It's A Gift (none of his film titles make any damn sense) 1934. "Mr Muckle! Honey!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=y189...

Currently re-reading #JamesCurtis' biography of #WCFields. One passage jumped out at me. Describing the 9th edition of the #ZiegfeldFollies (1915), which had a filmed section about the cast attempting to make a Civil War movie, he writes, '(Ed) Wynn stood in the left-hand aisle, next to the

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps him from betting on people." ~ #WCFields

It's an all-star extravaganza you won't want to miss!

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#caption #contest #captioncontest #captionthis #captionswanted #captionsplease #captionsplus #storyprompt #storyprompts #wrongplace #wrongplacewrongtime #wronganswer #wronganswersonly #wcfields

Re-listening to my old digitization of the old two-LP set "The Best of W.C. Fields", I bought at Musicland in the local mall back in the 1970's. youtu.be/9y7olrOBmgg?... #WCFields

...helped him embody the character. I’ll add that even in Fields’ comedies, such as “The Old Fashioned Way,” where he plays the vaudevillian Old McGonigle, he showed great sensitivity in creating the lovable rascal. #WCFields #filmcomedy

Books I’ve been enjoying in January: “Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields” (1997) by Simon Louvish. #WCFields

#WCFields #botd The film that once caused a comedy producer friend of mine to go into a strange kind of panic because she didn't understand why getting a bucket full of fake snow thrown in your face every time you opened the door was funny. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMDs...

Black and white sketch of W.C. Fields

Happy birthday W.C. Fields #penandink #penandinksketches #blackandwhite #art #wcfields #nevergiveasuckeranevenbreak #mylittlechickadee #vaudeville

Born this day in 1880 in Darby, Pennsylvania, William Claude Dukenfield.

Born this day in 1880 in Darby, Pennsylvania, William Claude Dukenfield.
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Remembering W.C. Fields, born in Pasadena, California, on this day in 1880.
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HAT JUGGLER AND FUTURE MAE WEST TORMENTOR 💙📽️🎭📻 #wcfields

#WCFields 🎬💙

Curmudgeons Day - Worldwide Weird Holidays Curmudgeons Day - January 29, 1880 - birth of W.C. Fields - We have your wacky excuse to celebrate at Worldwide Weird Holidays.

Curmudgeons Day celebrates the birth in 1880 of comedian, writer, drinker, and self-professed curmudgeon W.C. Fields. #curmudgeonsday #wcfields #funholiday #weirdholiday #worldwideweirdholidays www.worldwideweirdholidays.com/curmudgeons-...

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#onthisday #onthisdate #otd January 29, 1880 #actor #comedian #wcfields was born. On this special #podcast listen to a #goldenage of #radio #oldtimeradio #otr #audio #comedy starring W.C. Fields with #abbottandcostello #edgarbergen and #charliemccarthy rileyandkimmyshow.blogspot.com/2019/01/podc...

January 29 is the birthday of wry comic #WCFields who we #quote and back with a picture of a January #sunset here in #Fallbrook. If there’s something in this #quotograph that speaks to you, please feel free to share it with others.

#OnThisDay #Signalboost #BornOnThisDay #WCFields

👉 I mean Haven’t We all been there?

Birthday Remembrances. Today, Jan 29, 1880 – #WCFields, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1946) was born.

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"It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it."

🥃 #Comedy legend #WCFields was #BOTD 29 January 1880. #Film

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxSb...

We nicknamed our Jack Russell "Mr. Muckle" after this character! 🤣
#OTD #TDIH #January29, 1880: #HBD #WCFields! #Actors #Comedians #Jugglers #Screenwriters #FilmStars #MovieStars #OldHollywood #SilverScreen #Film #Movies #Cinema #ItWasAFakeMoustache #PeopleOnTheCoverOfSgtPepper #ComedySky #MovieSky