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Man on the Flying Trapeze
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Man on the Flying Trapeze is the first biography in decades -- and the only accurate one -- of the beloved cinematic curmudgeon and inimitable comic genius W. C. Fields. Simon Louvish brilliantly sifts through evidence of Fields's own self-creation to illuminate the vaudeville world from which Fields sprang and his struggles with studios and censors to make his hilarious films-in the process confirming suspicions (yes, he did drink) and confounding them (he doted on his grandchildren). One of t…
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- Author: Simon Louvish
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-10: 0393318400
- ISBN-13: 9780393318401
- Format: 15.6 x 23.4 x 3.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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Man on the Flying Trapeze is the first biography in decades -- and the only accurate one -- of the beloved cinematic curmudgeon and inimitable comic genius W. C. Fields. Simon Louvish brilliantly sifts through evidence of Fields's own self-creation to illuminate the vaudeville world from which Fields sprang and his struggles with studios and censors to make his hilarious films-in the process confirming suspicions (yes, he did drink) and confounding them (he doted on his grandchildren). One of the best movie biographies to come along in quite some time. . . . [A] book to cherish.--Film Review [Man on the Flying Trapeze] nicely regales us with many vaudevillian stories. . . . Louvish does a heroic job.--Katharine Whittemore, New York Times Book Review A rapturous, giddy, and irrepressible book. . . . Let us be clear: this is a delight, a marvel of research . . . and a superb argument for the case that William Claude Dukenfield was, and is, the greatest comic the movies have given us.--David Thomson At last 'the Great Man' (as Fields called himself, accurately) has a great biography.--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
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- Author: Simon Louvish
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-10: 0393318400
- ISBN-13: 9780393318401
- Format: 15.6 x 23.4 x 3.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
Man on the Flying Trapeze is the first biography in decades -- and the only accurate one -- of the beloved cinematic curmudgeon and inimitable comic genius W. C. Fields. Simon Louvish brilliantly sifts through evidence of Fields's own self-creation to illuminate the vaudeville world from which Fields sprang and his struggles with studios and censors to make his hilarious films-in the process confirming suspicions (yes, he did drink) and confounding them (he doted on his grandchildren). One of the best movie biographies to come along in quite some time. . . . [A] book to cherish.--Film Review [Man on the Flying Trapeze] nicely regales us with many vaudevillian stories. . . . Louvish does a heroic job.--Katharine Whittemore, New York Times Book Review A rapturous, giddy, and irrepressible book. . . . Let us be clear: this is a delight, a marvel of research . . . and a superb argument for the case that William Claude Dukenfield was, and is, the greatest comic the movies have given us.--David Thomson At last 'the Great Man' (as Fields called himself, accurately) has a great biography.--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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