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W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway stage to the screen[electronic resource] :becoming a character comedian /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	791.43028092
書名/作者:	W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway stage to the screen : becoming a character comedian // by Arthur Frank Wertheim.
作者:	Wertheim, Arthur Frank.
出版者:	New York : : Palgrave Macmillan US :, 2016.
面頁冊數:	xxii, 270 p. : : ill., digital ;; 22 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
標題:	Comedians - Biography. - United States
標題:	Entertainers - Biography. - United States
標題:	Theater - Biography. - New York (State)
標題:	Motion pictures - United States.
標題:	Cultural and Media Studies.
標題:	Theatre History.
標題:	Film History.
標題:	American Culture.
標題:	American Cinema.
ISBN:	9781349949861
ISBN:	9781349949854
內容註:	Introduction -- Prologue. Becoming a Character Comedian -- Part I. 1915 - A Momentous Year -- 1. Confronting Florenz Ziegfeld -- 2. Pool Sharks and His Lordship's Dilemma -- Part II. The Beleagered Sportsman -- 3. Spoofing Croquet -- 4. Lampooning Tennis -- 5. The Frustrated Duffer -- Part III. Entr'actes -- 6. The Three Musketeers -- 7. Bessie and Hattie -- 8. Fields's Well Never Went Dry -- 9. From the Midnight Frolic to the Front Lines -- Part IV. Lampooning the Dysfuntional Family -- 10. The Flivertons -- 11. The Breakup with Ziegfeld -- Part V. Broadway Stardom -- 12. Oh, what a Scandal! -- 13. "Confidence Man of the Ages" -- 14. Two Legendary Iconolasts Converge -- 15. The Comic Supplement -- 16. A Follies Farewell -- Epilogue. Fields Encounters D. W. Griffith -- Appendix. The Ziegfeld Mystique.
摘要、提要註:	This book reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway's most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies. As the first biography to use the recently opened Fields Papers at the Motion Picture Academy, the book explores how Fields years as a Follies entertainer portraying a beleaguered husband and a captivating conman became a landmark turning point in his career, leading to his fame as a masterful film comedian. The book also untangles a web of mysteries about Fields's turbulent private life, from the heartrending stories about the tragic relationship with his calculating wife who refused to divorce him, to his estranged son controlled by his mother, to the seven-year extra-marital affair with a chorus girl that led to the birth of an unwanted child. This electrifying saga illuminates a complex dual personality, whirling from tenderness to brusqueness, who endured so much anguish in order to bring the gift of laughter to millions. Although vilified by Ziegfeld and assailed by demons, Fields survived the cutthroat rigors of Broadway show biz to become a legendary American iconoclast and cultural icon.
電子資源:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94986-1

W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway stage to the screen[electronic resource] :becoming a character comedian /
Wertheim, Arthur Frank.

W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway stage to the screenbecoming a character comedian /[electronic resource] :by Arthur Frank Wertheim. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2016. - xxii, 270 p. :ill., digital ;22 cm. - Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history. - Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history..

Introduction -- Prologue. Becoming a Character Comedian -- Part I. 1915 - A Momentous Year -- 1. Confronting Florenz Ziegfeld -- 2. Pool Sharks and His Lordship's Dilemma -- Part II. The Beleagered Sportsman -- 3. Spoofing Croquet -- 4. Lampooning Tennis -- 5. The Frustrated Duffer -- Part III. Entr'actes -- 6. The Three Musketeers -- 7. Bessie and Hattie -- 8. Fields's Well Never Went Dry -- 9. From the Midnight Frolic to the Front Lines -- Part IV. Lampooning the Dysfuntional Family -- 10. The Flivertons -- 11. The Breakup with Ziegfeld -- Part V. Broadway Stardom -- 12. Oh, what a Scandal! -- 13. "Confidence Man of the Ages" -- 14. Two Legendary Iconolasts Converge -- 15. The Comic Supplement -- 16. A Follies Farewell -- Epilogue. Fields Encounters D. W. Griffith -- Appendix. The Ziegfeld Mystique.

This book reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway's most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies. As the first biography to use the recently opened Fields Papers at the Motion Picture Academy, the book explores how Fields years as a Follies entertainer portraying a beleaguered husband and a captivating conman became a landmark turning point in his career, leading to his fame as a masterful film comedian. The book also untangles a web of mysteries about Fields's turbulent private life, from the heartrending stories about the tragic relationship with his calculating wife who refused to divorce him, to his estranged son controlled by his mother, to the seven-year extra-marital affair with a chorus girl that led to the birth of an unwanted child. This electrifying saga illuminates a complex dual personality, whirling from tenderness to brusqueness, who endured so much anguish in order to bring the gift of laughter to millions. Although vilified by Ziegfeld and assailed by demons, Fields survived the cutthroat rigors of Broadway show biz to become a legendary American iconoclast and cultural icon.

ISBN: 9781349949861

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-349-94986-1doiSubjects--Personal Names:

688790
Fields, W. C.
1880-1946.Subjects--Corporate Names:

688791
Ziegfeld Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects--Topical Terms:

391836
Comedians
--United States--Biography.

LC Class. No.: PN2287.F45 / W47 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43028092

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