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Posted on October 23, 2009 | Leave a comment

Fields, Brooks

Fields and Louise Brooks in It’s the Old Army Game. Eddie Sutherland. 1926.

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Posted on July 31, 2009 | Leave a comment

W. C. Fields trying to relax at home circa 1935. Above, Claude, dressed better than I think I’ve ever seen him, flexes his specs. Below, he runs his daily letters by his dictaphone.

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Posted on May 16, 2009 | Leave a comment

Fields the tourist. Paris, circa 1909-11.

Rue Lafayette.

Horse-drawn double-decker trolley on the Boulevard des Italiens, passing the Folies Bergère where Fields was starring.

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Posted on April 9, 2009 | Leave a comment

(above) Fields and son. c. 1909.

“letter from Maggie” (fragmentary script. January 10, 1940.)

Mr. Bill Grady
9877 Carmelita Ave.
Beverly Hills, Calif.

Dear Catholic:
I am sending you a little shillaly so whenever you get out of line Margaret can tap you on the sconce with it. Protestants are the best people.

I have purposely left the price tag on the shillaly so that you will not use it for firewood.
Love and kisses from

Your Uncle Willie

P.S. Your Aunt Maggie from Ireland, who has informed me that more Protestant churches have been burned to the ground, sends her love.

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Posted on March 21, 2009 | Leave a comment

W.C. Fields at age fifteen.

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