Arthur Frank Wertheim's groundbreaking book is the first to examine W.C. Fields' twelve silent movies and how they influenced his later career in sound films. T

W.C. Fields was at the top among comedians during Hollywood's Golden Era of the 1930s and 1940s and has since remained a comic icon. Despite his character's mis

First in vaudeville, then in silent films, the comic art of W. C. Fields was his unique ability, antic imagination with masterful pantomime. With the coming of