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article: W.C. Fields, Comic Genius - A Biography, by Mike Haberfelner, October 2010

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1.) Alice in Wonderland, USA 1933, directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Charlotte Henry, Richard Arlen, Roscoe Ates, William Austin, Gary Cooper, Leon Errol, Louise Fazenda, W.C. Fields, Alec B.Francis, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Cary Grant, Lillian Harmer, Raymond Hatton, Sterling Holloway, Edward Everett Horton, Charles Ruggles, Jackie Searl, Jack Oakie, Roscoe Karns, Baby LeRoy, Mae Marsh, Polly Moran, Edna May Oliver, May Robson, Alison Skipworth, Ned Sparks, Ford Sterling

2.) The Bank Dick, USA 1940, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio, Jessie Ralph, Franklin Pangborn, Shemp Howard, Dick Purcell, Grady Sutton, Russell Hicks, Pierre Watkin, Al Hill, George Moran, Bill Wolfe, Jack Norton, Pat West, Reed Hadley, Heather Wilde, Harlan Briggs, William Alston, written by Mahatma Kane Jeeves (= W.C. Fields), music by Frank Skinner

3.) The Big Broadcast of 1938, USA 1938, directed by Mitchell Leisen, starring W.C. Fields, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Shirley Ross, Leif Erickson, Martha Raye, Lynne Overman, Ben Blue, Patricia Wilder, Grace Bradley, Rufe Davis, Lionel Pape, Dorothy Howe (= Virginia Vale), Russell Hicks, Kirsten Flagstad, Wilfrid Pelletier, Tito Guízar, Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra, Richard Denning, Leonid Kinskey, Lal Chand Mehra, Edgar Norton

4.) David Copperfield, USA 1935, directed by George Cukor, starring Frank Lawton, Freddie Bartholomew, W.C. Fields, Roland Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lionel Barrymore, Jessie Ralph, Madge Evans, Basil Rathbone, Violet Kemble Cooper, Edna May Oliver, Lennox Pawle, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth Allan, Hugh Williams, Elsa Lanchester, Jean Cadell, Una O'Connor, John Buckler, Ivan F. Simpson, Herbert Mundin, Fay Chaldecott, Marilyn Knowlden, Florine McKinney, Harry Beresford, Mabel Colcord, Renee Gadd, Hugh Walpole

5.) The Dentist, USA 1932, directed by Leslie Pearce, starring W.C. Fields, Marjorie Kane, Arnold Gray, Dorothy Granger, Elise Cavanna, Zedna Farley, written by W.C. Fields

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6.) The Fatal Glass of Beer, USA 1933, directed by Clyde Bruckman, starring W.C. Fields, Rosemary Theby, George Chandler, Richard Cramer, George Moran, Artie Ortego, Jack Cooper, Ernie Alexander, Gordon Douglas, Marvin Loback, written by W.C. Fields, assistant director: Jean Yarbrough

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7.) Follow the Boys, USA 1944, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, starring George Raft, Vera Zorina, Jeanette MacDonald, Orson Welles, Marlene Dietrich, Dinah Shore, Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, W.C. Fields, the Andrews Sisters (= Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Patty Andrews), Artur Rubinstein, Carmen Amaya & her Company, Sophie Tucker, Delta Rhythm Boys, Leonard Gautier's Brickslayers, Ted Lewis & Orchestra, Freddie Slack & Orchestra, Charlie Spivak & Orchestra, Louis Jordan & Orchestra, Charley Grapewin, Grace McDonald, Charles Butterworth, George Macready, Elizabeth Patterson, Theodore von Eltz, Regis Toomey, Ramsay Ames, Martha O'Driscoll, Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom

8.) The Golf Specialist, USA 1930, directed by Monte Brice, starring W.C. Fields, Shirley Grey, Al Wood, John Dunsmuir, Johnny Kane, Naomi Casey, Harriet E.MacGibbon, Allan Bennett, William Black, written by W.C. Fields

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9.) If I Had a Million, USA 1932, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman Z. McLeod, James Cruze, William A. Seiter, H. Bruce Humberstone, starring Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, George Raft, Jack Oakie, Richard Bennett, Charles Ruggles, Alison Skipworth, W.C. Fields, Mary Boland, Roscoe Karns, May Robson, Wynne Gibson, Gene Raymond, Frances Dee, Lucien Littlefield, Joyce Compton, Blanche Friderici, Dewey Robinson, Margaret Seddon

10.) International House, USA 1933, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, starring Peggy Hopkins Joyce, W.C. Fields, Rudy Vallee, Stuart Erwin, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Sari Maritza, F. Chase Taylor, Budd Hulick, Cab Calloway, Bela Lugosi, Rose Marie, Franklin Pangborn, Edmund Breese, Lumsden Hare, Sterling Holloway, Lona Andre, Harrison Greene

11.) It's a Gift, USA 1934, directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol, Julian Madison, Tommy Bupp, Baby LeRoy, Tammany Young, Morgan Wallace, Charles Sellon, Josephine Whittell, T.Roy Barnes, Diana Lewis, Spencer Charters, Guy Usher, Dell Henderson, screenplay by Jack Cunningham, based on the play The Comic Supplement by W.C. Fields, J.P. McElvoy, music by John Leipold

12.) It's the Old Army Game, USA 1926, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, starring W.C. Fields, Louise Brooks, Blanche Ring, William Gaxton, Mary Foy, Mickey Bennett, Josephine Dunn, Jack Luden, George Currie, screenplay by Thomas J. Geraghty, J. Clarkson Miller, based on the play The Comic Supplement by W.C. Fields, J.P. McElvoy, adaptation by William LeBaron

13.) Man on the Flying Trapeze, USA 1935, directed by Clyde Bruckman, W.C. Fields (uncredited), starring W.C. Fields, Mary Brian, Kathleen Howard, Grady Sutton, Vera Lewis, Lucien Littlefield, Oscar Apfel, Lew Kelly, Tammany Young, Walter Brennan, Edward Gargan, James Burke, Carlotta Monti, Eddy Chandler, Michael Visaroff, Tor Johnson, Harry Ekezian, David Clyde, Mickey McMasters, Lorin Raker, Helen Dickson, Arthur Aylesworth, James Flavin, story by W.C. Fields (as Charles Bogle), Sam Hardy, screenplay by Ray Harris, Sam Hardy

14.) Million Dollar Legs, USA 1932, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Jack Oakie, W.C. Fields, Andy Clyde, Lyda Roberti, Susan Fleming, Hugh Herbert, George Barbier, Dickie Moore

15.) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, USA 1934, directed by Norman Taurog, starring Pauline Lord, Kent Taylor, Zasu Pitts, W.C. Fields, Evelyn Venable, Charles Middleton, Jimmy Butler, George P. Breakston, Virginia Weidler, Carmencita Johnson, Edith Fellows, Donald Meek, George Reed, Mildred Gover, Arthur Housman, Walter Walker

16.) Mississippi, USA 1935, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, starring Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Joan Bennett, Gail Patrick, Queenie Smith, Claude Gillingwater, John Miljan, Jan Duggan, Fred Kohler, Edward Pawley, Paul Hurst, Theresa Maxwell Conover, the Cabin Kids, John Larkin, Libby Taylor, Fred 'Snowflake' Toones, J.P. McGowan, Stanley Andrews, Francis McDonald, King Baggot, George Lloyd, Al Richmond, Eddie Sturgis, Mahlon Hamilton, Roy Bailey, Charles King, James Burke, Jack Carlyle, Harry Cody, Clarence Geldart, Jack Mulhall, Harry Myers

17.) My Little Chickadee, USA 1940, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Ruth Donnelly, Margaret Hamilton, Donald Meek, Fuzzy Knight, Willard Robertson, George Moran, Jackie Searl, Fay Adler, Gene Austin, Coco and Candy (= Otto Meimel, Russell Hall), William 'Billy' Benedict, Jimmy Conlin, William B.Davidson, Anne Nagel, Addison Richards, written by Mae West, W.C. Fields, music by Frank Skinner

18.) Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, USA 1941, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Billy Lenhart, Kenneth Brown, Margaret Dumont, Susan Miller, Franklin Pangborn, Mona Barrie, Charles Lang, Anne Nagel, Nell O'Day, Irving Bacon, Jody Gilbert, Minerva Urecal, Emmett Vogan, Carlotta Monti, and as gorilla Emil Van Horn, story by Otis Criblecoblis (= W.C. Fields), screenplay by Prescott Chaplin, John T.Neville, music by Frank Skinner

19.) The Old Fashioned Way, USA 1934, directed by William Beaudine, starring W.C. Fields, Joe Morrison, Judith Allen, Jan Duggan, Oscar Apfel, Nora Cecil, Baby LeRoy, Tammany Young, Jack Mulhall, Samuel Ethridge, Ruth Marion, Richard Carle, Larry Grenier, William Blatchford, Jeffrey Williams, Donald Brown, Tom Miller, Dorothy Bay, Lew Kelly, story by Charles Bogle (= W.C. Fields), screenplay by Garnett Weston, Jack Cunningham, the play-within-the-movie The Drunkard written by William H.Smith, music by John Leipold

20.) Pool Sharks, USA 1915, directed by Edwin Middleton, starring W.C. Fields, Bud Ross, written by W.C. Fields

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21.) Sally of the Sawdust, USA 1925, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Carol Dempster, W.C. Fields, Alfred Lunt, Erville Alderson, Effie Shannon, Charles Hammond, Roy Applegate, Florence Fair, Marie Shotwell, Glenn Anders

22.) Six of a Kind, USA 1934, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, George Burns, Gracie Allen, W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Bradley Page, Grace Bradley, William J.Kelly, Phil Tead

23.) Tillie and Gus, USA 1933, directed by Francis Martin, starring W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Jacqueline Wells (= Julie Bishop), Clifford Jones (= Phillip Trent), Clarence Wilson, Baby LeRoy, George Barbier, Barton Maclane, Edgar Kennedy, Robert McKenzie, Ivan Linow, story by Rupert Hughes, screenplay by Walter DeLeon, Francis Martin, W.C. Fields

24.) You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, USA 1939, directed by George Marshall, starring W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen & his dummy Charlie McCarthy, Constance Moore, John Arledge, James Bush, Thurston Hall, Mary Forbes, Edward Brophy, Arthur Hohl, Princess Baba, Blacaman. Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, story by Charles Bogle (= W.C. Fields), screenplay by Everett Freeman, Richard Mack, George Marion jr, music by Frank Skinner

25.) You're Telling Me!, USA 1934, directed by Erle C. Kenton, starring W.C. Fields, Joan March, Buster Crabbe (= Larry Crabbe), Audrienne Ames, Louise Carter, Kathleen Howard, Tammany Young, Dell Henderson, James B.'Pop' Kenton, Robert McKenzie, Nora Cecil, George Irving, Frederick Sullivan, Dorothy Bay, Elise Cavanna, Florence Enright, Isabel La Mal, James C.Morton, Eddie Baker, William Robyns, John M.Sullivan, screenplay by Walter DeLeon, Paul M.Jones, W.C. Fields, dialogue by J.P. McEvoy, based on the story Mr. Bisbee's Princess by Julian Street, music by John Leipold, Tom Satterfield