William Claude Dukenfield (29 Januari 1880 – 25 Desember 1946)[1] yang lebih dikenal sebagai W. C. Fields, adalah seorang pelawak, pemeran, juggler, dan penulis Amerika Serikat.[2] Pesona komika Fields masih menjadi karakter khasnya.
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^"Fields always observed his birthday on January 29, and his death certificate confirms this. ... When Fields married Harriet Veronica Hughes in San Francisco, on April 8, 1900, he was twenty years old and, under California law, could not enter into a marriage without parental consent. He therefore gave his birthdate as April 9, 1879, and often used this date thereafter. However, when he applied for a passport later that same year, he swore under oath that his correct birthdate was January 29, 1880." Curtis, James. W. C. Fields: A Biography. New York: A. Knopf, 2003, p. 525
Jan Kindler, "Elysian Fields", Playboy (March 1969)
Buku
W. C. Fields, Fields for President (1940, 1971) Dodd, Mead ISBN0396064191. (Humorous essays about Fields's stance on marriage, politics, finance, etc.)
Robert Lewis Taylor, W. C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes (1949) Doubleday & Co., (1967) New American Library ISBN0451506537. (First book biography, with many firsthand quotes from friends and colleagues)
Gene Fowler, Minutes of the Last Meeting (1954) Viking Press
Eddie Cantor, As I Remember Them (1963) Duell, Sloan & Pearce
Donald Deschner (ed.), The Films of W. C. Fields (1966, 2000) Citadel Press
Corey Ford, "The One and Only W. C. Fields" from The Time of Laughter (1967) Little, Brown
William K. Everson, The Art of W. C. Fields (1967) Random House ISBN0517012324. (First book-length examination of the Fields films)
Richard J. Anobile (ed.), Drat!: Being the Encapsulated View of Life by W. C. Fields in His Own Words (1968) World Publishing
David Robinson, The Great Funnies: A History of Film Comedy (1969) E.P. Dutton
Bosley Crowther, "W. C. Fields Comedy Festival" from New York Times Film Reviews, 1959–1968 (1970) Arno Press
Andre Sennwald, capsule reviews from New York Times Film Reviews, 1932–1938 (1970) Arno Press
Raymond Durgnat, "Suckers and Soaks" from The Crazy Mirror: Hollywood Comedy and the American Image (1970) Dell Publishing
Andrew Bergman, "Some Anarcho-Nihilist Laff Riots" from We're in the Money: Depression America and Its Films (1971) New York University Press
Otis Ferguson, "The Great McGonigle" from The Film Criticism of Otis Ferguson (1971) Temple University Press
Richard J, Anobile (ed.), A Flask of Fields: Verbal and Visual Gems from the Films of W. C. Fields (1972) W.W. Norton
Leonard Maltin, Selected Short Subjects (first published as The Great Movie Shorts, 1972) Crown Publishers, (revised 1983) Da Capo Press
Ronald J. Fields (ed.), W. C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts and Articles (1973) Prentice-Hall ISBN0139444629.
W. C. Fields (with Charles Grayson), The Bank Dick (1973) Simon & Schuster (the August 22, 1940 screenplay)
W. C. Fields (with John T. Neville, et al.), Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (Rupert Hughes, et al.) Tillie and Gus (1973) Simon & Schuster (Continuity scripts derived from these films)
Penelope Gilliatt, "To W. C. Fields, Dyspeptic Mumbler, Who Invented His Own Way Out" from Unholy Fools: Wits, Comics, Disturbers of the Peace (1973) Viking Press
Gerald Mast, The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies (1973, 2nd ed. 1979) University of Chicago Press
Donald W. McCaffrey, "The Latter-Day Falstaff" from The Golden Age of Sound Comedy (1973) A.S. Barnes
Nicholas Yanni, W. C. Fields (1974) Pyramid Library
Richard J. Anobile (ed.), Godfrey Daniels!: Verbal and Visual Gems from the Short Films of W. C. Fields (1975) Crown
Walter Kerr, The Silent Clowns (1975) Alfred A. Knopf, (1990) Da Capo Press
Stuart Byron and Elizabeth Weis (eds.), The National Society of Film Critics on Movie Comedy (1977) Grossman/Viking
Will Fowler, The Second Handshake (1980) Lyle Stuart
Louise Brooks, "The Other Face of W. C. Fields" from Lulu in Hollywood (1982) Alfred A. Knopf
Ronald J. Fields, W. C. Fields: A Life on Film (1984) St. Martin's Press
Wes D. Gehring, W. C. Fields: A Bio-Bibliography (1984) Greenwood Press
Gerald Weales, Canned Goods as Caviar: American Film Comedy of the 1930s (1985) University of Chicago Press
David T. Rocks, W. C. Fields: An Annotated Guide (1993) McFarland & Co.
Wes D. Gehring, Groucho and W. C. Fields: Huckster Comedians (1994) University Press of Mississippi
Simon Louvish, It's a Gift (1994) British Film Institute
Simon Louvish, Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields (1999) Faber & Faber ISBN0393041271. (New biography with new research)
Ronald J. Fields with Shaun O'L. Higgins, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break: W. C. Fields on Business (2000) Prentice-Hall
James Curtis, W. C. Fields: A Biography (2003) Alfred A. Knopf ISBN0375402179. (The definitive, comprehensive biography, with many "apocryphal" stories from previous bios corrected)
