“THE time has come,” W. C. Fields would moan, with his usual all-seeing, alcoholic meditativeness, “to take the bull by the tail and face the situation.” Well, to grasp a tail, the new films of the ...

GODFREY DANIEL! MOTHer of pearl! Simon Louvish wants to set the record straight on the life of W. C. Fields. In Man on the Flying Trapeze (564 pages. Norton. $29.95), Fields's latest biographer starts ...

THE oldest item in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new exhibition, “The Peregrinations & Pettifoggery of W.C. Fields,” is a small theatrical datebook from 1898 filled with browning ...

byRobert Lewis Taylor. Doubleday, $3.50. A smartly written and most engaging account of the inimitable comedian and juggler, the sadistic W. C. Fields. For those who remember the great days of ...

On my week off last month, I fulfilled a longtime wish by visiting two repertory movie houses in L.A., both of them owned by Quentin Tarantino: the New Beverly in the Fairfax District and the Vista ...

SANTA CRUZ >> The grandson of comedic icon W.C. Fields said he was going to have a hard time not crying at his daughter’s wedding at the Chaminade Resort & Spa in Santa Cruz on Saturday afternoon.

Legend has it that W.C. Fields said, “Anyone who hates babies and dogs can’t be all bad.” While it’s debatable if the famed comic actually uttered those words, he wouldn’t have meant it, says his ...