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W. C. Fields

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William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American actor, comedian, juggler, and writer. [1]

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  1. 280 relations: A Christmas Carol, A. Edward Sutherland, ABC News (United States), Academy Awards, Al Hirschfeld, Alice in Wonderland (1933 film), Alison Skipworth, Aljean Harmetz, Ally Sloper, American burlesque, American Civil War, Andrew Bergman, Andrew L. Stone, Anthology film, Anthony Quinn, Arthur Frank Wertheim, Arthur Ripley, Aside, B. P. Schulberg, Baby LeRoy, Biography (TV program), Bob Hope, Bobby Jones (golfer), Bogle, Bosley Crowther, Broadway theatre, Buster Keaton, Card sharp, Carlotta Monti, CBS, Cecil B. DeMille, Channel 4, Charles Dickens, Charlie Chaplin, Charlie McCarthy, Chester Conklin, Chico Marx, Chiswick Empire, Christie brothers, Cigar box juggling, Citizen Kane, Clyde Bruckman, Comic strip, Copyright, Corey Ford, D. W. Griffith, Darby, Pennsylvania, David Copperfield (1935 film), David Robinson (film critic), Derek Newark, ... Expand index (230 more) »

  2. Blue Thumb Records artists
  3. Trick shot artists
  4. Ziegfeld Follies

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol.

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A. Edward Sutherland

Albert Edward Sutherland (January 5, 1895 – December 31, 1973) was a British film director and actor.

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ABC News (United States)

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Al Hirschfeld

Albert Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 – January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.

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Alice in Wonderland (1933 film)

Alice in Wonderland is a 1933 American pre-Code fantasy film adapted from the novels by Lewis Carroll.

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Alison Skipworth

Alison Skipworth (born Alison Mary Elliott Margaret Groom; 25 July 18635 July 1952) was an English stage and screen actress. W. C. Fields and Alison Skipworth are Paramount Pictures contract players.

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Aljean Harmetz

Aljean Meltsir Harmetz (born December 30, 1929) is an American journalist and film historian.

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Ally Sloper

Alexander "Ally" Sloper is the eponymous fictional character of the British comic strip Ally Sloper.

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American burlesque

American burlesque is a genre of variety show derived from elements of Victorian burlesque, music hall, and minstrel shows.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Andrew Bergman

Andrew Bergman (born February 20, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist.

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Andrew L. Stone

Andrew Lysander Stone (July 16, 1902 – June 9, 1999) was an American screenwriter, film director and producer.

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Anthology film

An anthology film (also known as an omnibus film, package film, or portmanteau film) is a single film consisting of several shorter films, each complete in itself and distinguished from the other, though frequently tied together by a single theme, premise, or author.

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Anthony Quinn

Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), better known by his stage name Anthony Quinn, was an American actor. W. C. Fields and Anthony Quinn are Paramount Pictures contract players.

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Arthur Frank Wertheim

Arthur Frank Wertheim (22 December 1935 - 24 November 2020) was a scholar in the United States.

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Arthur Ripley

Arthur DeWitt Ripley (January 12, 1897 – February 13, 1961) was an American film screenwriter, editor, producer, and director.

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Aside

An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience.

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B. P. Schulberg

B.

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Baby LeRoy

Ronald Le Roy Overacker (May 12, 1932 – July 28, 2001), better known by his stage name Baby LeRoy, was an American child actor who appeared in films in the 1930s. W. C. Fields and Baby LeRoy are Paramount Pictures contract players.

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Biography (TV program)

Biography is an American documentary television series and media franchise created in the 1960s by David L. Wolper and owned by A&E Networks since 1987.

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Bob Hope

Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours. W. C. Fields and Bob Hope are American male radio actors and Paramount Pictures contract players.

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Bobby Jones (golfer)

Robert Tyre Jones Jr. (March 17, 1902 – December 18, 1971) was an American amateur golfer who was one of the most influential figures in the history of the sport; he was also a lawyer by profession.

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Bogle

A bogle, boggle, or bogill is a Northumbrian,Rambles in Northumberland, and on the Scottish border... by William Andrew Chatto, Chapman and Hall, 1835 Cumbrian and Scots term for a ghost or folkloric being,The local historian's table book, of remarkable occurrences, historical facts, traditions, legendary and descriptive ballads connected with the counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham.

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Bosley Crowther

Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist, writer, and film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian and film director. W. C. Fields and Buster Keaton are American vaudeville performers and silent film comedians.

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Card sharp

A card sharp (also card shark, sometimes hyphenated or spelled as a single word) is a person who uses skill and/or deception to win at card games (such as poker).

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Carlotta Monti

Carlotta Monti (January 25, 1907 – December 8, 1993) was an American film actress, who was W. C. Fields' companion in his last years.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker and actor. W. C. Fields and Cecil B. DeMille are members of The Lambs Club.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. W. C. Fields and Charlie Chaplin are silent film comedians.

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Charlie McCarthy

Charlie McCarthy is famed dummy partner of American ventriloquist Edgar Bergen.

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Chester Conklin

Chester Cooper Conklin (January 11, 1886 – October 11, 1971) was an early American film comedian who started at Keystone Studios as one of Mack Sennett’s Keystone Cops, often paired with Mack Swain. W. C. Fields and Chester Conklin are American vaudeville performers and silent film comedians.

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Chico Marx

Leonard Joseph "Chico" Marx (March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961) was an American comedian, actor and pianist. W. C. Fields and Chico Marx are American vaudeville performers and Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale).

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Chiswick Empire

The Chiswick Empire was a theatre facing Turnham Green in Chiswick that opened in 1912 and closed and was demolished in 1959.

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Christie brothers

Charles Herbert Christie (April 13, 1882 – October 1, 1955) and Alfred Ernest Christie (November 23, 1886 – April 14, 1951) were Canadian motion picture entrepreneurs.

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Cigar box juggling

Cigar box juggling is the juggling of rectangular props that resemble cigar boxes.

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Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles.

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Clyde Bruckman

Clyde Adolf Bruckman (June 30, 1894January 4, 1955) was an American writer and director of comedy films during the late silent era as well as the early sound era of cinema.

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Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

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A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.

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Corey Ford

Corey Ford (April 29, 1902 – July 27, 1969) was an American humorist, writer, outdoorsman, and screenwriter.

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D. W. Griffith

David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director.

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Darby, Pennsylvania

Darby is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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David Copperfield (1935 film)

David Copperfield is a 1935 American film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer based upon Charles Dickens' 1850 novel ''The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger'' (though a number of characters and incidents from the novel were omitted).

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David Robinson (film critic)

David Robinson (born 6 August 1930 in Lincoln) is an English film critic and author.

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Derek Newark

Derek John Newark (8 June 1933 – 11 August 1998) was an English actor in television, film and theatre.

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Dodd, Mead & Co.

Dodd, Mead and Company was one of the pioneer publishing houses of the United States, based in New York City.

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Dorothy Lamour

Dorothy Lamour (born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton; December 10, 1914 – September 22, 1996) was an American actress and singer. W. C. Fields and Dorothy Lamour are American vaudeville performers and Paramount Pictures contract players.

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Double entendre

A double entendre (plural double entendres) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which is typically obvious, and the other often conveys a message that would be too socially unacceptable, or offensive to state directly.

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E. Mason Hopper

E.

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Ebenezer Scrooge

Ebenezer Scrooge is a fictional character and the protagonist of Charles Dickens's 1843 short novel, A Christmas Carol.

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Ed Wynn

Isaiah Edwin Leopold (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966), better known as Ed Wynn, was an American actor and comedian. W. C. Fields and Ed Wynn are American male radio actors, American vaudeville performers, Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), comedians from Philadelphia, Male actors from Philadelphia, members of The Lambs Club and Ziegfeld Follies.

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Eddie Cantor

Eddie Cantor (born Isidore Itzkowitz; January 31, 1892 – October 10, 1964) was an American comedian, actor, dancer, singer, songwriter, film producer, screenwriter and author. W. C. Fields and Eddie Cantor are American male radio actors, American vaudeville performers, members of The Lambs Club and Ziegfeld Follies.

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Edgar Bergen

Edgar John Bergen (born Edgar John Berggren; February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, vaudevillian and radio performer. W. C. Fields and Edgar Bergen are American male radio actors and American vaudeville performers.

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Edward F. Cline

Edward Francis Cline (November 4, 1891 – May 22, 1961) was an American screenwriter, actor, writer and director best known for his work with comedians W.C. Fields and Buster Keaton.

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Elise Cavanna

Elise Alyse Cavanna (January 30, 1902 – May 12, 1963) was an American film actress, stage comedian, dancer, and fine artist. W. C. Fields and Elise Cavanna are Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), comedians from Philadelphia and silent film comedians.

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Erle C. Kenton

Erle C. Kenton (August 1, 1896 – January 28, 1980) was an American film director. W. C. Fields and Erle C. Kenton are Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale).

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Everyman

The everyman is a stock character of fiction.

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Fibber McGee and Molly

Fibber McGee and Molly (1935–1959) was a longtime husband-and-wife team radio comedy program.

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Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr. (March 21, 1867 – July 22, 1932) was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies (1907–1931), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris. W. C. Fields and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. are Ziegfeld Follies.

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Flushing, Queens

Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens.

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Follow the Boys (1944 film)

Follow the Boys also known as Three Cheers for the Boys is a 1944 musical film made by Universal Pictures during World War II as an all-star cast morale booster to entertain the troops abroad and the civilians at home.

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Fools for Luck

Fools for Luck is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Harry Fried, George Marion Jr., Sam Mintz, and J. Walter Ruben.

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Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in Glendale, California, United States. W. C. Fields and Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) are Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale).

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Frank Capra

Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Italian-American film director, producer, and screenwriter who was the creative force behind several major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. W. C. Fields and Frank Sinatra are American male radio actors.

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Franklin Pangborn

Franklin Pangborn (January 23, 1889 – July 20, 1958) was an American comedic character actor famous for playing small but memorable roles with comic flair. W. C. Fields and Franklin Pangborn are Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale).

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Freaks and Geeks

Freaks and Geeks is an American teen comedy-drama television series created by Paul Feig and executive-produced by Judd Apatow that aired on NBC during the 1999–2000 television season.

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Fred C. Newmeyer

Fred C. Newmeyer (August 9, 1888 – April 24, 1967) was an American actor, film director and film producer.

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Frito Bandito

The Frito Bandito was the cartoon mascot for Fritos corn chips from 1967 to 1971.

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Frito-Lay

Frito-Lay, Inc. is an American subsidiary of PepsiCo that manufactures, markets, and sells corn chips, potato chips, and other snack foods.

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Gangsters (TV series)

Gangsters is a British television programme made by BBC television drama and shown in two series from 1976 to 1978.

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Gaumont Film Company

The Gaumont Film Company, often shortened to Gaumont, is a French film studio headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the oldest extant film company in the world, established before other studios such as Pathé (founded in 1896), Titanus (1904), Nordisk Film (1906), Universal, Paramount, and Nikkatsu (all founded in 1912).

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Gene Fowler

Gene Fowler (born Eugene Devlan) (March 8, 1890 – July 2, 1960) was an American journalist, author, and dramatist.

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George Cukor

George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director and producer. W. C. Fields and George Cukor are Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale).

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George Marshall (director)

George E. Marshall (December 29, 1891 – February 17, 1975) was an American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of film history.

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George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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Gerald Mast

Gerald Mast (May 13, 1940 – September 1, 1988) was an author, film historian, and member of the University of Chicago faculty.

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Gigglesnort Hotel

Gigglesnort Hotel is a syndicated children's television program which ran for 78 episodes between 1975 and 1978.

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Glendale, California

Glendale is a city in the San Fernando Valley and Verdugo Mountains regions of Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Gloria Jean

Gloria Jean (born Gloria Jean Schoonover; April 14, 1926 – August 31, 2018) was an American actress and singer who starred or co-starred in 26 feature films from 1939 to 1959, and made numerous radio, television, stage, and nightclub appearances.

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Grady Sutton

Grady Harwell Sutton (April 5, 1906 – September 17, 1995) was an American film and television character actor from the 1920s to the 1970s.

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Gregory La Cava

Gregory La Cava (March 10, 1892 – March 1, 1952) was an American film director of Italian descent best known for his films of the 1930s, including My Man Godfrey and Stage Door, which earned him nominations for Academy Award for Best Director.

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Groucho Marx

Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer who performed in films and vaudeville on television, radio, and the stage. W. C. Fields and Groucho Marx are American vaudeville performers.

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Harpo Marx

Arthur "Harpo" Marx (born Adolph Marx; November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964) was an American comedian, actor, mime artist, and harpist, and the second-oldest of the Marx Brothers. W. C. Fields and harpo Marx are American vaudeville performers.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Her Majesty, Love

Her Majesty, Love is a 1931 American pre-Code musical comedy drama film directed by William Dieterle for First National Pictures, starring Broadway stars Marilyn Miller and Ben Lyon, and in his talking feature debut, W. C. Fields.

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His Lordship's Dilemma

His Lordship's Dilemma is a 1915 silent short comedy film produced by the Gaumont Film Company and distributed by the Mutual Film Corporation.

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Hobo

A hobo is a migrant worker in the United States.

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Hollywood on Parade

Hollywood on Parade (1932–1934) is a series of short subjects released by Paramount Pictures.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.

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Homophone

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to a varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning.

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How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All

How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All is the second comedy album recorded by the Firesign Theatre.

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Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world.

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If I Had a Million

If I Had a Million is a 1932 American pre-Code Paramount Studios anthology film starring Gary Cooper, George Raft, Charles Laughton, W. C. Fields, Jack Oakie, Frances Dee and Charlie Ruggles, among others.

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International House (1933 film)

International House is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film starring Peggy Hopkins Joyce and W. C. Fields, directed by A. Edward Sutherland and released by Paramount Pictures.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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It's a Gift

It's a Gift is a 1934 American comedy film starring W.C. Fields.

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It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas supernatural drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra.

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It's the Old Army Game

It's the Old Army Game is a 1926 American silent comedy film starring W. C. Fields and Louise Brooks.

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James Curtis (biographer)

James Curtis is an American biographer.

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Jan Duggan

Jan Duggan (born Genevieve Hussey; November 6, 1881 – March 10, 1977) was an American film and stage actress.

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Janice Meredith

Janice Meredith, also known as The Beautiful Rebel, is a silent film starring Marion Davies, released in 1924 and based on the book and play A Colonial Girl written by Paul Leicester Ford and Edward Everett Rose.

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Jeeves

Jeeves (born Reginald Jeeves, nicknamed Reggie) is a fictional character in a series of comedic short stories and novels by English author P. G. Wodehouse.

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John Barrymore

John Barrymore (born John Sidney Blyth; February 14 or 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an American actor on stage, screen, and radio. W. C. Fields and John Barrymore are Alcohol-related deaths in California, American male radio actors, American vaudeville performers, Male actors from Philadelphia and members of The Lambs Club.

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John Waters (director born 1893)

John Waters (October 31, 1893 – May 5, 1965) was an American film director, second unit director and, initially, an assistant director.

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Joke theft

Joke theft is the act of performing and taking credit for comic material written or performed by another person without their consent and without acknowledging the other person's authorship.

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Journal of Popular Film and Television is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge, which purchased it from Heldref Publications in 2009.

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Judy Garland

Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer, and dancer. W. C. Fields and Judy Garland are American vaudeville performers.

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Juggling

Juggling is a physical skill, performed by a juggler, involving the manipulation of objects for recreation, entertainment, art or sport.

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Julien Duvivier

Julien Duvivier (8 October 1896 – 29 October 1967) was a French film director and screenwriter.

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Katherine DeMille

Katherine Lester DeMille (born Katherine Paula Lester; June 29, 1911 – April 27, 1995) was a Canadian-born American actress who played 25 credited film roles from the mid-1930s to the late 1940s. W. C. Fields and Katherine DeMille are Paramount Pictures contract players.

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Kathleen Howard

Kathleen Howard (July 27, 1884 – April 15, 1956) was a Canadian-born American opera singer, magazine editor, and character actress from the mid-1930s through the 1940s.

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Kirsten Flagstad

Kirsten Malfrid Flagstad (12 July 1895 – 7 December 1962) was a Norwegian opera singer, who was the outstanding Wagnerian soprano of her era.

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La Ballade des Dalton

La Ballade des Dalton (aka The Ballad of the Daltons in English) is a 1978 French animated film written and directed by René Goscinny, Morris, Henri Gruel and Pierre Watrin starring the comic book character Lucky Luke.

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Larceny

Larceny is a crime involving the unlawful taking or theft of the personal property of another person or business.

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Leo McCarey

Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Leo Rosten

Leo Calvin Rosten (Yiddish:; April 11, 1908 – February 19, 1997) was an American writer and humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism, and Yiddish lexicography.

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Leon Errol

Leon Errol (born Leonce Errol Sims, July 3, 1881 – October 12, 1951) was an Australian-American comedian and actor in the United States, popular in the first half of the 20th century for his appearances in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in films. W. C. Fields and Leon Errol are Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale).

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Leonard Maltin

Leonard Michael Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic, film historian, and author.

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Les Paul

Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Life (magazine)

Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008.

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List of Lucky Luke albums

A list of comics albums featuring the character Lucky Luke, written and drawn by Morris.

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Lost film

A lost film is a feature or short film in which the original negative or copies are not known to exist in any studio archive, private collection, or public archive.

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Louise Brooks

Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. W. C. Fields and Louise Brooks are Paramount Pictures contract players.

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Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke is a Western bande dessinée series created by Belgian cartoonist Morris in 1946.

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Mack Sennett

Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-American producer, director, actor, and studio head who was known as the "King of Comedy" during his career.

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Mae West

Mary Jane "Mae" West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, singer, comedian, screenwriter, and playwright whose career spanned over seven decades. W. C. Fields and Mae West are American vaudeville performers and Paramount Pictures contract players.

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Mahatma

Mahātmā (English pronunciation:, translit) is an honorific used in India.

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Man on the Flying Trapeze

Man on the Flying Trapeze (UK title: The Memory Expert) is a 1935 American comedy film starring W. C. Fields as a henpecked husband who experiences a series of misadventures while taking a day off from work to attend a wrestling match.

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Margaret Dumont

Margaret Dumont (born Daisy Juliette Baker; October 20, 1882 – March 6, 1965) was an American stage and film actress. W. C. Fields and Margaret Dumont are American vaudeville performers.

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Marion Davies

Marion Davies (born Marion Cecilia Douras; January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. W. C. Fields and Marion Davies are American vaudeville performers.

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Mark Proksch

Mark Proksch (born) is an American comedian and character actor.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. W. C. Fields and Mark Twain are 20th-century pseudonymous writers.

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Martha Raye

Martha Raye (born Margy Reed; August 27, 1916 – October 19, 1994), nicknamed The Big Mouth, was an American comic actress and singer who performed in movies, and later on television. W. C. Fields and Martha Raye are American vaudeville performers and Paramount Pictures contract players.

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Mary of Teck

Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 186724 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 20 January 1936 as the wife of King-Emperor George V. Born and raised in London, Mary was the daughter of Francis, Duke of Teck, a German nobleman, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a granddaughter of King George III.

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Max Ernst

Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet.

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Merrie Melodies

Merrie Melodies is an American animated comedy short film series distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.

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Mickey's Polo Team

Mickey's Polo Team is a 1936 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists.

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Million Dollar Legs (1932 film)

Million Dollar Legs is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film starring Jack Oakie and W.C. Fields, directed by Edward F. Cline, produced by Herman J. Mankiewicz (co-writer of Citizen Kane) and B.P. Schulberg, co-written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and released by Paramount Pictures.

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Mississippi (film)

Mississippi is a 1935 American musical comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields, and Joan Bennett.

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Mitchell Leisen

James Mitchell Leisen (October 6, 1898 – October 28, 1972) was an American director, art director, and costume designer.

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Mother Goose Goes Hollywood

Mother Goose Goes Hollywood is a 1938 animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Motion Picture Magazine

Motion Picture was an American monthly fan magazine about film, published from 1911 to 1977.

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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934 film)

Mrs.

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Murdoch Mysteries

Murdoch Mysteries is a Canadian television drama series that premiered on Citytv on January 20, 2008, and currently airs on CBC.

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Music hall

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was most popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850, through the Great War.

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My Little Chickadee

My Little Chickadee is a 1940 American comedy-western film starring Mae West and W. C. Fields, featuring Joseph Calleia, Ruth Donnelly, Margaret Hamilton, Donald Meek, Willard Robertson, Dick Foran, William B. Davidson, and Addison Richards, and released by Universal Pictures.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline and starring W. C. Fields, Gloria Jean, and Leon Errol.

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New Amsterdam Theatre

The New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway theater at 214 West 42nd Street, at the southern end of Times Square, in the Theater District of Manhattan in New York City.

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Norman Taurog

Norman Rae Taurog (February 23, 1899 – April 7, 1981) was an American film director and screenwriter.

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Norman Z. McLeod

Norman Zenos McLeod (September 20, 1898 – January 27, 1964) was an American film director. W. C. Fields and Norman Z. McLeod are Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale).

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On Cinema

On Cinema (also called On Cinema at the Cinema) is an American comedy web series and podcast starring Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre. W. C. Fields and Orson Welles are 20th-century atheists, American atheists, American male radio actors and Universal Pictures contract players.

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Otis Ferguson

Otis Ferguson (August 14, 1907 – September 14, 1943) was an American writer best remembered for his music and film reviews in The New Republic in the 1930s.

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Otto Soglow

Otto Soglow (December 23, 1900 – April 3, 1975) was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip The Little King.

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Outtake

An outtake is a portion of a work (usually a film or music recording) that is removed in the editing process and not included in the work's final, publicly released version.

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Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.

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Oyster bar

An oyster bar, also known as an oyster saloon, oyster house or a raw bar service, is a restaurant specializing in serving oysters, or a section of a restaurant which serves oysters buffet-style.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.

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Pandora's Box (1929 film)

Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, and Francis Lederer.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.

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Pasadena, California

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

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Paul Frees

Solomon Hersh Frees (June 22, 1920November 2, 1986), better known as Paul Frees, was an American actor, comedian, impressionist, and vaudevillian. W. C. Fields and Paul Frees are American male radio actors and American vaudeville performers.

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Penelope Gilliatt

Penelope Gilliatt (born Penelope Ann Douglass Conner; 25 March 1932 – 9 May 1993) was an English novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film critic.

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Persona

A persona (plural personae or personas) is a strategic mask of identity in public, the public image of one's personality, the social role that one adopts, or simply a fictional character.

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Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian.

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Phil Silvers

Phil Silvers (born Phillip Silver; May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedic actor, known as "The King of Chutzpah". W. C. Fields and Phil Silvers are American male radio actors and American vaudeville performers.

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Philip Martin (screenwriter)

Philip Martin (3 July 1938 – 13 December 2020) was an English television screenwriter.

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Philip Proctor

Philip George Proctor (born July 28, 1940) is an American actor and a member of the Firesign Theatre. W. C. Fields and Philip Proctor are American male radio actors.

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Playboy

Playboy (stylized in all caps) is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online.

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Pool (cue sports)

Pool is the name given to a series of cue sports played on a billiard table.

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Pool Sharks

Pool Sharks (also sometimes known as The Pool Shark) is a 1915 silent short film.

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Poppy (1923 musical)

Poppy is a musical comedy in three acts with music by Stephen Jones and Arthur Samuels (additional music by John Egan), and lyrics and book by Dorothy Donnelly, with contributions also from Howard Dietz, W. C. Fields and Irving Caesar.

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Poppy (1936 film)

Poppy is a 1936 comedy film starring W. C. Fields and Rochelle Hudson.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Raymond Durgnat

Raymond Durgnat (1 September 1932 – 19 May 2002) was a British film critic, who was born in London to Swiss parents.

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René Magritte

René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation.

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Rich Little

Richard Caruthers Little (born November 26, 1938) is a Canadian-American comedian, impressionist and voice actor.

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Rich Little's Christmas Carol

Rich Little's Christmas Carol, broadcast in Canada as A Christmas Carol, is a TV special that premiered on CBC Television in December 1978, and in the United States on Home Box Office (HBO) on December 16, 1979.

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RKO Pictures

RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, was an American film production and distribution company, one of the "Big Five" film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.

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Robert Lewis Taylor

Robert Lewis Taylor (September 24, 1912 – September 30, 1998) was an American writer and winner of the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Rod Steiger

Rodney Stephen Steiger (April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters.

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RPM (magazine)

RPM (and later) was a Canadian music-industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada.

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Running Wild (1927 film)

Running Wild is a 1927 American silent comedy film built around the unique talents of its star, W. C. Fields.

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S. Sylvan Simon

S. W. C. Fields and S. Sylvan Simon are Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale).

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Sally of the Sawdust

Sally of the Sawdust is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring W. C. Fields.

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Sam Hardy (actor)

Samuel B. Hardy (March 21, 1883 – October 16, 1935) was an American stage and film actor who appeared in feature films during the silent and early sound eras.

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Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt (born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including by Alexandre Dumas ''fils'', Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand.

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Scam

A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust.

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Scott MacGillivray

Scott MacGillivray (born June 29, 1957) is an American non-fiction author specializing in motion picture history.

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Sensations of 1945

Sensations of 1945 is a 1944 American musical-comedy film directed by Andrew Stone and starring Eleanor Powell.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it.

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Shemp Howard

Shemp Howard (born Samuel Horwitz; March 11, 1895 – November 22, 1955), was an American comedian and actor. W. C. Fields and Shemp Howard are American vaudeville performers and Universal Pictures contract players.

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Shep Fields

Shep Fields (born Saul Feldman, September 12, 1910 – February 23, 1981) was an American bandleader who led the Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm orchestra during the 1930s.

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Silly Symphony

Silly Symphony (also known as Silly Symphonies) is an American animated series of 75 musical short films produced by Walt Disney Productions from 1929 to 1939.

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Simon Louvish

Simon Louvish (born 6 April 1947, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scots-born Israeli author, writer and filmmaker.

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Six of a Kind

Six of a Kind is an American 1934 pre-Code comedy film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, W.C. Fields, George Burns, and Gracie Allen.

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So's Your Old Man

So's Your Old Man is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring W. C. Fields and Alice Joyce.

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Song of the Open Road

Song of the Open Road is a 1944 musical comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon, from a screenplay by Irving Phillips and Edward Verdier.

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Strawberry Fields Forever

"Strawberry Fields Forever" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney.

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Strawbridge's

Strawbridge's, formerly Strawbridge & Clothier, was a department store in the northeastern United States, with stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

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Sunkist Growers, Incorporated

Sunkist Growers, Incorporated, branded as Sunkist, is an American citrus growers' non-stock membership cooperative composed of over 1,000 members from California and Arizona headquartered in Valencia, California.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.

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Tales of Manhattan

Tales of Manhattan is a 1942 American anthology film directed by Julien Duvivier.

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Tales of the Wizard of Oz

Tales of the Wizard of Oz is a 1961 animated television series produced by Crawley Films for Videocraft (later known as Rankin/Bass Productions).

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Tammany Young

Tammany Young (September 9, 1886 – April 26, 1936) was an American stage and film actor.

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Thanks for the Memory

"Thanks for the Memory" (1938) is a popular song composed by Ralph Rainger with lyrics by Leo Robin.

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That Royle Girl

That Royle Girl is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith and released by Paramount Pictures.

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The ABC Comedy Hour

The ABC Comedy Hour is an American television variety series that aired on ABC in 1972.

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The Bank Dick

The Bank Dick, released as The Bank Detective in the United Kingdom, is a 1940 American comedy film starring W. C. Fields.

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The Barber Shop

The Barber Shop (1933) is a short American pre-Code comedy film starring W.C. Fields, directed by Arthur Ripley, and produced by Mack Sennett.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Big Broadcast of 1938

The Big Broadcast of 1938 is a Paramount Pictures musical comedy film starring W. C. Fields and featuring Bob Hope.

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The Chase and Sanborn Hour

The Chase and Sanborn Hour is the umbrella title for a series of American comedy and variety radio shows sponsored by Standard Brands' Chase and Sanborn Coffee, usually airing Sundays on NBC from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. during the years 1929 to 1948.

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The CooCoo Nut Grove

The CooCoo Nut Grove is a 1936 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies short animated film, set in the famed Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

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The Dentist (1932 film)

The Dentist is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy short starring W. C. Fields.

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The Drunkard

The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved is an American temperance play first performed on February 12, 1844.

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The Earl Carroll Vanities

The Earl Carroll Vanities was a Broadway revue presented by Earl Carroll in the 1920s and early 1930s.

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The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933 film)

The Fatal Glass of Beer is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy short film starring W. C. Fields, produced by Mack Sennett, and released theatrically by Paramount Pictures.

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The Firesign Theatre

The Firesign Theatre (also known as the Firesigns) was an American surreal comedy troupe who first appeared on November 17, 1966, in a live performance on the Los Angeles radio program Radio Free Oz on station KPFK FM.

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The Flintstones

The Flintstones is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting and follows the titular family, the Flintstones, and their next-door neighbors, the Rubbles.

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The Golf Specialist

The Golf Specialist is a 1930 pre-Code comedy short subject from RKO Pictures, starring W. C. Fields.

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The Ham Tree

The Ham Tree is a "musical vaudeville" in three acts with music by Jean Schwartz, lyrics by William Jerome, and a book by George V. Hobart.

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The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians

The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians is a 1970 American animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions.

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The Magnificent Ambersons (film)

The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 American period drama written, produced, and directed by Orson Welles.

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The Making of The Wizard of Oz

The Making of the Wizard Of Oz, written by film historian Aljean Harmetz, is a book about the production of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Old Fashioned Way (film)

The Old Fashioned Way is a 1934 American comedy film produced by Paramount Pictures.

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The Pharmacist (1933 film)

The Pharmacist is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Arthur Ripley and starring W. C. Fields.

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The Pickwick Papers

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was the first novel by English author Charles Dickens.

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The Potters (film)

The Potters is a lost 1927 American silent comedy film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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The Rocketeer (film)

The Rocketeer (released internationally as The Adventures of the Rocketeer) is a 1991 American superhero film from Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures.

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The Wizard of Id

The Wizard of Id is a daily newspaper comic strip created by American cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart.

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The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

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The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos

The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos is a 1937 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin.

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Thomas Mitchell (actor)

Thomas John Mitchell (Tomás Mistéal; July 11, 1892 – December 17, 1962) was an Irish-American actor and writer.

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Tillie and Gus

Tillie and Gus is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Francis Martin, co-written by Martin and Walter DeLeon, and starring W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy, Julie Bishop, and Clarence Wilson.

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Tillie's Punctured Romance (1928 film)

Tillie's Punctured Romance is a 1928 American silent circus comedy film starring W. C. Fields as a ringmaster and Louise Fazenda as a runaway.

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Tito Guízar

Federico Arturo Guízar Tolentino (8 April 1908 – 24 December 1999), known professionally as Tito Guízar, was a Mexican singer and actor.

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Trade magazine

A trade magazine, also called a trade journal or trade paper (colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine or newspaper whose target audience is people who work in a particular trade or industry.

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Trick shot

A trick shot (also trickshot or trick-shot) is a shot played on a billiards table (most often a pool table, though snooker tables are also used), which seems unlikely or impossible or requires significant skill.

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Two Flaming Youths

Two Flaming Youths is a lost 1927 American silent comedy film directed by John Waters and written by John W. Conway, Donald Davis, Percy Heath, and Herman J. Mankiewicz.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas, and its associated states.

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Universal Pictures

Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (informally as Universal Studios or also known simply as Universal) is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Universal Studios, which is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.

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Vacuum flask

A vacuum flask (also known as a Dewar flask, Dewar bottle or thermos) is an insulating storage vessel that slows the speed at which its contents change in temperature.

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Vanity Fair (American magazine 1913–1936)

Vanity Fair was an American society magazine published from 1913 to 1936.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Variety Obituaries

Variety Obituaries is a 15-volume series with facsimile reprints of the full text of every obituary published by the entertainment trade magazine Variety from 1905 to 1994.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century.

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W. C. Fields and Me

W.

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Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him

Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him is the first comedy album recorded by the Firesign Theatre.

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Walter Kerr

Walter Francis Kerr (July 8, 1913 – October 9, 1996) was an American writer and Broadway theatre critic.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Wilkins Micawber

Wilkins Micawber is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's 1850 novel David Copperfield.

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Will Rogers

William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. W. C. Fields and Will Rogers are American male radio actors, American vaudeville performers and members of The Lambs Club.

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William Beaudine

William Washington Beaudine (January 15, 1892 – March 18, 1970) was an American film director.

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William Dieterle

William Dieterle (July 15, 1893 – December 9, 1972) was a German-born actor and film director who emigrated to the United States in 1930 to leave a worsening political situation.

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William K. Everson

Keith William Everson (8 April 1929 – 14 April 1996) was an English-American archivist, author, critic, educator, collector, and film historian.

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William LeBaron

William LeBaron (February 16, 1883February 9, 1958) was an American film producer, lyricist, librettist, playwright, and screenwriter.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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Wolf-whistling

A wolf whistle is a distinctive two-note glissando whistled sound made to show high interest in or approval of something or someone (usually a woman), especially at someone viewed as physically or sexually attractive.

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Woody Allen

Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire is an area of Northern England which was historically a county.

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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man is a 1939 American comedy film directed by George Marshall and Edward F. Cline and starring W. C. Fields.

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You're Telling Me!

You're Telling Me! is a 1934 pre-Code comedy film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring W.C. Fields.

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Ziegfeld Follies

The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical revue productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 to 1931, with renewals in 1934, 1936, 1943, and 1957.

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1933 Long Beach earthquake

The 1933 Long Beach earthquake took place on March 10 at south of downtown Los Angeles.

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1940 United States presidential election

The 1940 United States presidential election was the 39th quadrennial presidential election.

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20th Century Studios

20th Century Studios, Inc. is an American film studio owned by the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, in turn a division of The Walt Disney Company.

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72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment

The 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry (originally raised as the 3rd California) was a volunteer infantry regiment which served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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See also

Blue Thumb Records artists

Trick shot artists

Ziegfeld Follies

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._C._Fields

Also known as Charles Bogle, Mahatma Kane Jeeves, Otis Criblecoblis, W C Fields, W.C. Fields, WC Fields, William Claude Dukenfield, William Claude Fields, William Dukenfield.

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