It's a Gift
Kathleen Howard
...shrewish wife of W.C. Fields in a film that many historians consider to be his best and funniest, It's a Gift (1934); she additionally played W.C. Fields' wife in Man on the Flying...
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The Bank Dick
...of his name, established in the film's very first scene, echoes the running joke in It's a Gift, in which Fields and his wife were constantly telling people to pronounce the family...
Diana Lewis
...(1934) and worked steadily over the next few years, usually in minor roles. Her more notable films include It's a Gift (1934), Gold Diggers in Paris (1938), Go West '' (1940) and ''Johnny...
John B. Goodman
...three more in the category Best Art Direction . He worked on 208 films between 1934 and 1968 , including It's a Gift (1934) starring W.C. Fields. Goodman won an Academy Awards for Best...
Hans Dreier
...relocated to Hollywood . He made contributions to nearly 500 films during his lengthy career, including It's a Gift (1934) starring W.C. Fields. He was nominated for Academy Awards for...
Jean Rouverol
...in a Hollywood motion picture at the age of seventeen, appearing as W. C. Fields daughter in the comedy It's a Gift (1934). She continued to perform mainly in supporting roles, making...
Movies you can relate to - however you feel
...watch a funny but strangely soothing comedy in the middle of the night: Try either W.C. Fields in "It's a Gift" or Jack Benny in "The Horn Blows at Midnight." I know they work, because...
For those who want to forgo 'feel-good' fare
...to watch a funny but strangely soothing comedy in the middle of the night: Try either W.C. Fields in It's a Gift or Jack Benny in The Horn Blows at Midnight. I know they work, because I...
John West Sinclair
...1920s action heroes as Ken Maynard, Billy Sullivan and Reed Howes. Later he wrote gags for W.C. Fields' comedies It's a Gift and Man on the Flying Trapeze. He was married to Thelma Hill.
California, Here I Come
...of America's love affair with the automobile in the 1950s. In the 1934 W. C. Fields film, It's a Gift, a record of the song is shown on-screen and the Victrola needle is put down to...
How one era could produce bread lines and a breadth of culture
...you feel like an ingrate wishing he'd done more with, say, W.C. Fields (whose classic 1934 comedy, "It's a Gift," is as emblematic of thwarted aspiration during the Depression as any...
Raising Caine and Rock's locks
...daybook for laughs. The Gremlins director is bringing the funny to Dialogues by presenting Norman McLeod's It's a Gift, which is considered by many to be the best W.C. Fields comedy.
