In his early days he NEVER drank alcohol but carried a trunk full of it just so that other actors would visit him in his trailer. Alcohol would interfere with his coordination and he really needed to watch that because at the time he was the world's greatest juggler.

2 fingers in the eyes, donk!

It's wonderful to have had a childhood that warped us, wasn't it?!

God you must be old

Warped? This stuff seems pretty on-the-level, I'll have you know! Say, where can a guy get a cold drink around here 😉

I think the artistic ability of Fields is way over your intellect!

"Nonsense, my boy, I'm only 5'8" myself."

The golf scene was a killer. How 'bout the lady with her legs wrapped around him in the dentist chair? Rather risqué for 1932.

The Hays code only came in in 1934. Probably in response to films like this.

Mathew my favorite line of his... Gimme my club...my Canadian Club. My father's drink of choice

i used ice box right up throigh the '60's. i said record player, too. didn't even get as far as hifi LOL

first time for me too, heard the term but didn't know it was anything other than a refrigerator with an "ice box" that froze stuff. this apparently was the cooling mechanism. wikipedia says ice boxes were referred to as "refrigerators" by people in those days. they became "ice boxes" after electric refrigerators were invented. selling ice was big business back in the day. shipped everywhere, especially down south.

In some models the ice was on the side. There was a pan under the ice to collect the water as it melted.

What about the radar range?

WC threatens his daughter that he'll buy a "Frigidaire"...

😂

Yes!! I was put mind of Carol Burnett, too, from the moment she walked in. Funny Stuff!!!

I said the same exact thing she resembles Carol alot

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There were no censors yet! This is pre-code W.C. Fields.

Precode. By the 1940s this would have been forbidden.

John x July 1, 1934 actually.

I don't think she was wearing a bra either. My first thought was that this was pre-code. What was that he removed from his pocket?

The part where the woman has her legs wrapped around him was censored by the Hays Office for many years. I am grateful that this copy still exists and was released on KZfaq

So very true.

Well said

How old are you?

Ur right!

A mean and nasty guy... on screen and in real life.

She was a lovely free-spirit in real life. The exaggerated make-up and expressions hide her unconventional beauty.

Fields would often write his own movies but never took credit with his own name. He made up name like Charles Bogle, Otis Criblecoblis, and Mahatma Kane Jeeves - the last name was a take on broadway where the rich guy always told his butler "My hat, my cane Jeeves".

O.o

By the following year, 1933, prohibition was lifted.

Jackie gleason

Sa Soupy

@buzzclick500 "It rusts pipes"

Bud also played a patient of The Three Stooges when they were dentist.

I was about to post about seeing Vernon Dent here . . . glad you corrected me first, would have been embarassing

Fields was a juggler in his youth, and even later in his life, he could do some impressive acrobatics.

It might have weighed closer to 80. Im an ice fisherman

both women actually do , the patient hide herlelf with the handkerchief...

Thanks for pointing that out.. I have now watched it 5 times now and see even W.C. gave a Big Grin. Priceless. The Bonk coconut sound set it off IMHO. Elise Cavanna is the patient. BTW I play a lot of Golf around 40 plus years worth, I've seen all kinds of swings and what I saw WC Fields swing was as natural as any I have ever seen.

Same. I was about six. Saw this on one of my perants VHS tapes

The legend is that this was not his natural voice but an imitation of the man who ran off with his wife and he assumed it to annoy her.

“Didn’t start smoking till I was 9” One of my favorite W C Fields’ lines. From The Bank Dick, one of his best films.

I am glad you pointed it out, I had to go back and check, it was even funnier then, thank you!

The assistant does break up a bit, but I think the scarf is because some plaster dust went in the patient's mouth and she's choking a bit, not laughing. Note that there is an added sound effect when the plaster hits his head, so it is quite clearly intentional.

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True comedy, a lost art.

A slap on the butt for back then wow

Wafflezombies1964 And that was his daughter! This was pre-code, but that straddling scenes at 17:00 was definitely something you wouldn’t see in mainstream film until at least the 70s!

Hope for the planet, yes, it was all suggestive for that time period, but not that suggestive compared to what goes on today.

1Rdby, yes, that straddling stuff was not shown again until the 1970s. But in the next several decades after the 1970s, it got much more suggestive than any pre code early 1930s material ever was. Pre code never had what we had after the 1970s and what we have today, including full frontal nudity and fully nude sex scenes in films in regular movie theaters, strings of F bombs in films, TV shows, etc., millions and millions of porn videos on the internet and everywhere. The world was still less raunchy back then than it is today, even with all the speakeasies back then. Now violence, that's another story. Violence was not better back then than today, with all the gangster controlled speakeasies and such.

Note he tones down the butt slap - uses the back of the hand, like modern airport security.

That was no lady! That was Elise Cavanna.

It was alcohol that killed him. His Cirrhosis was so severe he had a massive haemorrhage and choked in his own blood

One of WC Field's skits had him set his golf bag down on an active termite mound, with a pest control guy worked into the routine. Naturally, the termites were quick acting and hilarity ensued as WC's clubs disintegrated in his hands and shots went wild.

Fields often foursomed with "Babe Hardy," Babe Ruth and Bing Crosby. They were all good, with Bing the best.

Thot that was Hardy. He used to win all the local championships.

Then, after he follows with "should I use gas" she gets her turn with the clever "Well, gas or electric light etc." which went right over my head when I first watched this as a kid and had never heard of gas lighting.

I saw that too

@@guest491 me also

All 3 of them were trying to hold it back. Hilarious.

X I think she saw it falling before it hit his head and didn't get the warning in time

That nurse was a great character actress.

airforcemax I heard his sister back in Philly was suspected of being a thespian.

airforcemax I heard his sister back in Philly was suspected of being a thespian.

And Marlena Dietrich, and Kay Francis

They had high ceilings then because there was no a/c and the high ceilings allowed the heat to rise to the ceiling so the lower part could stay cool.

@@susansauls8902 Thanks for sharing that bit of information with me. Now that you explain it that way, it makes sense.

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They weren't straight enough

@@davidcaracappa8798 No, but their legs had all the curves in the right places.

"...Give me the 404 conical...." " Timeless, too