He was considered the greatest vaudeville juggler and performed internationally for top dollar.

Are you trying to say the kardashian's don't have talent?

@@Screenwriting Yes.

It was standard practice back in the Vaudeville days, which were just ending when this was made

Unlike today where everything is "tracked" or "recorded".

@@barryallenflash1 recorded wouldn't be half bad. Most things today are clicked, copied and pasted, and stretched to perfectly match the click track. No soul.

@@alexk3088 Okay, I get all that, but just think how perfectly timed the "effects/music" is in this video. That's ALL they had back then....and THAT was magic!

@@barryallenflash1 yep, that's exactly what I meant in my original comment 😎

Real skill, but they edited the audience in later. They could retake any flops. It is film after all.

Chris Gonzales Pretty clever the way that they got the hecklers involved...

@@christheother9088 But they left some in the cigar box part. In any case, it shows the brilliance and talent of the man.

@@christheother9088 Yes it is just a film but at the same time, Fields was considered on of the best jugglers in the world. Fields like to sneak little bits of juggling into his movies. He would use a candle in a candle stick holder to light his cigar and then toss the candle into the air. The candle would flip a few times and the Fields would catch it in the candle stick holder again.

@@drteeth7054 The "flops" are intentional!

W.C. Fields Forever!

He had the WOLRLD RECORD for juggling ELEVEN objects at once and im pretty sure it on YT somewhere. Better hand eye coordination than 99.999999999999% of people.

@@SuperNevile Along with Strawberry.

It was indeed in one of his full-length films. I was a big fan at a young age and always assumed he was "just" a film comedian, and then I saw this routine. I'm guessing it was in the mid-60s when I saw it, probably an afternoon film on one of the off-channels in LA (5-KTLA, 9-KHJ, 11-KTTV, or 13-KCOP); I was about 8. His humor and talent still resonates. Very, very talented guy, with or without his physical humor. "Go away, kid, you bother me"

People didn't insist on colour.

This is from one of his full length movies.

​@@CoronadoBruinYeah, that "Go away, you bother me" is my response to a lot of the wackiness that is plaguing our world today. Such an apt expression.

@@43mackmobile He also said that water rusts pipes..... "There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation." - W.C.Fields

@@bjbell52 He said he would never drink water as fish fucked in it

Absolutely. The best

He was really talented

What's really amazing is that all that pineapple juice didn't affect his coordination.

I am a retired psychologist and would be very interested in reading about his descent into alcoholism. That much ethanol in a 24 hour period might kill me. His tag lines, set pieces, impeccable timing came later. He must have been so dedicated to develop the reflexes, concentration, and muscle control to juggle with such ease and elegance.

I've wondered if this was him as a drunk older man what was he like in his prime

I have seen some of his film work, but never had seen this. Thanks! I think I will go back and find a biography.

Good point: Silence is something most "stars" haven't mastered. Fields is in rare company.

@@eddierayvanlynch6133 I always thought of fields being known for making stupid comments under his breath all the time

“Stupid comments”?? Some of those were comedic gems my friend!

@@chasbodaniels1744 Well yeah I agree I was just saying the other guy said he's the master of silence

@@pleasegetalife_whatswrongwu His comedy came about because when he would inevitably drop something while juggling, he would then make a smartass remark to kind of keep the entertainment flowing. He noticed that he did very well at making people laugh by doing that and built it into his act.

Oh, god, he DIED‽

Imagine the fun he would have today with todays wokies? Lol

Thank Goodness you approve

Bill Fields often complained about how long it took him (10 years!) to shake the "comic juggler" typecasting, before he started doing straight comedy...

@@CLASSICALFAN100, did you mean William Claude Dukenfield?

@@bradleyvantassal8328 : Exactly-you read his biography!

But then he is not sober...

@laughinggravy2 You seem nice

@laughinggravy2 You're funny! Like we really care about stupid in-bred royals.

@laughinggravy2 I bet your teeth are neither crooked nor yellow...

@laughinggravy2 Huh... Couple of things. 1st. If you are keen of calling someone an idiot, you might want to learn to type for example the Roman numerals, if you need to use them in a sentence. There is no such numeral among them as triple i. It's III. 2nd. Even though typing may be a touchy subject and all to some with the dyslexic problems also enjoying the joys of the internet, you might want to at least learn the basics like the capital letters and punctutation. You might actually come across bit more coherent than you do now. 3rd. Last King of England was George VI, 1895-1952. The reason he is not always called the "King of England" is in the fact that during his time England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales formed the United Kingdom. That formation process started during 1535 and 1542 with the Laws in Wales Act. William of Orange's time ended in 1702, not in 1689. Your rant would have looked a lot more nicer if you would have just copy pasted the Wikipedia article about George IV, which you quoted on your comment. That's a peculiar username BTW, does it mean alcohol or did you just pull it out of your a... hat?

@laughinggravy2 "Idiot American". You would be much more convincing if you would know some Finnish, in which my username is spelled because I am Finnish. And if your syntax would not look like scrambled shit. Tell me, for I'm such an idiot, what is the first name of the countries forming the UK and wasn't George IV the King of that country? Are you British? If you are, why do you suck in English so bad?

soooo, why are you keeping this stuff to yourself?! Post on KZfaq and let the world appreciate and enjoy 'ol Bill

No way.

check upon his incredible Billiard-Table-Act.

Well, we don't want to be entertained today by people who do things better than the rest of us. We want reality shows, where we just watch ourselves, in other words, average people doing mediocre things.

I love W.C.but he died before I was born. There have been all kinds of amazing performances done in the present day and more to come in the future!

go fuck yourself

@@scribe570 Perfect answer. I never thought of it that way but I think you're right.

No, that's just trite; you don't have amazing taste just for mindlessly bashing "American popular culture" like every other American trying to distinguish themselves by being like everybody else. You must be unaware of what else passed for "entertainment" in that era as well. It wasn't all brilliant, not by a longshot. Vaudeville shows often ran ten hours or more continuously, and they served up plenty of dreck with occasional bits of brilliance, but to assume anything like a majority of it was 'superior' overall to modern entertainment, is just ignorance. You aren't smarter for pretending the modern era is 'worse', you're just showing how little you know of the vaudeville-radio-film era.

By drinking before the performance

Maybe the drinking was a myth, and he didn't drink.

thank you much appreciated

Baby LeRoy was in three more films with Fields besides this one. He did not play his son in any of them.

In a famous scene Fields kicked little baby lee roy in the butt because he was being a real brat at the breakfast table.

The battle axe wife: “Don’t you dare strike that child!” Brat: “Whattsa matta Pop, don’t ya love me anymore?” Fields (preparing a backhanded swat at his kid): “Don’t tell me I don’t love ya!”

@@chasbodaniels1744 "Hit em again, Ma!"

and legend has it that he invented the juggling of cigar boxes because when he was learning how to juggle, he didn't have the money to buy bowling pins but did have access to cigar boxes.

He was nowhere near the best juggler (check out Enrico Rastelli), but he was a tremendous entertainer.

@@bjbell52 , and cigar boxes are NOT easy to juggle! And nobody else juggled them, which made him even more special. Long before he was at all well known, he got a gig juggling at a church, but he was told he couldn't use cigar boxes, because the church was completely anti-tobacco. He told the pastor in all seriousness that they weren't REAL cigar boxes: he had them specially made for his act, and they had never been near a cigar. The pastor believed him, and it was on with the show.

Same here,... Mad respect for him now seeing this.

Lol, you're calling this "trained talent"? Juggling balls and cigar boxes is "trained talent" eh, from Juggling University? Studied with the masters? No. It's really sad that in your clumsy attempt to bash the modern era of entertainment, all you did was reveal that you don't know what "trained talent" means. I'm a huge fan of WC Fields but it's sickening to see people pretend to have 'good taste' just because you ignore the modern era. Your ignorance isn't providing you with information..

@@jamescarter3196 I dunno.58 people agreed with him, with just one dissenter, you. Your arrogance isn't providing you with information.

And his son, Chester.

@@leifvejby8023 , hee hee! Right, Chester. Chester Fields...who enjoyed that other kind of cigarette, the name of which I can't even remember!

On the contrary! Fields often said that he liked children. Fried.

@@15743_Hertz Boiled, actually.

@@JustinCase99999 Looks like we're both incorrect. In the film "Millie and Gus" his character replies "I do if they're properly cooked".

@@15743_Hertz OK, but I'll believe it when I hear him say it. 😊

Also wc fields: “i love children, girl children that is, between the ages of 18-25” lolz

I watched his foot trick with the two boxes popping up multiple times. Don't know how hard it is, but he certainly makes it look the boxes have a mind of their own.

Before Television, movies people had to entertain themselves. Or go mad.

My favorite comedian ever. Bill was dead 21 years before I ever heard tell of him. William Claude D...Fields would've given Robin Williams fits of "Where did I poop last Bill, I think it was a sousaphone" Mae West says she's looking for loopholes...bring a bottle of gin with ya. W.C. Fields remains my favorite comedian.