No wonder I'm so warped in my old age. I grew up watching stuff like this when I was 5 years old along with the 3 Stooges and Abbott and Costello. Yuc Yuc, Mee mee mee. Ruff Ruff.
It’s amazing how *trim* W.C Fields was when he initially starred in films. Most of us (myself, at least) remember him as an overweight older man wearing fancy clothes, always puffing away at his cigar with drink in tow. I’ve come to appreciate his many characteristics, always funny & full of interesting shenanigans! Now I know why he was such a well-known legend! I’m really enjoying these short films he was obviously known for; some of his actions, antidotes & gags will cause me to burst out in laughter ~ (I wonder how many of his skits were pure ad-lib) ~ Thx a million!
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.
At the beginning, they show what everybody had in their kitchens in the 1920s and early 1930s, an icebox, which we now call a refrigerator. I called it an icebox when I was a kid in the 1940s because that's what my parents called it, but we never had one, only the electric refrigerator. This is the first time I recall ever seeing how it operated: ice on top.
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.
That scene when she has her legs wrapped around him reminded me of Carol Burnett and her shenanigans. Omgosh!! Sooooo hilarious!! I haven't laughed so much in years!!
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Pizza, I could watch this condensed comedy over and over again. Those actresses, for some peculiar reasons, just screamed sexy! And W.C.'s ball drop off the shoulder blade is riotious. Well done! 🍕
About 100 years later and still hilarious - that scene with the chick with her legs around his waist getting dragged around - how it got past the censors is a mystery...I love WC!
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 UA-cam
The unmistakable w c fields Yeah you proberly know this already . Incredible to think this film was made in the thirties w c fields was way ahead of his time Even today This film is as funny and fresh as ever so are all his other films. W C FIELDS being very funny and completly original I was born in 1958 I love this guy .Who was a master of his art a marvolous entertainer wonderfull
When I was a kid, I enjoyed all the things my grand folks did, from T.V. to radio to vaudeville; not merely the contemporary programming available to me. To this day, I enjoy an old radio program as much as anything recently done. I feel fortunate, I'm not sure why. Fields for example was a comedic master, long before my time, but 'comedy' for me anyway has no 'contemporary' meaning. I can't say thank-you more sincerely enough to those of you who make it a point to post these critical treasures.
Great! Funny, racy, and with a lot of humanity. Some of the gags are telling of the times. The exchange "What is it? - Water. - No thanks." Is about Prohibition that was in force at the time. There are lots of things going on here, all clever, and a some things we don't pick up on now in a changed culture almost 100 years later. We're lucky to still have this film.
I remember reading about this film as a young kid and imagining it was like a skinimax film (I was 12). Years later I saw it and it was worth the wait, simply because it was so much better than I imagined.
So awesome funny as hell. W. C. was a genius. I wish he was here now. He would have so many fans that would love him. In all the world comedians. I would have loved to meet W. C., The Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Red Skelton and Harold Lloyd. Laurel and Hardy. Harry Langdon. These comedians were geniuses
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".
Where are my glasses? They're on your head...Where's my newspaper? You're sitting on it. ....Where're my golf clubs? They're in your golf bag. Etc.---Love WC Fields.
My Grandfather had his own ice and coal business so my dad worked for him from age 14 till 17 when he joined the Navy. My grandmother and my mother even though it been years since my dad worked as an iceman used to joke about the iceman fathered their children people would be in shock till they said that the iceman was their husband. LOL I loved you posted this I needed a good laugh😂
it seems the scene where W. C. is “pulling” the lady’s tooth was cut by the censors - much too sexy for them! so glad you’ve uploaded this sketch!!!!!! :) 😸🐈🐾
When I had my wisdom teeth pulled the oral surgeon called me the next day to see how I was doing and I told him I was ok, but my chest hurt and he told me he had to climb on my chest to get leverage. My dad was a dentist and told me that wasn’t uncommon. Thank goodness for general anesthesia.
I saw this movie as a kid at a day camp for kids at a science museum. At the scene where the lady with the hat walked in, I still remember hearing a boy in the audience say, "That's Carol Burnett!"
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!
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.
loved these old movies as a kid & even more now. My Grandma was the same age as Elise Cavanna.. One thing I always thought would be great is if Elise starred in a movie with ZaSu Pitts they could play sisters.
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.
That WC Fields is sure an a cranky old goat, someone you would spend as little time with as possible, he would have very few friends, funny video though, did not know this Comedy Act existed, thanks You Tube.
That chunk of plaster that hits W.C. Fields at 15:57 wasn't supposed to be. Note how the patient hides the urge to laugh by covering her face with the scarf. W.C. cracks a grin but remains in character. Even the dental assistant turns her head away to save the film shot.
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.
That part of the scene was cut in later releases. The part where he says something like "to hell with her" is covered up by an extraneous moan in the same later releases. I think there was one other censored bit as well, but I can't remember what it was. This short was one of the films mentioned in "Hollywood Uncensored".
judging by the mountains in the background of the golf course they're playing at Griffith Park Calif...people have been playing there since 1914....the beginnings of aviation also started close by in Glendale...the Grand Central Airport opened in 1923 & it was instrumental in the development of aviation in the (then) United States..
A great 86 year look back when golf clubs had hickory shafts, but the rules remain much the same as today. WC Fields was great... As the saying goes: "The more things change, the more they stay the same".
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.
This film has so many classic lines. "Never mind what I told you to do! You do what I tell you!" "This guy's so stupid he doesn't even know what time it is." "What time is it?" "I don't know." Watching his assistant trying not to laugh is pretty fun too.
From 11:22 on Ms Cannova just exudes the grace of a dancer ,artist, because she was both,and then some❗❗her art was early influential...that 6 ' tall frame, beautiful soul/ face left an impression 👀❤️
I challenge any Hollywood so called screenwriter to come up with a script that is one half the blue ribbon, superb, clever writing of a W.C. Fields flick. No writer now has the talent to match the "Reality" of these treasures. Whenever someone thinks of a person living forever they're usually thinking of entertainers like W.C. Fields. Wish he was still alive!!!! See what I'm saying?
Wow, When that female patient in the long dress moves her legs all over the place, it was very sensual. That actress has probably been dead for years yet here we are (in 2020) 88 years later having 'thoughts' about her. Isn't life strange?
Susan Sinclair, That female patient definitely had a talent with her legs. One wonders what Mitzi Gaynor or Juliet Prowse would have done with this role, given that they had the necessary credentials.
His golf partner is the same gent that is in many Three Stooges episodes. With WCF’s blood alcohol level, he should have lived a long time, being so well-preserved!
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.
Elise Cavanna was outstanding as the patient who knew how to use her legs. One wonders's how well Mitzi Gaynor and Juliet Prowse would have done in this role ?
No wonder I'm so warped in my old age. I grew up watching stuff like this when I was 5 years old along with the 3 Stooges and Abbott and Costello. Yuc Yuc, Mee mee mee. Ruff Ruff.
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!
88 years later....I do enjoy the genius W.C.Fields! He was a giant!
"Nonsense, my boy, I'm only 5'8" myself."
I love this window into time for well before I came along
I'M GETTING OLDER IM LIKING THESE OLD MOVIES MORE NOW
😂😂😂😂😬🤣😅😆
Sounds like a demanding Trump on the golf course! 🚨
Can you imagine Trump as a dentist? 😬😂🎆🚨
I loved that vintage kitchen and those vintage clothes.
It’s amazing how *trim* W.C Fields was when he initially starred in films. Most of us (myself, at least) remember him as an overweight older man wearing fancy clothes, always puffing away at his cigar with drink in tow. I’ve come to appreciate his many characteristics, always funny & full of interesting shenanigans! Now I know why he was such a well-known legend! I’m really enjoying these short films he was obviously known for; some of his actions, antidotes & gags will cause me to burst out in laughter ~ (I wonder how many of his skits were pure ad-lib) ~ Thx a million!
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.
They've been searching for the ball for 20 minutes and the group ahead isn't off the green yet. I'd go ahead and hit also.
love watching older films that i otherwise would never considered seeing. considering i was born 70 years after this film😂😂
Love these pre code movies. You can practically get away everything in those.
Not just pre code, but pre WOKE, LOL.
At 8:53 W C Fields lets out with, "Ah the hell with it." And the way he carries the patient around the room at 17:07 could put censors in an uproar.
My father really enjoyed WC Fields and we would watch his movies together. One of my favorite lines is - Not a fit night out for man or beast.
Mathew my favorite line of his...
Gimme my club...my Canadian Club. My father's drink of choice
"Any man who hates dogs and small children, can't be all baaad"
I remember watching this as a kid with my grandmother. It was probably a holiday and both of us laughed and laughed
At the beginning, they show what everybody had in their kitchens in the 1920s and early 1930s, an icebox, which we now call a refrigerator. I called it an icebox when I was a kid in the 1940s because that's what my parents called it, but we never had one, only the electric refrigerator. This is the first time I recall ever seeing how it operated: ice on top.
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"...
'The Fatal Glass of Beer' is also another great Fields short.
That scene when she has her legs wrapped around him reminded me of Carol Burnett and her shenanigans. Omgosh!! Sooooo hilarious!! I haven't laughed so much in years!!
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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Pizza, I could watch this condensed comedy over and over again. Those actresses, for some peculiar reasons, just screamed sexy! And W.C.'s ball drop off the shoulder blade is riotious. Well done! 🍕
I never went to school with WC fields. He was a great guy an an American movie icon . Just an all round great guy .
About 100 years later and still hilarious - that scene with the chick with her legs around his waist getting dragged around - how it got past the censors is a mystery...I love WC!
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 UA-cam
The unmistakable w c fields Yeah you proberly know this already . Incredible to think this film was made in the thirties w c fields was way ahead of his time Even today This film is as funny and fresh as ever so are all his other films. W C FIELDS being very funny and completly original I was born in 1958 I love this guy .Who was a master of his art a marvolous entertainer wonderfull
I've never seen WC Fields young like this. Pretty cool.
I first saw this during my freshman year of dental school. good training
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WC fields was nostalgic. This was the ERA i remember:)
Bring back these movies .
I remember watching this with my sister when we were very young. We thought it was hysterical. RIP Susan
When I was a kid, I enjoyed all the things my grand folks did, from T.V. to radio to vaudeville; not merely the contemporary programming available to me.
To this day, I enjoy an old radio program as much as anything recently done. I feel fortunate,
I'm not sure why.
Fields for example was a comedic master, long before my time, but
'comedy' for me anyway has no 'contemporary' meaning.
I can't say thank-you more sincerely enough to those of you who make it a point to post these critical treasures.
I have loved W.C. Fields since I was a kid. And I’m 61. I appreciate you posting this.❤️
" is he standing in a hole, no he just a small fella, send him in, I'll fix him "
PURE COMEDY GENUIS WC FIELDS
The golf scene was very hilarious! He's an original comedic genius.
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.
The actress that played the dental patient had a pair of the most beautiful long legs I had ever seen.
Great! Funny, racy, and with a lot of humanity. Some of the gags are telling of the times. The exchange "What is it? - Water. - No thanks." Is about Prohibition that was in force at the time. There are lots of things going on here, all clever, and a some things we don't pick up on now in a changed culture almost 100 years later. We're lucky to still have this film.
O.o
By the following year, 1933, prohibition was lifted.
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@buzzclick500 "It rusts pipes"
I was crying half way through this. WC was great then, and still great!
I remember reading about this film as a young kid and imagining it was like a skinimax film (I was 12). Years later I saw it and it was worth the wait, simply because it was so much better than I imagined.
So awesome funny as hell. W. C. was a genius. I wish he was here now. He would have so many fans that would love him. In all the world comedians. I would have loved to meet W. C., The Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Red Skelton and Harold Lloyd. Laurel and Hardy. Harry Langdon. These comedians were geniuses
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".
Gotta love Bud Jamieson from 3 stooges fame as his golf buddy.. didn't see him in the credits.. But Fields is just too funny.
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
Thank you for posting this. I was laughing so hard my stomach hurts. I needed that.
Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you. 🍕🍕🍕
Where are my glasses? They're on your head...Where's my newspaper? You're sitting on it. ....Where're my golf clubs? They're in your golf bag. Etc.---Love WC Fields.
Ur right!
A mean and nasty guy... on screen and in real life.
My grandfather was a dentist in Ohio around the same time as this short. Used to make house calls. I still have the box where he kept his drills.
My Grandfather had his own ice and coal business so my dad worked for him from age 14 till 17 when he joined the Navy. My grandmother and my mother even though it been years since my dad worked as an iceman used to joke about the iceman fathered their children people would be in shock till they said that the iceman was their husband. LOL I loved you posted this I needed a good laugh😂
Thank you for sharing this gem. These were old when I was new. Now that I’m old it’s like seeing an old friend again
So very true.
Well said
How old are you?
If I heard the dentist say "Hand me that circular buzzsaw," I'd be done outta there!
This is one of my favorite movies of all times.
it seems the scene where W. C. is “pulling” the lady’s tooth was cut by the censors - much too sexy for them! so glad you’ve uploaded this sketch!!!!!! :) 😸🐈🐾
That was no lady! That was Elise Cavanna.
When I had my wisdom teeth pulled the oral surgeon called me the next day to see how I was doing and I told him I was ok, but my chest hurt and he told me he had to climb on my chest to get leverage. My dad was a dentist and told me that wasn’t uncommon. Thank goodness for general anesthesia.
Before his career in movies, he was a world class juggler.
I saw this movie as a kid at a day camp for kids at a science museum. At the scene where the lady with the hat walked in, I still remember hearing a boy in the audience say, "That's Carol Burnett!"
Love these risque pre-code movies. :)
“Ah, the hell with her!”
No extra charge for the bedside manner.
He dead-lifted that 50 lb pound block of ice off of the floor! He was in pretty good shape at some point in his career.
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
Always funny no matter how many times I watch this. W.C. was one of a kind
Hello Theresa, How are you doing?
some of this was pretty suggestive for that period, he rocks! thanks .
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.
I remember watching this when I was about 10. Got told off for talking like him at school the next day.
1932. And it is funny and brilliant now. The mark of a comic genius.
loved these old movies as a kid & even more now. My Grandma was the same age as Elise Cavanna.. One thing I always thought would be great is if Elise starred in a movie with ZaSu Pitts they could play sisters.
That was hilarious! Thanks for posting. He really was a giant as far as comedy goes. I laughed so much and then I laughed again. 😅
Never mind where i told you to stand. Stand where I tell ya...
what a great little film , full of one liners
Last time I saw this was when I was about 8 and I spent the next day at school talking like him.
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.
One of the greatest film comedians ever.
One of the great classics!
My Boss and I are at Work watching This and Crying! 😂😂😂!
W.C. fields,# funny hilarious, I like it very much. Rare episodes.
15:56 - The assistant breaking character had me rolling!
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.
That WC Fields is sure an a cranky old goat, someone you would spend as little time with as possible, he would have very few friends, funny video though, did not know this Comedy Act existed, thanks You Tube.
That chunk of plaster that hits W.C. Fields at 15:57 wasn't supposed to be. Note how the patient hides the urge to laugh by covering her face with the scarf. W.C. cracks a grin but remains in character. Even the dental assistant turns her head away to save the film shot.
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.
Fields was brilliant!
Have you had that tooth pulled out before ? LOL
This is where I picked up a lot of my comedy tricks for the theater club I was in during high school and college.
One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. “That female wrestler gone?”
One of my favorites is My little Chickadee ...with him and Mae West 😂
I had my volume turned off, and forget this was a talkie, and still laughed my ass off. :)
True comedy, a lost art.
Think about how RISQUE this film was when the tall lady paitient wrapped her legs around WC Fields waist! Scandalous back then i bet.
That part of the scene was cut in later releases. The part where he says something like "to hell with her" is covered up by an extraneous moan in the same later releases. I think there was one other censored bit as well, but I can't remember what it was. This short was one of the films mentioned in "Hollywood Uncensored".
This is a recreation of Fields' old vaudeville act so there were lots of scantily dressed (for the time) women in his skits.
Part of the legacy of Earl Carroll and his vanities. Earl Carroll's chorus girls more nude than Ziegfeld"s.
It's pretty racy today.Could be Fleabag.
Fleabag?
W.C. Fields 1932: Oh, to hell with her! Priceless!!
Loved it when he said have you ever had this tooth before
judging by the mountains in the background of the golf course they're playing at Griffith Park Calif...people have been playing there since 1914....the beginnings of aviation also started close by in Glendale...the
Grand Central Airport opened in 1923 & it was instrumental in the development of aviation
in the (then) United States..
A great 86 year look back when golf clubs had hickory shafts, but the rules remain much the same as today. WC Fields was great... As the saying goes: "The more things change, the more they stay the same".
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.
The ducks laughing at his golf shots!! 😂
Great show. Cant get this quality anymore!!!!!
15:58 - The nurse tries to hide a slight snicker when the plaster hits Fields in the head.
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.
I just love Bud Jamison, he's absolutely brilliant!
This film has so many classic lines.
"Never mind what I told you to do! You do what I tell you!"
"This guy's so stupid he doesn't even know what time it is."
"What time is it?"
"I don't know."
Watching his assistant trying not to laugh is pretty fun too.
From 11:22 on Ms Cannova just exudes the grace of a dancer ,artist, because she was both,and then some❗❗her art was early influential...that 6 ' tall frame, beautiful soul/ face left an impression 👀❤️
She was a lovely free-spirit in real life.
The exaggerated make-up and expressions hide her unconventional beauty.
I challenge any Hollywood so called screenwriter to come up with a script that is one half the blue ribbon, superb, clever writing of a W.C. Fields flick. No writer now has the talent to match the "Reality" of these treasures. Whenever someone thinks of a person living forever they're usually thinking of entertainers like W.C. Fields. Wish he was still alive!!!! See what I'm saying?
W.C. a true gem. Thanks.
This is one of his best
the imperfect W.C. Fields was a complex and funny thespian 🎭
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
That tooth pulling sequence was a hoot! I was laughing my ass off as she had her legs wrapped around him and he's carrying her around
Greg LaPointe v
"Get your foot out of my pocket".
OMG...what a hoot❗❗❗looks👀body language thee funniest
At 15:57...no dialogue and hilarious 👋
Wow, When that female patient in the long dress moves her legs all over the place, it was very sensual. That actress has probably been dead for years yet here we are (in 2020) 88 years later having 'thoughts' about her. Isn't life strange?
Well, you can tell it's pre-Code starting at 17:00 when she wraps her legs around him!
Susan Sinclair, That female patient definitely had a talent with her legs. One wonders what Mitzi Gaynor or Juliet Prowse would have done with this role, given that they had the necessary credentials.
That actress is Elise Cavanna. She had been a professional dancer, who studied with Isadora Duncan, and later was in the Ziegfeld Follies.
This version was banned for many years, fyi...
At 9:51 you can tell W.C. Fields loves his work, then years later the censors ruined what was very natural.
THE CENSERS & CRITICS !!!SHOULD BE TAKEN OUT & SHOT !!!😂g
His golf partner is the same gent that is in many Three Stooges episodes. With WCF’s blood alcohol level, he should have lived a long time, being so well-preserved!
It was alcohol that killed him. His Cirrhosis was so severe he had a massive haemorrhage and choked in his own blood
SO FUNNY BRINGS HUGE LAUGHTER THANKS W.C.
Classic! Hand me the 404 Circular Buzzsaw. There ...that didn't hurt did it?
At least Fields used a RIFLE instead of a SHOTGUN for dental work.
(no not for real)
Some of the best, of the very best!
That was hilarious, I haven't watched a lot of Fields but that was great. Laughed all the way through.
9:47 part about the dog bite. So funny when he says while she's bent over "You're lucky it wasn't a Newfoundland dog that bit you" lmao,lol
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.
WC must have loved rehearsing that scene with the chick and her legs wrapped around his waist. BTW, she was an actual socialite in those days.
I wonder how many retakes they would have shot if the female patient had been Mitzi Gaynor or Juliet Prowse ?
This is one of the funniest movies ever.
8:23 Wow! Look at the height of that ceiling and the size of that window!
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.
Elise Cavanna was outstanding as the patient who knew how to use her legs. One wonders's how well Mitzi Gaynor and Juliet Prowse would have done in this role ?
They weren't straight enough
@@davidcaracappa8798 No, but their legs had all the curves in the right places.
Fields has a very fine grip & swing. He also said that we far more frequently vote against than we do "FORE !"
"Did you just come in for the ride"
Absolutely bloody brilliant!!!
WHAT A LEGEND!
R.C. Actually had a nice form and swing!
You've probably seen me at the horse show.
Jockey?
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You came for a ride?