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Author:
Wertheim, Arthur Frank, 1935- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83015315
Title:
W. C. Fields from burlesque and vaudeville to Broadway : becoming a comedian / Arthur Frank Wertheim.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan2014
Copyright Date:
©2014
Description:
xxv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Fields, W. C.--(William Claude),--1880-1946.
Fields, W. C.--(William Claude),--1880-1946.
Comedians--United States--Biography.
Entertainers--United States--Biography.
Burlesque (Theater)--United States--Biography.
Vaudeville--United States--Biography.
Theater--New York--New York--Biography.
Burlesque (Theater)
Comedians.
Entertainers.
Theater.
Vaudeville.
New York (State)--New York.
United States.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The fledgling years. Meet the Dukenfields -- Life with father -- The training ground. The tramp juggler -- Initiation rites -- The sly conjurer -- The big time -- "All the world's a stage". A master pantomimist -- My art never satisfies me -- To the antipodes -- The trouper on the flying trapeze -- The ham tree -- What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. -- The breakup -- The affair -- The labyrinth to the Ziegfeld Follies. The road to the Palace -- The second home -- "They had me sweating blood" -- Backstabbed -- Epilogue.
Series:
Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
ISBN:
1137300663
9781137300669
OCLC:
(OCoLC)890011220
LCCN:
2014026632
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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