Fields is happy enough in his shop but tormented at home. His wife and daughters drive him crazy (on
After preliminaries with ice and golf dentist Fields turns to the problems of hius patients. He wres
Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only pove
Egbert Souse, "accent grave over the e", henpecked by his whole family, is recruited to replace a dr
New ocean liner S.S. Gigantic is about to race its rival, the Colossal. Gigantic owner T.F. Bellows
The owner of a general store (Harold Bisonette) is hounded by his status-anxious wife ("That's 'Bee-
At a Florida hotel, absconding miscreant J. Effingham Bellweather goes slapstick golfing with the ho
The Great McGonigle's traveling theatrical troupe are staying at a boarding house. They are preparin
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the Olympics. Either a masterpiece
Ambrose Wolfinger wants the afternoon off (his first in twenty-five years) to go to a wrestling matc
Fields wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, b
Professor Wong has invented a television machine and invites everyone to see it at China's Internati
This is Fields' first movie. a one-reeler (10-15 minutes depending on frames per second), it stars F
W.C. Fields cultivated the persona of a misanthropic cynic and many found it hard to tell where the
Barber O'Hair has a vegetarian wife at home a pretty manicurist at work. A dog sits in the barbersho
Rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, Flower Belle Lee is run out of Little
Mr. Snavely, a Yukon prospector, lost his only son years ago to the temptations of the big city; now