#wc fields

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Alice in Wonderland | 1933

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W. C. Fields born January 29, 1880 in Darby, Pennsylvania

🎞 American actor, comedian, juggler and writer who began his career in vaudeville.

Among his trademarks were his physical comedy, raspy drawl, large nose, and grandiloquent vocabulary. His film and radio persona was generally identified with Fields himself. It was maintained by the publicity departments at Fields's studios Paramount and Universal. (d. 1946)

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The Photostory Books of Richard J. Anobile (Books, Richard J. Anobile, 1968-1982)

The sort of thing people had before home video became ubiquitous. You can digitally borrow them here.

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Margaret Hamilton & W.C. Fields

My Little Chickadee (1940)

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poppin hoppies

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Seein' Stars Daily Comic Panel (Dec14th1940)

With W.C. Fields, Vincent Price And Virginia Field

Original Art

Art by Feg Murray

King Features Syndicate

From Heritage Auctions...

Frederic "Feg" Murray delivers spot-on portraits of comedian Fields (from 1940's The Bank Dick) and Hudson's Bay stars Vincent Price and Virginia Field for this vivid installment of the Hollywood cartoon feature Seein' Stars, with anecdotes concerning the actors' current/forthcoming pictures. An Olympian Bronze Medalist of the 1920s, Murray devoted his post-athletic career to cartooning. This example is one of the last installmentsweekday of Seein' Stars. Murray switched to a Sundays-only schedule around 1941, continuing the weekly schedule until 1951.

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Except for Fields everyone is having a good time on “The Charlie McCarthy Show” in 1939.

Pictured: W.C. Fields, conductor Robert Armbruster, Nelson Eddy, Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen, Dorothy Lamour, and Don Ameche

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Screenland magazine, March 1938

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) took 3 years, 750 artists, and nearly 2 million separate paintings to complete. The approximately 750 artists comprised about 32 animators, 102 assistant animators, 167 'in-betweeners,' 20 layout artists, 25 watercolour background artists, 65 effects animators, and 158 female inkers and painters.

Disney famously undervalued(s) the work of these artists and used the profits from Snow White to expand the studio and install luxuries such as a restaurant, gym, steam room etc that were only accessible to a very limited group of executives and head writers/animators. Individual departments were segregated from one another and heavily policed against fratranisation or perceived slights to the company. Employees were expected to work long overtime without compensation and the pay renumeration scheme was uneven and disorganised, with workers being paid substantially more or less for the same work due to internal politics and/or disorganisation. All this led to the animator's strike of 1941, which of course featured placards of the highest quality:

This photo likely shows John Garfield supporting the protest!

The animators were eventually allowed to form a union to protect their rights moving forward.