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The Old Fashioned Way (1934) William Beaudine, W.C. Fields, Joe Morrison, Baby LeRoy
The Great McGonigle’s traveling theatrical troupe are staying at a boarding house Read More »
Six of a Kind (1934) Leo McCarey, Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, W.C. Fields
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and thier Great Dane. Read More »
My Little Chickadee (1940) Edward F. Cline, Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia
Rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, Flower Belle Lee is run out of Little Bend. Read More »
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) Mitchell Leisen, James P. Hogan, W.C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour
New ocean liner S.S. Gigantic is about to race its rival, the Colossal. Read More »
Tillie and Gus (1933) Francis Martin, W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy
Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt Read More »
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934) Norman Taurog, Pauline Lord, W.C. Fields, Zasu Pitts
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew Read More »
The Bank Dick (1940) Edward F. Cline, W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel
Egbert Sousé leads an ordinary life but is about to have an extraordinary day. Read More »
Sally of the Sawdust (1925) D.W. Griffith, Carol Dempster, W.C. Fields, Alfred Lunt
Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. Read More »
Running Wild (1927) Gregory La Cava, W.C. Fields, Marie Shotwell, Mary Brian
Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. Read More »
International House (1933) A. Edward Sutherland, W.C. Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Rudy Vallee
Professor Wong has invented a television and invites everyone to see it at China’s International House Hotel. Read More »
Her Majesty, Love (1931) William Dieterle, Marilyn Miller, Ben Lyon, W.C. Fields, Comedy, Drama, Musical
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred’s fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner. Read More »
Mississippi (1935) A. Edward Sutherland, Wesley Ruggles, Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Joan Bennett, Comedy, Musical
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart’s honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer Read More »
So’s Your Old Man (1926) Gregory La Cava, W.C. Fields, Alice Joyce, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Comedy
Poor glazier Sam Bisbee has invented break-proof glass. He intends to show it off to a convention of automobile men. Due to a mixup his car is switched with another and his demonstration toss of a brick simply breaks the car’s windshield. On the way home he thinks a woman is trying to commit suicide and so prevents her. The woman is really Princess Lescaboura, who arrives in Bisbee’s home town looking for him.
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You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939) George Marshall, W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Comedy
Larson E. Whipsnade runs a seedy circus which is perpetually in debt. His performers give him nothing but trouble, especially Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Meanwhile, Whipsnade’s son and daughter, Phineas and Vicky, attend a posh college. Vicky turns down her caddish but rich suitor Roger Bel-Goodie, but changes her mind when she learns of her father’s financial troubles. Will Vicky marry for money or succumb to the ventriloqual charm of Edgar Bergen? Will Whipsnade’s Circus Giganticus make it over the state line one jump ahead of the sheriff?
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