Ad
related to: w c fields poppy
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Poppy is a 1936 comedy film starring W. C. Fields and Rochelle Hudson.The film was based on a 1923 stage revue of the same name starring Fields and Madge Kennedy.This was the second film version of the revue featuring Fields, following Sally of the Sawdust in 1925 with Carol Dempster in the title role.
William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 [1] – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American actor, comedian, juggler and writer. [2]Fields's career in show business began in vaudeville, where he attained international success as a silent juggler.
Poppy is a musical comedy in three acts with music by Stephen Jones and Arthur Samuels (additional music by John Egan), and lyrics and book by Dorothy Donnelly, with contributions also from Howard Dietz, W. C. Fields and Irving Caesar.
Sally of the Sawdust is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring W. C. Fields. It was based on the 1923 stage musical Poppy. [3] Fields would later star in a second film version, Poppy (1936).
During her peak years in the 1930s, notable roles for Hudson included Richard Cromwell’s love interest in the Will Rogers showcase Life Begins at 40 (1935), the daughter of carnival barker W.C. Fields in Poppy (1936), and Claudette Colbert’s adult daughter in Imitation of Life (1934).
Fields' preferred title for the film was The Great Man, which also had been his original title for The Bank Dick, but this title again was rejected by Universal. [3] [4] When the title was changed, Fields was afraid that "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" would not fit on theater marquees, and it would be abbreviated to "W. C. Fields - Sucker ...
Poppy, an American film starring Norma Talmadge; Poppy (1923 musical), a Broadway comedy starring W. C. Fields; Poppy, based on the 1923 musical and again starring W. C. Fields; Poppy, an Italian comedy film starring Walter Chiari "Poppy", a song from the album Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes by TV on the Radio
Poppy, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, starring W. C. Fields; The Prisoner of Shark Island, directed by John Ford, starring Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart; Private Number, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Loretta Young, Robert Taylor and Basil Rathbone