Vol. 2 COMEDY CLASSICS

The story of the rise of W.C. Fields from being the world’s top comedy juggler into a film star in later life is absorbing. It features many comic clips and details about this amazing character. For a special interview he is even forced to drink.... water!!!

Edgar Bergen was America’s top comedy ventriloquist, and hosted a hugely successful radio series with all the top film stars, here including Marilyn Monroe, Abbott & Costello and Edward Everett Horton.

This fascinating documentary follows Fields through his varied and popular screen characters. It follows his thoughts on children (‘I like children.... but couldn’t eat a whole one’) the weird names he called people and his fantastic tall stories. It tells us how he got his familiar ‘drawling’ speech pattern and explores his infamous duplicity, chicanery, or rascality - which ever you choose. It tells of his dependence on drink and his pity for those who did not get the enjoyment out of ‘a large libation’ that he clearly did.