'Start every day with a smile and get it over with'. Just one of the barbed witticisms that distinguished the comedian WC Fields' misanthropic humour. 'Start every day with a smile and get it over ...
On his deathbed, W.C. Fields, 66, for decades a relentless consumer of alcohol, confided to old friends: "I've often wondered how far I could have gone had I laid off the booze." The brilliant ...
When he was 12 years old, Ron Fields almost cracked up watching It’s a Gift on TV. He was laughing so hard he had to leave the room. “Wow,” he said when he had recovered. “W.C. Fields has to be the ...