W. C. Fields

**William Claude Dukenfield** () yang lebih dikenal sebagai **W. C. Fields**, adalah seorang pelawak, pemeran, juggler, dan penulis Amerika Serikat. Pesona komika Fields masih menjadi karakter khasnya.

## Referensi

## Bacaan tambahan
### Artikel
* "The Man Who Juggles", *[[New York Star (1908–1936)|The New York Star]]* (December 19, 1908)
* "At the Ziegfeld Follies: Various Entertainers in the Big Show, as Seen by the THEATRE MAGAZINE'S Artist", *Theatre Magazine* (October 1921)
* "Funnyman W. C. Fields Has His Own Way of Keeping Himself Fit", *[[Life (magazine)|Life]]* (May 12, 1941), pp.&nbsp;104–106, 109
* "W. C. Fields: The red-nosed, raspy-voiced funnyman, who never gave a sucker an even break, dies on Christmas Day", *Life* (January 6, 1947), pp.&nbsp;63–64, 66
* Jan Kindler, "Elysian Fields", *[[Playboy]]* (March 1969)

### Buku

* W. C. Fields, *Fields for President* (1940, 1971) Dodd, Mead . (Humorous essays about Fields's stance on marriage, politics, finance, etc.)
* Robert Lewis Taylor, *W. C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes* (1949) Doubleday & Co., (1967) New American Library . (First book biography, with many firsthand quotes from friends and colleagues)
* Gene Fowler, *Minutes of the Last Meeting* (1954) Viking Press
* Eddie Cantor, *As I Remember Them* (1963) Duell, Sloan & Pearce
* Donald Deschner (ed.), *The Films of W. C. Fields* (1966, 2000) Citadel Press
* Corey Ford, "The One and Only W. C. Fields" from *The Time of Laughter* (1967) Little, Brown
* William K. Everson, *The Art of W. C. Fields* (1967) Random House . (First book-length examination of the Fields films)
* Richard J. Anobile (ed.), *Drat!: Being the Encapsulated View of Life by W. C. Fields in His Own Words* (1968) World Publishing
* David Robinson, *The Great Funnies: A History of Film Comedy* (1969) E.P. Dutton
* Bosley Crowther, "W. C. Fields Comedy Festival" from *New York Times Film Reviews, 1959–1968* (1970) Arno Press
* Andre Sennwald, capsule reviews from *New York Times Film Reviews, 1932–1938* (1970) Arno Press
* Raymond Durgnat, "Suckers and Soaks" from *The Crazy Mirror: Hollywood Comedy and the American Image* (1970) Dell Publishing
* Andrew Bergman, "Some Anarcho-Nihilist Laff Riots" from *We're in the Money: Depression America and Its Films* (1971) New York University Press
* Otis Ferguson, "The Great McGonigle" from *The Film Criticism of Otis Ferguson* (1971) Temple University Press
* Carlotta Monti (with Cy Rice), *W. C. Fields and Me* (1971) Prentice-Hall, . (basis of the 1976 film starring Rod Steiger)
* Richard J, Anobile (ed.), *A Flask of Fields: Verbal and Visual Gems from the Films of W. C. Fields* (1972) W.W. Norton
* Leonard Maltin, *Selected Short Subjects* (first published as *The Great Movie Shorts*, 1972) Crown Publishers, (revised 1983) Da Capo Press
* Ronald J. Fields (ed.), *W. C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts and Articles* (1973) Prentice-Hall .
* W. C. Fields (with Charles Grayson), *The Bank Dick* (1973) Simon & Schuster (the August 22, 1940 screenplay)
* W. C. Fields (with John T. Neville, et al.), *Never Give a Sucker an Even Break* (Rupert Hughes, et al.) *Tillie and Gus* (1973) Simon & Schuster (Continuity scripts derived from these films)
* Penelope Gilliatt, "To W. C. Fields, Dyspeptic Mumbler, Who Invented His Own Way Out" from *Unholy Fools: Wits, Comics, Disturbers of the Peace* (1973) Viking Press
* Gerald Mast, *The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies* (1973, 2nd ed. 1979) University of Chicago Press
* Donald W. McCaffrey, "The Latter-Day Falstaff" from *The Golden Age of Sound Comedy* (1973) A.S. Barnes
* Nicholas Yanni, *W. C. Fields* (1974) Pyramid Library
* Richard J. Anobile (ed.), *Godfrey Daniels!: Verbal and Visual Gems from the Short Films of W. C. Fields* (1975) Crown
* Walter Kerr, *The Silent Clowns* (1975) Alfred A. Knopf, (1990) Da Capo Press
* Stuart Byron and Elizabeth Weis (eds.), *The National Society of Film Critics on Movie Comedy* (1977) Grossman/Viking
* Leonard Maltin, *The Great Movie Comedians* (1978) Crown
* Will Fowler, *The Second Handshake* (1980) Lyle Stuart
* Louise Brooks, "The Other Face of W. C. Fields" from *Lulu in Hollywood* (1982) Alfred A. Knopf
* Ronald J. Fields, *W. C. Fields: A Life on Film* (1984) St. Martin's Press
* Wes D. Gehring, *W. C. Fields: A Bio-Bibliography* (1984) Greenwood Press
* Gerald Weales, *Canned Goods as Caviar: American Film Comedy of the 1930s* (1985) University of Chicago Press
* David T. Rocks, *W. C. Fields: An Annotated Guide* (1993) McFarland & Co.
* Wes D. Gehring, *Groucho and W. C. Fields: Huckster Comedians* (1994) University Press of Mississippi
* Simon Louvish, *It's a Gift* (1994) British Film Institute
* Simon Louvish, *Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields* (1999) Faber & Faber . (New biography with new research)
* Ronald J. Fields with Shaun O'L. Higgins, *Never Give a Sucker an Even Break: W. C. Fields on Business* (2000) Prentice-Hall
* James Curtis, *W. C. Fields: A Biography* (2003) Alfred A. Knopf . (*The* definitive, comprehensive biography, with many "apocryphal" stories from previous bios corrected)
* Scott MacGillivray and Jan MacGillivray, *[[Gloria Jean]]: A Little Bit of Heaven* (2005) iUniverse . (Authorized biography with recollections of Fields at work)
* Wes D. Gehring, *Film Clowns of the Depression* (2007) McFarland & Co.
* Gregory William Mank (et al.), *Hollywood's Hellfire Club* (2007) Feral House
* Arthur Frank Wertheim. *W. C. Fields from Burlesque and Vaudeville to Broadway: Becoming a Comedian* (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). xxvi, 264 pp.
* James L. Neibaur, *The W. C. Fields Films* (2017) McFarland and Co.

## Pranala luar

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* Official fan club
* Criterion Collection essay by Dennis Perrin on ''W. C. Fields: Six Short Films'' 
* Bibliography
* W. C. Fields's first show for the Chase And Sanborn Hour 1937-05-09 (01) Guest – Ann Harding