W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen: Becoming a Character Comedian (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History) - Image 1

£87.58

MACMILLAN W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen: Becoming a Character Comedian (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)

Name: W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen: Becoming a Character Comedian (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
Brand: MACMILLAN
Price: 87.58 GBP
Availability: InStock

History & Criticism

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£88 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 63 days · 63 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 63 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £88 (63 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £88 - £88

Price levels: 1 different prices over 63 days

Description

This book reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway’s most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies. As the first biography to use the recently opened Fields Papers at the Motion Picture Academy, the book explores how Fields years as a Follies entertainer portraying a beleaguered husband and a captivating conman became a landmark turning point in his career, leading to his fame as a masterful film comedian. The book also untangles a web of mysteries about Fields’s turbulent private life, from the heartrending stories about the tragic relationship with his calculating wife who refused to divorce him, to his estranged son controlled by his mother, to the seven-year extra-marital affair with a chorus girl that led to the birth of an unwanted child. This electrifying saga illuminates a complex dual personality, whirling from tenderness to brusqueness, who endured so much anguish in order to bring the gift of laughter to millions. Although vilified by Ziegfeld and assailed by demons, Fields survived the cutthroat rigors of Broadway show biz to become a legendary American iconoclast and cultural icon.

Product Specifications

Brand: MACMILLAN
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1349956953
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Film > History & Criticism
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 July 2018
Listed Since: 11 October 2018

Barcode

No barcode data available

MACMILLAN W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen: Becoming a Character Comedian (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

William B. Gill: From the Goldfields to Broadway: 3 (Forgotten Stars of the Musical Theatre)

Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers)

Henry James on Stage and Screen

The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486–280

The Forms of Michael Field (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)

Divine Play, Sacred Laughter, and Spiritual Understanding

Dion Boucicault: Irish Identity on Stage

Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism: The Rise of Hollywood's Gods

Actresses and Whores: On Stage and in Society

Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers (Palgrave Studies in Comedy)

Ava Gardner: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts)

Bertolt Brecht: Chaos, according to Plan (Directors in Perspective)

Because I Tell a Joke or Two: Comedy, Politics and Social Difference

Theatre History and Historiography: Ethics, Evidence and Truth

Mary Pickford: Hollywood and the New Woman (Lives of American Women)

WILDE NOW: Performance, Celebrity and Intermediality in Oscar Wilde (Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature)

F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Literary Life

The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin: Artistry in Motion

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context (Literature in Context)

Catullus and Roman Comedy: Theatricality and Personal Drama in the Late Republic

Comedy in Crises: Weaponising Humour in Contemporary Art (Palgrave Studies in Comedy)

John Cassavetes in Person

Chaplin and American Culture: The Evolution of a Star Image

Circus and the Avant-Gardes: History, Imaginary, Innovation (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)