W.C. Fields featured on TCM tonight

To celebrate the centennial of Mr. Fields's film career, they'll be showing three of his very best tonight.

The Bank Dick (8 pm ET)
It's a Gift (9:40 pm ET)
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (11 pm ET)

Then they'll round things out with the 1935 version of David Copperfield, featuring Fields as Mr. Micawber.

 

Of those, "It's a Gift" is my absolute favorite Fields film. The whole thing is great, but the porch scene is pure gold. "Carl LaFong, capital L, small a..." indeed.

 

The day I bought the DVDs was one of the happiest days of my life.

 

All good, but my favorite feel-good Fields' film is "If I Had a Million".

John

 

I'll be recording these.

 

He was definitely one heck of a character, on screen and off.

 

"...Never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump..."

 

I never saw The Bank Dick before now. How did that happen? I've seen the next two. I'm recording tonight too. Classic and thanks for the heads up.

 

Huge fan here, I have an extensive collection of his stuff.

 

These movies were shown in Rep houses continually when I was a teenager in the late sixties and seventies in SF. Fabulous stuff. I'm so grateful that Turner keeps these things alive.

 

I watched The Bank Dick with two friends who had never seen it & who were a bit hostile to the idea of watching a B&W movie of any sort.

A half hour in - and they had become fans!!

Ol' W.C., he's still got it!

 

Love W.C.
I read a book about him many years ago.
It was written by his wife or girlfriend.
She told a great story about taking singing lessons.
She came home and sang something for W.C and asked his opinion
of her performance.
He replied..
My dear, you sound like a monsoon whistling up an aardvark's a@@hole.
I always loved that line.
Glen