Last of the Moe Haircuts (The Influence of The Three Stooges on Twentieth-Century Culture)
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W. C. FIELDS STRAIGHT UP
| Air Date/Released | Saturday, November 30, 1985 |
|---|---|
| Station/Studio | PBS / Whyaduck Productions |
| Featuring | Shemp Howard (Solo) |
Excellent, detailed look at the life and career of W. C. Fields, co-produced by his grandson, historian and author Ronald J. Fields. Features clips from INTERNATIONAL HOUSE (1933), MY LITTLE CHICKADEE (1940), TILLIE AND GUS (1933), THE BANK DICK (1940), NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK (1941), THE MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE (1935), YOU CAN’T CHEAT AN HONEST MAN (1939), IT’S A GIFT (1934), SIX OF A KIND (1934), MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH (1934), THE FATAL GLASS OF BEER (1933), POPPY (1936), THE OLD FASHIONED WAY (1934), HER MAJESTY, LOVE (1931), DAVID COPPERFIELD (1935), ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1933), THE BIG BROADCAST OF 1938 (1938), MISSISSIPPI (1935), HOLLYWOOD ON PARADE (1934), THE BARBER SHOP (1933), THE DENTIST (1932), IT’S THE OLD ARMY GAME (1926), SO’S YOUR OLD MAN (1926), IF I HAD A MILLION (1932), MILLION DOLLAR LEGS (1932) and YOU’RE TELLING ME! (1934).
Shemp Howard is seen in clips from THE BANK DICK (1940).
The documentary won an Emmy Award in 1986 for “Outstanding Informational Special.”
Cast: Dudley Moore (Narrator), Gloria Jean, Leonard Maltin, Ronald J. Fields, Will Fowler, ‘Baby’ LeRoy Overacker (audio), Harry Caplan, Teet Carle, Doris Vinton, Madge Kennedy, William LeBaron (audio), Mack Sennett (audio), Joseph L. Mankiewicz, George Cukor, Edgar Bergen (audio), Everett Freeman
Cast, archive footage: Franklin Pangborn, Morgan Wallace, Bobby Larson, Jan Duggan, Margaret Dumont, Susan Miller, Kathleen Howard, Gloria Jean, Alison Skipworth, Zasu Pitts, Pauline Lord, Cora Witherspoon, Jessie Ralph, Evelyn del Rio, Reed Hadley, Heather Wilde, Carol Dempster, Marilyn Miller, Charlotte Henry, Mae West, Russell Hicks, Shemp Howard, Tammany Young, George Offerman Jr., Judith Allen, Catherine Doucet, Carlotta Monti, James Burke, Baby LeRoy, Julia Griffith, Jean Rouverol, Tommy Bupp, William ‘Shorty’ Blanche, Nora Cecil, Allen Wood, Rochelle Hudson, Tom Kennedy, Granville Bates, Lynne Overman, T. Roy Barnes, Diana Lewis, Josephine Whittell, John Sinclair, Zedna Farley, Elise Covanna, Bing Crosby, Stuart Erwin, Sari Maritza, Eddie Dunn, Grady Sutton, Mary Brian, Vera Lewis, Richard Carle, Freddie Bartholomew, Michael Visoroff, Charles Sellon, Walter Brennan, Irving Bacon, Mitchell Liasen, Mona Barrie, Leon Errol, Dorothy Haas, Dick Purcell, Byron Muson, Al Hill, Jack Clifford, Pat O’Malley, Pierre Watkin, Duke York, Edward Thomas, Joseph North
Crew: Joe Adamson (Director, Writer, Film Editor), Ronald J. Fields (Writer, Co-Producer), Robert B. Weide (Producer, Writer), Morey Muray, Paul Michon-Chadsey (Videotape Editors), Carl Byker, Bryan Heath (Associate Editors), Teresa Griley (Assistant Producer)
Cast: Dudley Moore (Narrator), Gloria Jean, Leonard Maltin, Ronald J. Fields, Will Fowler, ‘Baby’ LeRoy Overacker (audio), Harry Caplan, Teet Carle, Doris Vinton, Madge Kennedy, William LeBaron (audio), Mack Sennett (audio), Joseph L. Mankiewicz, George Cukor, Edgar Bergen (audio), Everett Freeman
Cast, archive footage: Franklin Pangborn, Morgan Wallace, Bobby Larson, Jan Duggan, Margaret Dumont, Susan Miller, Kathleen Howard, Gloria Jean, Alison Skipworth, Zasu Pitts, Pauline Lord, Cora Witherspoon, Jessie Ralph, Evelyn del Rio, Reed Hadley, Heather Wilde, Carol Dempster, Marilyn Miller, Charlotte Henry, Mae West, Russell Hicks, Shemp Howard, Tammany Young, George Offerman Jr., Judith Allen, Catherine Doucet, Carlotta Monti, James Burke, Baby LeRoy, Julia Griffith, Jean Rouverol, Tommy Bupp, William ‘Shorty’ Blanche, Nora Cecil, Allen Wood, Rochelle Hudson, Tom Kennedy, Granville Bates, Lynne Overman, T. Roy Barnes, Diana Lewis, Josephine Whittell, John Sinclair, Zedna Farley, Elise Covanna, Bing Crosby, Stuart Erwin, Sari Maritza, Eddie Dunn, Grady Sutton, Mary Brian, Vera Lewis, Richard Carle, Freddie Bartholomew, Michael Visoroff, Charles Sellon, Walter Brennan, Irving Bacon, Mitchell Liasen, Mona Barrie, Leon Errol, Dorothy Haas, Dick Purcell, Byron Muson, Al Hill, Jack Clifford, Pat O’Malley, Pierre Watkin, Duke York, Edward Thomas, Joseph North
Crew: Joe Adamson (Director, Writer, Film Editor), Ronald J. Fields (Writer, Co-Producer), Robert B. Weide (Producer, Writer), Morey Muray, Paul Michon-Chadsey (Videotape Editors), Carl Byker, Bryan Heath (Associate Editors), Teresa Griley (Assistant Producer)
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