Tonight at the Film Forum: Two W.C. Fields Silents by Trav S.D.

Tonight at 7pm at New York’s Film Forum, two early silent films by  W.C. Fields.  The meat of the evening is Fields’ first silent feature Sally of the Sawdust (1925).  This film was based on Fields’ hit Broadway stage musical Poppy, in which he created the role Eustice McGargle, the florid-tongued, top-hatted 19th century mountebank, variations of which […]

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