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- 84 min
- Going For Grins, Not Gambling
- Four Make Four of A Kind in Tillie and Gus
- Aces All Around on The Mississippi
- More Dirty Dealing in My Little Chickadee
Born in 1880 in Pennsylvania, William Claude Dukenfieldmade his first entry into show business at the turn of the century as a juggler. He earned fame immediately for his ability to incorporate laughs into what were largely non-speaking performances simply by his expression or other physical gestures. Such would be the source of a lot of later humo...
Probably my favorite W.C. Fields poker scene — one I typically share with my "Poker in American Film and Culture" class — comes from the first feature-length talkie in which Fields had a starring role, Tillie and Gus(1933). Fields plays Augustus Q. Winterbottom, a con artist whom we first meet in the film on trial for having shot a man during a gam...
Besides being just plain funny, the scene in Tillie and Gus is a great one for illustrating both poker's earlier reputation as a "cheating game" and the game's social aspect, often serving as a ready way for strangers to meet and interact such as when traveling. In my class I pair the scene with the classic one from The Sting, a 1973 film set durin...
After a lengthy tenure with Paramount, toward the end of his career Fields moved over to Universal where he starred in such films as You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break(1941) which like other Fields films have titles that themselves suggest poker maxims. Hollywood icon Mae West, another vaudeville veteran, had...
A small-town seductress' romance with a masked bandit goes on hold when she's forced to marry a con artist. Cast & Crew. Read More. Edward F. Cline. Director. Mae West. Flower Belle Lee. W. C. Fields. Cuthbert J. Twillie. Joseph Calleia. Jeff Badger. Dick Foran. Wayne Carter. Ruth Donnelly. Aunt Lou. Photos & Videos. View All. Film Details. Genre.
- Edward F. Cline, Joseph Mcdonough
- Mae West
My Little Chickadee is a 1940 American comedy-western film starring Mae West and W. C. Fields, featuring Joseph Calleia, Ruth Donnelly, Margaret Hamilton, Donald Meek, Willard Robertson, Dick Foran, William B. Davidson, and Addison Richards, and released by Universal Pictures.
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- Edward F. Cline
- PG
My Little Chickadee Mae West W.C. Fields Joseph Calleia (1940) A city slicker (W.C. Fields) and his bride (Mae West) go west, where he becomes sheriff and she unmasks a bandit.
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Where to watch My Little Chickadee (1940) starring Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia and directed by Edward F. Cline. While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold.
