My paternal grandfather, W.C. Fields, the father of my dear father W.C. Fields, Jr., is my spiritual inspiration.  By mere happy accident of birth, I take it as my profound and humble responsibility to ensure that younger generations and generations to come know the joy and comfort W.C. Fields Art through Humor brings to the human condition.

See the website for my grandfather, W.C. Fields:  https://www.wcfields.com

My first foray as creator/ producer Off Broadway

New York City, American Theatre of Actors, December 21, 2015, first performance of “The Real Transcript of W.C. Fields Murder Trial (of a Canary), 1928” in the actual courtroom of the Trial.

NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY NOMINATIONS 2024 due August 15

Let’s all add MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE (1935) as the next W.C. Fields Film to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. A portrait of family life in all its travails in W.C. Fields inimitable sweetness and gentleness, and keen insights into the human condition. Nomination form on www.wcfields.com scroll to left and down and on 

https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/nominate/

     (Click on second live link “Nominations…2024 National Film Registry”)

You can nominate up to 50 films. Another suggestion, the 1935 version of DAVID COPPERFIELD with W.C. FIELDS as Micawber. It is opined Charles Dickens must have had W.C. Fields in mind for this role.  YOU’RE TELLING ME (1934) the talking version of ‘So’s Your Old Man’ on the National Film Registry since 2008.  Plus, nominate your favorite W.C. Fields FILMS!

 DAVID COPPERFIELD (1935) with W.C. Fields as Wilkins Micawber. My dear father, W. Claude Fields, Jr., and I met George Cukor, Director of ‘David Copperfield’, who told us that W.C. Fields was the “nicest sweetest person he has ever worked with”. Cukor has said he did not have to direct W.C. Fields for he “inhabited Micawber”.  

1935

                             W.C. Fields as Wilkins Micawber in David Copperfield (1935 version)

Current W.C. Fields films on National Film Registry and date included – ‘The Bank Dick’ (1992); ‘So’s Your Old Man’ (2008); ‘It’s A Gift’ (2012).