Things You Didn’t Know About W. C. Fields
His light seems to be dimming.
I know W. C. Fields more by reputation than by actually watching his work. If you look up some off his quotes you will see a distinct charactarization emerge. One that doesn’t like kids, loves to drink and doesn’t trust women.
From what I remember of his work, he was a better than fair comedian. Some of his more notable movies are: “My Little Chickadee,” “Then Bank Dick,” “Never Give A Sucker and Even Break,” and “You Can’t Cheat and Honest Man.”
Upon doing some more research about W. C. Fields, real name William Claude Dukenfield, here are some things I discovered:
1: His will had a strange provision.
It provided for the “W. C. Fields College for orphan white boys and girls, where no religion of any sort is to be preached.” That’s a lot to unpack. While it appears Fields might not have hated all kids he seemed pretty specific about what kids he wanted to help. But there’s more.
During his life, he had actually went out of his way to help blacks. There are a couple of theories as to why Fields had that strange provision in his will. Overall, it doesn't seem like a Mel Gibson/Jewish sort of thing.
