Cast: W.C. Fields

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Charles Boyer · Rita Hayworth · Thomas Mitchell · Ginger Rogers

Synopsis A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.

Direction George Cukor

Cast Freddie Bartholomew · Frank Lawton · W.C. Fields · Roland Young

Synopsis England, 19th-century. When David's father dies, his mother remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel view on how to raise a child. When David's mother dies from grief, Murdstone sends David to London to work for a...

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Fred Astaire · Gene Kelly · Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney

Synopsis Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

Direction Clyde Bruckman

Cast W.C. Fields · Rosemary Theby · George Chandler · Richard Cramer

Synopsis Mr. Snavely, a Yukon prospector, lost his only son years ago to the temptations of the big city; now the prodigal Chester, released from prison, comes home to Ma and Pa. A parody of Yukon melodrama; includes the famous looking-out-the-door...

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Carol Dempster · W.C. Fields · Alfred Lunt · Erville Alderson

Synopsis Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Prof. McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of Judge Foster's friend, falls in...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch · Norman Taurog · Norman Z. McLeod · William A. Seiter

Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Laughton · George Raft · Jack Oakie

Synopsis Buoyant, star-studded comedy about a dying steel tycoon (Richard Bennett) who randomly selects eight people from a phone book and gives them each a million dollars. Among the lucky recipients are a clumsy china salesman (Charles Ruggles), a working girl...

Direction Robert Youngson

Cast Clark Gable · Greta Garbo · Jean Harlow · Cary Grant

Synopsis A compilation of scenes from classic MGM comedies from the silent era up to 1948's "A Southern Yankee." Among the films showcased are "The Thin Man," "A Night at the Opera," "Dinner at Eight" and "Bonnie Scotland."

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland · W.C. Fields · George Burns

Synopsis The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and thier great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney...

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Charlotte Henry · Leon Errol · Louise Fazenda · Ford Sterling

Synopsis On a boring winter afternoon, Alice dreams, that she's visiting the land behind the mirror. This turns out to be a surrealistic nightmare, with all sorts of strange things happening to her, like changing her size or playing croquet with...

Direction Edward F. Cline

Cast W.C. Fields · Gloria Jean · Leon Errol · Billy Lenhart

Synopsis Fields wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beat up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. He becomes his niece's guardian when her mother is killed...

Direction Edward F. Cline

Cast W.C. Fields · Cora Witherspoon · Una Merkel · Evelyn Del Rio

Direction Edward F. Cline

Cast Mae West · W.C. Fields · Joseph Calleia · Dick Foran

Synopsis Rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, Flower Belle Lee is run out of Little Bend. On the train she meets con man Cuthbert J. Twillie and pretends to marry him for "respectability." Arrived in Greasewood City with...

Direction Edwin Middleton

Cast W.C. Fields · Marian West · Larry Westford · Bud Ross

Synopsis Two ardent suitors for the hand a pretty young woman carry their fight from an picnic to a test of skill in an indoor pool hall. After a series of unbelievable trick shots, the fight degenerates into billiard throwing, which...

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast W.C. Fields · Kathleen Howard · Jean Rouverol · Julian Madison

Direction Edward F. Cline

Cast Jack Oakie · W.C. Fields · Andy Clyde · Lyda Roberti

Synopsis A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money. Either a masterpiece of absurdity or a triumph of satire, depending on your mood, but it's quite...

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast George Raft · Vera Zorina · Grace McDonald · Charley Grapewin

Synopsis During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at...

Direction E. Mason Hopper

Cast Marion Davies · Holbrook Blinn · Harrison Ford II · Macklyn Arbuckle

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast W.C. Fields · Peggy Hopkins Joyce · Rudy Vallee · Stuart Erwin

Synopsis Professor Wong has invented a television machine and invites everyone to see it at China's International House Hotel. Every time Tommy Nash attempts to wed his fiancée Carol Fortescue he comes down with an illness, and when he breaks out...

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast W.C. Fields · Louise Brooks · Blanche Ring · William Gaxton

Direction A. Edward Sutherland · Wesley Ruggles

Cast Bing Crosby · W.C. Fields · Joan Bennett · Gail Patrick