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William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 [1] – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American actor, comedian, juggler and writer. [2]Fields's career in show business began in vaudeville, where he attained international success as a silent juggler.
As with his early films, Pool Sharks was intended to highlight a pool ball juggling act that featured in the actor's vaudeville show. In the final film, however, there is only a brief shot of Fields juggling several billiard balls, as his act was largely replaced with several poorly edited stop motion sequences depicting impossible shots, such ...
McGonigle's juggling act seen in the film affords a rare opportunity to observe Fields's own juggling talent—his famous vaudeville specialty—as he juggles airborne balls and cigar boxes. In this bit, Fields looks relatively fit and slim, in contrast to the plumper look that became part of his trademark in later years.
Cigar box manipulation was developed as a vaudeville act in the United States between the 1880s and 1920s, and was popularized by W. C. Fields. [1] Originally, performers would take actual boxes that cigars were stored in and nail them shut to create their juggling props.
Decorated as and named W. C. Fields, Shannon's machine used grooved cups/tracks instead of sensors or feedback. [3] Shannon also devised a juggling theorem . In 1989 Martin Bühler and Daniel E. Koditschek produced a juggler with one rotating bar, moving one way then the other, that bounces two-props in a fountain of indefinite length.
W.C. Fields – Actor and vaudeville performer [9] The Flying Karamazov Brothers – juggling and comedy troupe who have been performing since 1973; Jason Garfield – president of the World Juggling Federation; Anthony Gatto – holds various world records for numbers of balls juggled, considered by many to be the world's greatest juggler.
Six of a Kind is an American 1934 pre-Code comedy film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, W.C. Fields, George Burns, and Gracie Allen. [1]A critical and box office success, Six of a Kind features the famous pocket billiards (pool) playing scene in which Fields explains how he got the name “Honest John”.
It's the Old Army Game 1925 advertisement. It's the Old Army Game is a 1926 American silent comedy film starring W. C. Fields and Louise Brooks.The film was directed by Eddie Sutherland and co-stars Sutherland's aunt, the stage actress Blanche Ring in one of her few silent film appearances.