GODFREY DANIEL! MOTHer of pearl! Simon Louvish wants to set the record straight on the life of W. C. Fields. In Man on the Flying Trapeze (564 pages. Norton. $29.95), Fields's latest biographer starts ...

byRobert Lewis Taylor. Doubleday, $3.50. A smartly written and most engaging account of the inimitable comedian and juggler, the sadistic W. C. Fields. For those who remember the great days of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It seems like back in the ‘60s and ‘70s, everybody on TV had a W.C. Fields impersonation. As a kid, I only knew the imitations and not how the already deceased comedian really ...

Exterior Screen grab from Todd Goodman / LA Light Photography. The famous Los Angeles home known as the W.C. Fields Estate has hit the California market for $15 million. The 8,010-square-foot house, ...

On my week off last month, I fulfilled a longtime wish by visiting two repertory movie houses in L.A., both of them owned by Quentin Tarantino: the New Beverly in the Fairfax District and the Vista ...

Hollywood history is up for grabs in Los Feliz, where the W.C. Fields estate — a 101-year-old Italianate mansion where the namesake comedian lived in the 1940s — just hit the market for $15 million.