{"product_id":"man-on-the-flying-trapeze-the-life-and-times-of-w-c-fields-0393318400","title":"Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393318400\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Louvish, Simon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Fields] was his own greatest creation, and in Louvish, this complicated artist has finally found the biographer he deserves.\"-Malcolm Jones, Jr., Newsweek Man on the Flying Trapeze is the first biography in decades - and the only accurate one - of the beloved cinematic curmudgeon and inimitable comic genius W. C. Fields. Simon Louvish brilliantly sifts through evidence of Fields's own self-creation to illuminate the vaudeville world from which Fields sprang and his struggles with studios and censors to make his hilarious films-in the process confirming suspicions (yes, he did drink) and confounding them (he doted on his grandchildren). \"One of the best movie biographies to come along in quite some time. . . . [A] book to cherish.\"-Film Review \"[Man on the Flying Trapeze] nicely regales us with many vaudevillian stories. . . . Louvish does a heroic job.\"-Katharine Whittemore, New York Times Book Review \"A rapturous, giddy, and irrepressible book. . . . Let us be clear: this is a delight, a marvel of research . . . and a superb argument for the case that William Claude Dukenfield was, and is, the greatest comic the movies have given us.\"-David Thomson \"At last 'the Great Man' (as Fields called himself, accurately) has a great biography.\"-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Illustrated\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSimon Louvish | Actors | movies | biography\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51856099410208,"sku":"NEW0393318400","price":20.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61nwIxqpRnL.jpg?v=1781546797","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/man-on-the-flying-trapeze-the-life-and-times-of-w-c-fields-0393318400","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}