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 ...

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, located in the celebrity-filled Laughlin Park neighborhood, is ...

An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. For years the rule among biographers has been "the bigger the better." Lately there has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Legend has it that W.C. Fields said, “Anyone who hates babies and dogs can’t be all bad.” While it’s debatable if the famed comic actually uttered those words, he wouldn’t have meant it, says his ...

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, ...