Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields

"[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 a...