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FIELDS, WILLIAM C.

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FIELDS, WILLIAM C.
(1880 - 1946) Portly, red-nosed hard-drinking film and stage comedian, remembered for his roles in "David Copperfield" and "My Little Chickadee". Fine content A.L.S. "Grumpy Old Fields", 2pp. 4to., Los Angeles, Dec. 4, 1939 to his estranged mistress, Carlotta Douglas. Fields is bitter, and pulls no punches, writing in part: "…I can't write you sensible letters because you don't even take time to read them…you can't fool anyone, least of all me. You listen to some bums who tell you you are going to knock them in the aisles in Berlin, Paris moscow…you spend all your money, run off to N.Y. and when your poke is empty you appeal to me for a little help and advise which you never take. I feel like such a God damned fool for offering advice or even writing you…" Folds, else near fine. With holograph envelope.