It's a Gift is Norman McLeod's classic comedy of disasters, in which W.C. Fields plays a general-store proprietor who buys an orange-ranch by mail and transports his family to California. This study features a brief production history and detailed filmography.
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It's a Gift is Norman McLeod's classic comedy of disasters, in which W.C. Fields plays a general-store proprietor who buys an orange-ranch by mail and transports his family to California. This study features a brief production history and detailed filmography.
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Add this copy of It's a Gift to cart. $12.50, very good condition, Sold by Bison Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from winnipeg, MB, CANADA, published 1994 by British Film Institute.
Add this copy of It's a Gift to cart. $15.71, good condition, Sold by Hollywood Canteen rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Toronto, ON, CANADA, published 1994 by bfi.
Add this copy of "It's a Gift" (Bfi Film Classics) to cart. $16.53, very good condition, Sold by Halcyon Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from LONDON, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1994 by British Film Institute.
Add this copy of It's a Gift to cart. $30.00, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by British Film Institute.
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London. 1994. British Film Institute. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0851704727. BFI Film Classics. 96 pages. paperback. keywords: Film. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Harold Bissonette (‘pronounced Bissonay') owns a small-town grocery store in New Jersey, running the daily gauntlet of his nagging wife, demanding daughter, loud mouthed son, prudish townspeople, blind or just plain ornery customers, and of course, Baby LeRoy. But when his rich uncle Bean dies, Harold can at last realise his dream of owning an orange grove in California. From this unpromising material the genius of W. C. Fields fashioned one of the most sheerly funny comedies Hollywood has ever produced. In it, the Fields persona was honed to perfection: the misanthropic curmudgeon, nursing his small triumphs over the women and small children who beset him, managing, however improbably, to transorm disaster into success. Simon Louvish has performed a splendid work of excavation in tracing back the origins in Fields' stage work of the wonderful set pieces from which the film is constructed. But in dissecting the origins and techniques of the routines, Louvish does not murder the comedy, for his descriptions of Fields at work recreate the joy of watching the most anarchic and original comic Hollywood ever discovered. inventory #34837.
Add this copy of It's a Gift (Bfi Film Classics) to cart. $40.00, very good condition, Sold by Aladdin Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fullerton, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by British Film Institute (BFI).
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Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. 1st Printing. INSCRIBED by Louvish to author Will Fowler (son of Gene): "For Will Fowler / who was there! ! / Best wishes! / Simon Louvish" on first page of text in upper margin. Very good with lightly used covers. No other markings. Fowler would have been 12 years old when IT'S A GIFT was released. His father, Gene, author of MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING, was a friend of W.C. Fields.
Add this copy of It's a Gift to cart. $45.86, very good condition, Sold by RARE BOOK CELLAR rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pomona, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by British Film Institute.
