Today is the anniversary of the release of the classic W.C. Fields comedy Poppy (1936), directed by Eddie Sutherland. This film is based on the 1923-24 hit Broadway play that had been the true making of Fields’ career. It was with Poppy that Fields introduced the florid-tongued, top-hatted 19th century mountebank, Eustace McGargle, the lovable snake oil salesman, who […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:27AM on June 19, 2014