On this day, December 25, 1946, W. C. Fields died.

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4. Doubt it was true about his not liking kids. Jackie Coogan was the kid he "kicked" in the ass.

Fields said he wondered if he could get away with kicking a kid on screen.

Coogan said he wasn't kicked or touched in any way. He just dove onto a mat at the same time as Fields moved his foot to simulate a kick. AND

Coogan said his time making the film with Fields - Fields was fun to be with.

However, his own offspring said he wasn't the best father. Drink could account for that.



Interesting.... Fields, during his vaudeville time, went touring from town to town. He always worried about being broke in some town. So he opened up bank accounts in every town he went to and put 5 or 10 dollars in the accounts. Then he said he forget where most of the banks were. By the time he was in film, there were no more trips to the small and middle sized cites so the money probably was confiscated by the states or lost in bank foreclosures during the depression.