W. C. Fields

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q352971: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Sherlock, Jr. (1924).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Houdini: 1 line

  1. unmapped (borrowed magic bits) · through Sherlock, Jr. (1924), which they were tied to as vaudeville eccentric pool act: Houdini ⇒ Sherlock, Jr. (the host's read). The dream sequence let Keaton use vaudeville and Houdini-style magic bits in a movie grounded in reality.
    “there were magic bits that he knew from vaudeville, from Houdini and other magicians”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:53:54 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Merton of the Movies (stage play): 1 line

  1. lineage (possible source) · through Sherlock, Jr. (1924), which they were tied to as vaudeville eccentric pool act: Merton of the Movies (stage play) ⇒ Sherlock, Jr. (the host's read). Keaton had seen a satiric play that may have given him the idea of a story set around a movie theater.
    “there's a satiric play apparently called Merton of the movies.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:53:06 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Rudolph Valentino: 1 line

  1. unmapped (namesake) · through Sherlock, Jr. (1924), which they were tied to as vaudeville eccentric pool act: Rudolph Valentino ⇒ Sherlock, Jr. (the host's read). The villain is called the Sheik after Valentino.
    “the sheik's so named because a la Rudolph Valentino.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 1:07:31 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

What's Up, Doc? (1972): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through Sherlock, Jr. (1924), which they were tied to as vaudeville eccentric pool act: Sherlock, Jr. ⇒ What's Up, Doc? (the host's read). The Chinese-dragon bicycle chase in What's Up, Doc? is a complete homage to the stag-party sequence.
    “The bicycled Chinese dragon sequence and what's up dog is complete homage to this sequence.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 1:38:39 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Robert Downey Jr. → W. C. Fields. Downey plays W.C. Fields to Harley, which stops the cute kid being annoying.
    “That's the thing this movie does write is he makes Downey Jr. WC Field to this kid.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 1:01:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (vaudeville pool): Sherlock, Jr. → W. C. Fields. Vaudevillians really could play pool; W. C. Fields had an eccentric pool bit in his act.
    “WC Fields also had a bit in his act where he did eccentric pool and he does them in some films.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 1:29:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.