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1. At the end of his life, Fields was hospitalized for his alcoholism.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Dec 25, 2023, 07:25 AM

Dec 2023

His best friend of many years, Eddie Cantor, came to visit. He found Fields intently going through a Bible. Cantor asked if he was "getting religion" at this stage of his life. Fields answered, no, he was "looking for an out clause".

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On this day, December 25, 1946, William Claude Dukenfield, aka W. C. Fields, died. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2023 OP

At the end of his life, Fields was hospitalized for his alcoholism. no_hypocrisy Dec 2023 #1