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    The Bank Dick, released as The Bank Detective in the United Kingdom, is a 1940 American comedy film starring W. C. Fields. Set in Lompoc, California, Fields...
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    Happen (1938), Heroes in Blue (1939), Irish Luck (1939), The Bank Dick (1940), and King of the Zombies (1941). Purcell was born in Greenwich, Connecticut...
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    W. C. Fields (category Members of The Lambs Club)
    synonym for a drunk] (The Bank Dick, 1940). Fields often contributed to the scripts of his films under unusual pseudonyms. They include the seemingly prosaic...
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    Rob Petrie on the CBS television sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show from 1961 to 1966, which made him a household name. He went on to star in the movie musicals...
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    spouse in the 1940 film The Bank Dick. John Springer and Jack Hamilton, authors of They Had Faces Then: Super Stars, Stars, and Starlets of the 1930s (1974)...
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    Arnold in The Wonder Years Stanley in The Stanley Parable Jeff Winger from Community Egbert Souse in Edward F. Cline's film The Bank Dick (1940) Look...
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  • one in the bank while McCallister is there making the transfer. McCallister realizes there are errors on the form and spots Dick. Finally, Dick holds McCallister...
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    appeared in many Preston Sturges movies as well as the W. C. Fields films International House, The Bank Dick, and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. For his...
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  • current role because the character was supposed to be very diminutive. In the sequences in "The Bank Dick" of a motion picture within the picture, Miss Wilde...
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    Fields in four films, The Pharmacist (1933), Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935), You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939), and The Bank Dick (1940). Film historian...
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    some of Fields' later works such as The Bank Dick, the film is perhaps the best example of the recurring theme of the Everyman battling against his domestic...
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    C. Fields character, Egbert Sousé, in the 1940 film The Bank Dick. Her film career went into decline during the 1940s, although she continued working...
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    appeared as a smooth-talking confidence man, or swindler as in the W.C. Fields film The Bank Dick (1940). Hicks played a variety of judges, corrupt officials...
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  • when going over his past. "NYPD Blue" Emission Accomplished (1993) NYPD Blue Season 2 Episode 21, "The Bank Dick" NYPD Blue Season 3 Episode 1, "E.R."...
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    Cline: One Week, Cops, The Bank Dick Merian C. Cooper: Grass, King Kong, This Is Cinerama Blake Edwards: Days of Wine and Roses, The Pink Panther, Breakfast...
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  • It's a Gift. Also in the season 1 episode "46 Long," Tony performs an impression of Fields from The Bank Dick. In real life, The Lollipop Club was once...
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    previous film, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) and the later The Bank Dick (1940). Despite this, religious leaders condemned West as a negative role...
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    supported W. C. Fields in The Barber Shop (1933) and The Bank Dick (1940). Her career continued into the late 1930s and the era of sound film. Holderness'...
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    Shemp Howard (category The Three Stooges members)
    (1939) Another Thin Man (1939) The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1939) The Leather Pushers (1939) Give Us Wings (1939) The Bank Dick (1939) Murder Over New York...
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  • Ranger-Guard (uncredited) Grand Ole Opry (1940) - Hillbilly (uncredited) The Bank Dick (1940) - Townsman (uncredited) Flying Wild (1941) - Henchman (uncredited)...
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  • otherwise not particularly bright or sharp. For example, W. C. Fields in The Bank Dick (1940) advises his prospective son-in-law to avoid being a "mooncalf"...
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    figures throughout the Golden Age of Hollywood. He is best remembered for his roles of Mr. Skinner the bank president in The Bank Dick (1940); Lou Gehrig's...
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    (1939) Another Thin Man (1939) The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1939) The Leather Pushers (1940) Give Us Wings (1940) The Bank Dick (1940) Murder Over New York...
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    including W. C. Fields' The Bank Dick, which emphasized the chase sequence at the end of the movie. Also available were newsreels covering the previous year and...
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  • At the Hollywood studios of Esoteric Pictures, Fields, playing himself, is seen admiring a billboard advertising his previous film The Bank Dick (1940)...
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  • The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American sitcom created by Carl Reiner that initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961, to June 1, 1966, with a total of...
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    "Rodiggity"), and The Critic (episode "Lady Hawke"). The W. C. Fields comedy The Bank Dick (1940), set in Lompoc, includes a character listed in the film's credits...
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    battle-axe of a mother-in-law in The Bank Dick, as Myrna Loy's Aunt Katherine (in a state of permanent high dudgeon) in After the Thin Man, and as Peggotty in...
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    known as the final chairman and chief executive officer of investment bank Lehman Brothers. Fuld held this position from 1 April 1994 after the firm's spinoff...
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    (uncredited) The Ape (1940) as Mrs. Mason (uncredited) The Trail Blazers (1940) as Alice Chapman The Bank Dick (1940) as Woman (uncredited) Charter Pilot (1940)...
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