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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); }) Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film directed by Edward Cline, starring W.C. Fields.In it Fields plays...W.C. Fields, a star at Esoteric Studios. (He's introduced gazing at a billboard advertising himself in his previous film, The Bank Dick.) He has a nice, Gloria Jean (played by, yep, Gloria Jean), who is a budding musical star. Studio producer Franklin Pangborn (no prizes for guessing the actor's name) is trying to mold Gloria into a star, while growing increasingly exasperated at the eccentricities of Fields.Fields has an appointment with Pangborn to go over his new script. The script that Fields reads for Pangborn is a completely crazy story in which his character falls out of the observation deck of an airplane—no, really—and falls thousands of feet onto an isolated Russian mountaintop mansion, where abides a gorgeous young blonde and her forbidding shrew of a mother. This story-within-a-story takes up a significant chunk of the film.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })W.C. Fields's last starring role. He spent the last five years of his life in radio and making a few movie cameos before he died of alcoholism and cirrhosis in 1946.
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 The Artifact: A scene early in the movie establishes that Gloria's mother, Fields's sister, is a trapeze artist about to perform a difficult stunt. Fields tells her to be careful. Nothing else comes of this. The story as Fields wrote it would have had Gloria's mother visited by The Plot Reaper when she dies doing the stunt, leaving Fields to be guardian to Gloria.
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 Animated Credits Opening: Starts with a cartoon of Fields, bulbous alcoholic red nose and all. His prodigious belly bursts out of his suit and forms the background for the title.
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 The Alcoholic: Fields plays his usual hard drinker. When his flask falls out of a plane, he jumps after it.
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