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Show 8Nw , , l&ULi' 1 ' W.C. FIELDS AND ME Academy Award winner Rod Steiger and Valerie Perrine (both pictured) star in the nostalgic 1976 movie biography 'W.C. Fields and Me' Dec. 10 on NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.' Carlotta Monti (Miss Perrine), upon whose book the film is based, meets master comedian W.C. Fields (Steiger) in Hollywood following his success in the early 1920s as a ( Ziegfeld Follies star. During the j course of their relationship, she I learns that while the actor-writer and budding movie star is talented and witty, he is often ill-tempered. Her devotion to Fields continues even when she suffers the disappointment of tailing to become a film star. She learns that he is a man whose hijinks range from spiking a 3 young child's orange juice with gin to I chasing a swan from his Hollywood ? lawn with a broom. A Jack Cassidy and Bernadette Peters are featured. CONSULT OUR UST1NOS FOR LA&T MmUTl NET- |