baby leroy received second billing classic comedy s gift.
fields recounted difficult shooting day during tillie , gus short scene repeatedly ruined baby leroy s crying until surreptitiously devised solution: quietly removed nipple baby leroy s bottle, dropped in couple of noggins of gin, , returned baby leroy. after sucking on pacifier few minutes, staggered through scene barrymore.
leroy perhaps best remembered dinner table sequence in w. c. fields comedy old fashioned way (1934) in throws handful of custard comedian s face, yanks on nose, , destroys pocket watch tossing bowl of molasses. fields endures each of these indignities, scene ends fields spotting baby leroy standing in doorway , giving toddler kick rear end. film s director, william beaudine, reported kick got biggest laugh in picture.
by time of s gift, fields had wearied of youngster, getting second billing in credits. fields had phobia baby, said director norman mcleod. not hated infants in general, believed baby leroy stealing scenes him... used swear @ baby in front of camera had cut off ends of scenes in appeared. whether or not animosity legitimate, contributed popular impression of fields, famously summed leo rosten @ 1939 testimonial event: thing can mr. w. c. fields, whom have admired since day advanced upon baby leroy icepick, this: man hates dogs , babies can t bad.
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