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Auction History Result 3r0309 IT'S THE OLD ARMY GAME deluxe 7.5x9.5 still 1926 W.C. Fields & Wood in deleted golf scene! Date Sold 3/5/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Deluxe 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" [19 x 24 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) It's the Old Army Game, the 1926 A. Edward Sutherland silent romantic screwball comedy ("It's the Old Army Game: Meaning 'Never Give A Sucker An Even Break'"; "From the play by Joseph P. McEvoy"; about a drugstore owner who leases space to a man selling real estate, and when it appears the man swindled people, the drugstore owner leaves town and has all sorts of adventures) starring W.C. Fields, Louise Brooks, Blanche Ring, William Gaxton, Mary Foy, and Josephine Dunn (as a "society bather"). Note that this is a typical W.C. Fields movie in that the plot is very loose and much of the movie consists of Fields performing his trademark gags. As usual in Fields' movies, he has a young female who he has a good relationship with, and in this case it is the young lady who works in his drugstore. But what is wonderful is that young lady is played by Louise Brooks, who would go on to great cult stardom, in some ways rivaling that of Fields himself! However, much of Brooks' scenes concern her and her boyfriend in the movie, played by William Gaxton, and she has almost no scenes with W.C. Fields, and she is not pictured on the posters or the title card. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is a very confusing still. It is surely from "It's the Old Army Game", because it was found in with a group of other stills from that movie. But it shows W.C. Fields preparing to play golf, and everything we have found says that there is no golf gag in this movie! He does play golf in two later movies, "The Golf Specialist" from 1930 and "The Dentist" from 1932. In "The Golf Specialist", his caddy is played by Allen Wood, and in "The Dentist", his caddy is played by Bobby Dunn. In this image from 1926, Fields' caddy is clearly played by Allen Wood (a small man). So how to explain this image, when the golf scene is not in the movie? We know that the "golf routine" was something Fields did in his vaudeville days, and no doubt he tried to work it into several of his movies. We imagine that they did filming for the gag in this movie (with Allen Wood), but it didn't make it into the final cut. So this is a rare image from a deleted scene from this movie! If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Note that this still measures 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" [19 x 24 cm], but it has not been trimmed. Also note that this is a deluxe still printed on double weight paper stock. Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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