Influence and Legacy
According to Woody Allen (in a New York Times interview from January 30, 2000), W. C. Fields is one of only six "genuine comic geniuses" he recognized as such in movie history, along with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho and Harpo Marx, and Peter Sellers.
A W.C. Fields commemorative stamp was issued by the United States Postal Service on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the comedian's birth in January 1980.
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