Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)





W.C. Fields describes a story to Esoteric Studios producer Franklin Pangborn, but meets with little response. Wandering out, he finds his niece, Gloria Jean, playing in a shooting gallery. Then, Gloria's mother, Madame Gorgeous, is killed in a trapeze fall while working in a circus picture. Fields and Gloria leave by plane to sell nutmegs to Russians in Mexico.


Books with substantial mentioning of Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Jürgen Müller
Movies of the 40s
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