Oral history interview with Bert Wheeler, 1958

Biographical Note

Comedian

Scope and Contents

Career as comedian in vaudeville and movies; Gus Edwards and Florenz Ziegfeld; years playing one-night stands with wife Betty; Hollywood from 1929: early sound production, state of comedy; recollections of Bobby Woolsey, W.C. Fields, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Laurel and Hardy

Subjects

• Comedians--United States--Interviews.
• Comedy films.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion pictures.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Vaudeville--United States.
• Wheeler, Bert, 1895-1968--Interviews.