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Director
  
Leslie Pearce

Screenplay
  
W. C. Fields

Duration
  

Language
  
English

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Short

Producer
  
Mack Sennett

Country
  
United States

The Dentist (1932 film) movie poster

Release date
  
September 9, 1932 (1932-09-09)

Cast
  
W.C. Fields
(Dentist),
Marjorie Kane
(Mary - Dentist's Daughter),
Arnold Gray
(Arthur the Iceman),
Dorothy Granger
(Patient (Miss Peppitone)),
Elise Cavanna
(Patient (Miss Mason)),
Zedna Farley
(Dental Assistant)

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The Dentist is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy short, starring W. C. Fields. The film is one of four short films Fields made with the "king of comedy," Mack Sennett, at Paramount. Although Sennett was near the end of his career, he found good use of the new medium of talking pictures for comedy, as the film demonstrates. It was directed by Leslie Pearce from a script by Fields himself. The film has been released on VHS and DVD.

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Plot

Fields plays a dentist whose daughter desires to marry an ice-delivery man. He disapproves of this match, especially after she attempts to elope with her lover. Fields locks her up in an upstairs room, above his dental office, where she proceeds to stamp her feet, causing plaster chunks to fall as he attempts to treat his patients. Various patients with unusual physical traits (a tall "horse"-faced woman, a tiny, heavily bearded man) arrive at the office, and he attempts to use his dental drill on them without any apparent pain killer. With one of his patients (Elise Cavanna), he engages in an intimate wrestling match as he attempts to extract a painful tooth.

Cast

  • W. C. Fields as Dentist
  • Marjorie Kane as Daughter (as 'Babe' Kane)
  • Arnold Gray as Arthur the iceman
  • Dorothy Granger as Patient (Miss Peppitone)
  • Elise Cavanna as Patient (Miss Mason)
  • Zedna Farley as Dental Assistant
  • Billy Bletcher as Bearded patient (uncredited)
  • Joe Bordeaux as Caddy (uncredited)
  • Harry Bowen as Joe, the pal (uncredited)
  • Chester Clute as Nervous patient (uncredited)
  • Bud Jamison as Charley Frobisher (uncredited)
  • Bobby Dunn as Dentist's Caddy (uncredited)
  • Thelma Hill (uncredited)
  • Vernon Dent as golf partner (uncredited)

    • References

    The Dentist (1932 film) Wikipedia
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    The Dentist (1932 film) IMDb The Dentist (1932 film) themoviedb.org