What Made Pistachio Nuts?
Vaudeville
Comedy films
Comedy
Motion pictures, history
Cinéma
Histoire et critique
History and criticism
"What Made Pistachio Nuts? examines what Henry Jenkins calls anarchistic comedy, a body of comedian-centered films produced in the early 1930s, the first years of the sound era." "Bringing a fresh perspective to long-forgotten films by W. C. Fields, Wheeler and Woolsey, Eddie Cantor, and George Burn…
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