SID FIELD & BILLY DE WOLFE 1940s Comedians ORIGINAL STILL

Original 9 3/8 inch x 7 3/8 inch Still of SID FIELD & BILLY DE WOLFE.

Sidney Arthur Field (1 April 1904 – 3 February 1950) was an English comedy entertainer who was popular in the 1940s. Even as a child, Field loved entertaining people, sometimes with Charlie Chaplin impersonations. The revival of variety theatre in the late 1910s and early 1920s allowed the young Field to become a master of sketch comedy and dialect. He worked as a comedian in regional music halls for nearly 30 years before becoming an ‘overnight’ star following a role in London's West End as Slasher Green, the Cockney "wide boy" or "spiv". He appeared at the Royal Variety Performances in 1945 and 1946, but he only appeared in 3 films “That’s The Ticket (1940), “London Town” (1946) and “Cardboard Cavalier” (1949).

Billy DeWolfe (1907 - 1974) entered vaudeville as a musical comedy performer in his teens. He gained fame in several nightclub and Broadway revues of the late 1930s and early 1940s, in which he generally portrayed an overemphatic effeminate character. His best-known routine was "Mrs. Murgatroyd," wherein the mustachioed DeWolfe, decked out in a flowery hat and steel-rimmed specs, impersonated a middle-aged lady "doing lunch" after a shopping spree.

The still is in very good condition with minor surface marks and a caption tacked to the reverse.