Description

The Dentist is a 1932 United States Comedy film Short subject starring W. C. Fields. The film is one of four short films Fields made with the “king of comedy,” Mack Sennett, at Paramount Pictures. 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.

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 (actor) as Joe, the pal (uncredited)
  • Emma Tansey as Old Lady (uncredited)
  • Chester Clute as Nervous patient (uncredited)
  • Bud Jamison as Charley Frobisher (uncredited)
  • Bobby Dunn as Dentist’s Caddy (uncredited)
  • Thelma Hill (uncredited)
  • Ethel La Blanche (uncredited)
  • Pete Rasch (uncredited)
  • William Searby (uncredited)