This book is a fun read for fans of W.C. Fields. But accuracy was not a major issue for the author. Many of the stories have since been disproven by better biographers who bothered to do some research. The author here just accepted all of Fields's gag stories and the output of Paramount's publicity department.This book can be enjoyed, but it should be regarded as a work of fiction that loosely touches on some aspects of the reality of Fields's life.If you want an actual biographer of Fields, you'd do much better with Simon Louvish.