THE PIE KING
FUZZY KNIGHT AT HIS BEST. A :“five-pie” performance has bee., registered by Fuzzy Knight, film comedian. Eating scenes in which repeated “takes” require actors to ddwn 28 pork chops or 42 grapefruit are dread-! ed by most screen players. .But Fuzzy's, pie-consuming feat for scenes in the Mae West-W. C. Fields film “My LJttJ--. Chickadee” was a pleasure, according tc the comic. The sequence showed Knight sitting at a table opposite Fields, and devouring huge chunks of pie. knight committed the apparently grievous error of eating right through several rehearsals. "Don’t eat during rehearsals,” Director Eddie Cline cautioned Fuzzy. “You’ll have more pie than you want in the ‘take.’” “Not me!” answered the comedian. “I've had these things thrown at me but I've never been paid Io eat them. Bring ’em on.” Before the scene was completed Knight had wolfed four and threequarters regular-sized gooseberry pies. And when the property man tried to remove the last quarter-pie, Fuzzy stopped him. With the entire company watching in awe, he finished off thfinal slice with relish.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1940, Page 9
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