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Fields was doing a picture many years ago with a kid named Baby LeRoy. And in those days you had to have a nurse on the set. This was one of the rules in the movie industry. So the nurse had to go to the bathroom. Even nurses do that occasionally. And Fields says, look, I'll take care of the kid, you just go to the bathroom. And when she had gone, he took a bottle of booze out of his back pocket and got Baby LeRoy dead drunk. And they had to close the show for the movie for…

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Synopsis

In this entertaining episode of An Evening With Groucho, the legendary comedian W.C. Fields takes center stage to share a hilarious and outrageous story from his past. The tale revolves around his experience working with the young actor Baby Leroy during a film shoot. Fields sets the scene by describing the strict rules of the movie industry at the time, which included having a nurse present on set to care for child actors.

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An Evening With Groucho, Episode 28

W C Fields- Baby Leroy

Saturday, May 6, 1972 · 1:01

An Evening With Groucho, Episode 28

W C Fields- Baby Leroy

Saturday, May 6, 1972 · 1:01

Summary

W.C. Fields shares a humorous and outrageous story about his time working with Baby Leroy on a film set, highlighting the chaos that ensued when a nurse leaves the scene.

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  2. An Evening With GrouchoIntroduction - Dick CavettEpisode 2
  3. An Evening With GrouchoHello, I Must Be GoingEpisode 3
  4. An Evening With GrouchoViolin Solo, Jack Benny TributeEpisode 4
  5. An Evening With GrouchoHow I Got Started in Show BusinessEpisode 5
  6. An Evening With GrouchoMy Family, How We Got Our NamesEpisode 6
  7. An Evening With GrouchoStrange Relatives - Uncle JuliusEpisode 7
  8. An Evening With GrouchoChico at Klauber Horn CoEpisode 8
  9. An Evening With GrouchoUncle Herman, ChiropodistEpisode 9
  10. An Evening With GrouchoTimbuctooEpisode 10
  11. An Evening With GrouchoAnnie BergerEpisode 11
  12. An Evening With GrouchoWorld War One, Vaudeville in TorontoEpisode 12
  13. An Evening With GrouchoOh, How That Woman Could CookEpisode 13
  14. An Evening With GrouchoToronto SongEpisode 14
  15. An Evening With GrouchoLondon Stories - Polish Officer StoryEpisode 15
  16. An Evening With GrouchoLondon Stories - Churchill & 2nd World WarEpisode 16
  17. An Evening With GrouchoTough Chicago Critic StoryEpisode 17
  18. An Evening With GrouchoPalace Theatre - Sarah BernhardtEpisode 18
  19. An Evening With GrouchoPalace Theatre - Fanny Brice-Swayne's Rats and CatsEpisode 19
  20. An Evening With GrouchoPoem from the Play 'animal Crackers'Episode 20
  21. An Evening With GrouchoT S Eliot Memorial- Laurence Olivier's LapEpisode 21
  22. An Evening With Groucho2nd World War Bond TourEpisode 22
  23. An Evening With GrouchoHoudini StoryEpisode 23
  24. An Evening With GrouchoMusic in - CocoanutsEpisode 24
  25. An Evening With GrouchoMusic in - Cocoanuts- - Stay Down Here Where You BelongEpisode 25
  26. An Evening With GrouchoOtto Kahn StoryEpisode 26
  27. An Evening With GrouchoW C Fields- Beebee Gun-ProhibitionEpisode 27
  28. An Evening With GrouchoW C Fields- Baby LeroyCurrently listeningEpisode 28
  29. An Evening With GrouchoAn Evening with Groucho - 29 - Heaven's AboveEpisode 29
  30. An Evening With GrouchoEverybody Works but FatherEpisode 30
  31. An Evening With GrouchoFather's DayEpisode 31
  32. An Evening With GrouchoMargaret Dumont, the Dowager in Our FilmsEpisode 32
  33. An Evening With GrouchoThalberg Story - GarboEpisode 33
  34. An Evening With GrouchoSampson and Delilah StoryEpisode 34
  35. An Evening With GrouchoWill Rogers, Baseball in BaltimoreEpisode 35
  36. An Evening With GrouchoPriests' Stories- Plaza Hotel-MontrealEpisode 36
  37. An Evening With GrouchoPriests' Stories- RomeEpisode 37
  38. An Evening With GrouchoShow Me a RoseEpisode 38
  39. An Evening With GrouchoLydia, the Tattooed LadyEpisode 39