Louise Brooks with Edward Sutherland
Paramount Studios Publicity Photograph for IT'S THE OLD ARMY GAME
1926 · Ocala, Florida

Shooting for IT'S THE OLD ARMY GAME in Ocala, Florida quickly became a drunken free-for-all with hard-drinking W.C. Fields, Louise, and her future husband, director Eddie Sutherland on the set. According to Louise: "Nobody in Ocala seemed to have heard of Prohibition. And if ever there was a company that needed no help in the consumption of liquor it was ours." However, Louise was not so soused that she didn't store away her sharpest insights and observations about her co-star, which she would record in her essay "The Other Face of W.C. Fields."