W.C. Fields used the pseudonym Mahatma Kane Jeeves when writing the script for The Bank Dick (1940), in a play on both the word "Mahatma" and a phrase an aristocrat might use when addressing a servant, before leaving the house: "My hat, my cane, Jeeves".
World Bank | Bank of America | West Bank | Dick Cheney | Deutsche Bank | Philip K. Dick | Bank of England | International Bank for Reconstruction and Development | African Development Bank | Asian Development Bank | Inter-American Development Bank | Moby-Dick | Dick Durbin | bank | South Bank | Lloyds Bank | Dick Clark | Lloyds Bank (historic) | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | Dick Dale | National Australia Bank | Chase (bank) | West African Development Bank | State Bank of India | Dick Cavett | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | Royal Bank of Canada | Commonwealth Bank | Bank of New Zealand | Bank of Montreal |
Shortly after, he emigrated to Hollywood where he worked on such films as the W. C. Fields classic comedies The Bank Dick (1940) and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941), and Julien Duvivier’s portmanteau film Flesh and Fantasy (1943).