Posted on 04/11/2017 8:28:30 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
Indeed, a great foil
That sounds REALLY out of the box!!
Any chance I can have a look at it?
LOL!!
you’re as addicted as me!!
“here’s you’re florida call..” ROFL!! from a day at the races!!!
i love that scene!!!!!!!!
an duck soup, every part you mentioned, too ####ing funny for words
i watch them over and over and over and over!!
like i said, have them all.
spaz, lol
They blow away abbot and costello and the stooges (though they were very good).
you can take everything from me but leave me a laptop and my MARX brothers CDs!!! :)
laws of my administration lol
no one’s allowed to smoke or tell a dirty joke..lol
Margeret Dumont was GREAT!! as the straight lady.
she really WAS the fifth marx brother
THIS IS GALA DAY FOR YOU
WELL A GAL A DAY IS ALL I COULD HANDLE...
The left is agitating for war in Syria, which means war with Russia. The world has gone nuts. And yes I include McLame and his girlfriend in the left.
Sounds like our political leaders.
The funny thing is that according to Adamson, Margaret Dumont didn’t get the jokes - and insisted on calling the boys by their given names.
All of which made her the perfect foil.
CHICO. Now, we gonna play this number allegro pizzicato. You know allegro pizzicato?
BANDLEADER. No.
CHICO. You know Jimmy Pizzicato?
BANDLEADER. No.
CHICO. None of the Pizzicatos, huh? (BANDLEADER shakes his head.) Well, what do you know?
BANDLEADER. We know pistachio.
CHICO. Good. We play that.
“I have a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.”
I love hearing Alice Cooper telling stories of the friendship he had with Groucho in his later years.
The importance of Zeppo.
Well, on this particular occasion, Harpo hit a red light and was ever so slightly delayed.
Now, as you recall, the script calls for Harpo to enter, Margaret Dumont to say, "Take the Professor's hat and coat", and Groucho to say, "And send for the fumigators." Then they take his coat off and he's standing there in his underwear.
This particular day, Harpo made his entrance, everyone said their lines as usual, they took his hat and coat, and Harpo was standing there in his jockstrap. Of course, everyone looked stunned.
But since they were supposed to look stunned, Harpo had no idea anything was wrong until his dear brother wandered downstage, front and center, leaned into the audience, and announced, "Tomorrow, he's not wearing anything, so get your tickets early."
I’ll be happy to send it. FReepmail me your email address.
When the Marxes were working at Paramount (for the first five movies), W.C. Fields was shooting on the soundstage next door. The five of them used to eat lunch together in the Paramount commissary. You can imagine the chaos that ensued.
I think I mistakenly said Harpo. It was Zeppo.
President Coolidge was in a box at the National Theater for “Animal Crackers,” in 1928. At some point, Groucho went over in front of the box and said, “Isn’t it past your bedtime, Cal?” Coolidge smiled.
I’m nervous. I have two collections which are supposed to include ALL of their movies and I dont see that one!!
Supposedly, at parties and other social events, Zeppo was the funniest of all the brothers, but never really got to show that in his on-screen character.
I have seen it all the way through once, and partway one other time. It's hard to find. It's mostly a Harpo movie. (One of the blondes he gets to chase is a young Marilyn Monroe. It was about her third movie.) At one point, Harpo chases a blonde on the flying Mobil horse.
You ought to watch it once, just so you can say you've seen all their work.
BTW, if you're around NYC any time, a friend of mine is in a troupe that reconstructed I'll Say She Is and has been performing it on and off in Lower Manhattan. She's doing the Margaret Dumont role.
Another of Groucho’s friends was George Gershwin. Gershwin had a habit of showing up at parties, sitting at the piano, and playign his latest.
He was doing that one night when Groucho arrived.
“Groucho,” someone asked, “do you think George’s music will still be heard a hundred years from now?”
“It will if George is around to play it.”
Read Zeppo’s Wikipedia article. Who would guess that Sinatra stole Zeppo’s wife?
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