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Publisher : Gallopade International
ISBN 13 : 9780635026507
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Marx Brothers : The Colorful Comedy Team written by and published by Gallopade International. This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allen Eyles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Marx Brothers written by Allen Eyles and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groucho, Chico, Harp, Zeppo, Gummo - these are the Marx brothers, the most heroic of all screen comedians. The author has brought together more than 100 photos to help follow the Marx Brothers' hilarious film career. You will learn about the early life of these famous brothers -- how they started out in vaudeville and how "The Cocoanuts" led to their successful film career.
Author : Robert E. Weir
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476648727
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Marx Brothers and America written by Robert E. Weir and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ground has shifted from the days in which "serious history" and "boring" went hand in glove. Textbooks and lectures have their place, but less traditional classrooms can be powerfully immersive and insightful. Take the 1929 Marx Brothers film The Cocoanuts and what it teaches about both the Great Depression and early sound films. The Marx Brothers are among the funniest comedy teams of all time. Four of their 13 films are on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American comedies ever made. For many contemporary viewers, though, "getting" the jokes is not always easy because the humor can be subjective and timebound. This work looks at the American past through the lens of the Marx Brothers' films and other projects. Each of the chapters focuses on a specific film, contextualizing the world at the time and how the Marx Brothers lampooned those subjects. Along the way, the book demonstrates what the Marx Brothers revealed about weighty topics like gambling, gender relations, immigration, medical care, Prohibition, race and war, all leavened with offbeat humor.
Author : Glenn Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia written by Glenn Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glenn Mitchell's definitive reference work on film comedy's most anarchic team is now available in hardback. Revised and corrected for this new edition, the book also contains the latest results of Mitchell's researches into the unique careers of Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Zeppo, Gummo - and Manfred.
Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493070738
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Straight Lady written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 20, 1882, future actress Margaret Dumont was born in Brooklyn, New York. A Broadway regular by the 1920s, Dumont found lasting fame once she started appearing with the Marx Brothers. Tall and regal in bearing, her character provided the perfect foil to the wisecracking Groucho Marx in a series of films including A Night at theOpera and Duck Soup. Her character’s seemingly obliviousness to insult led to the widespread belief, encouraged by Groucho himself, that Dumont was a humorless person who never got the joke. a belief she contradicted in a 1942 interview. “I’m not a stooge,” she said. “I’m a straight lady. There’s an art to playing straight. You must build up your man but never top him and never steal the laughs from him. Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, "The Fifth Marx Brother" d focuses on the Dumont and her role in the production of the comedy teams' most successful films. Several books have been written about the Marx Brothers as a comedy family and about their individual lives, but there haven’t been any books written about Margaret Dumont. This book will appeal to motion picture enthusiasts, Marx Brothers’ fans, and film historians.
Author : Arthur Marx
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573670503
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Groucho written by Arthur Marx and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1988 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspired bio musical about The One and Only begins with Groucho as an old man doing his famous Carnegie Hall show. It then goes back to the beginnings of the Marx Brothers and their struggles to make it in vaudeville, their rise to stardom and their eventual break up. All classic Groucho songs are included. One actor plays Groucho, another plays Chico and Harpo, and one actress plays all the wives, girlfriends and Margaret Dumont. A hit in New York, across the U.S. and in London, this show will delight Marx Brothers fans and the as yet uninitiated.
Author : George Simon Kaufman
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573681370
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Animal Crackers written by George Simon Kaufman and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1984 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A stage vehicle for the Marx Brothers. The scene is the Long Island estate of Mrs. Rittenhouse, a wealthy patroness of the arts with a marriageable daughter. Her celebrity weekend guest is the renowned Captain Jeffrey Spaulding, the African Explorer. He arrives with his secretary, Horatio Jameson, followed by pair of "musicians": Ravelli and the Professor. What follows is typical Marxian lunacy, involving a stolen painting, a surreal bridge game, a Broadway gossip columnist named Wally Winston, a financial wizard formerly known as Abie the Fish Peddler, and a climatic burlesque of Marie Antoinette and the Three Musketeers."--George S. Kaufman website.
Author : Groucho Marx
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787206637
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Groucho and Me written by Groucho Marx and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “Me” in the title is a comparatively unknown Marx named Julius (1895-1977), who, under the nom de plume of Groucho, enjoyed a sensational career on Broadway and in Hollywood with such comedy classics as Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, and A Day at the Races. His solo career included work as a film actor, television game show emcee, and author of The Groucho Letters, Memoirs of a Mangy Lover, and his classic autobiography, Groucho and Me. With impeccable timing, outrageous humor, irreverent wit, and a superb sense of the ridiculous, Groucho tells the saga of the Marx Brothers: the poverty of their childhood in New York’s Upper East Side; the crooked world of small-time vaudeville (where they learned to carry blackjacks); how a pretzel magnate and the graceless dancer of his dreams led to the Marx Brothers’ first Broadway hit, I’ll Say She Is!, how the stock market crash in 1929 proved a godsend for Groucho (even though he lost nearly a quarter of a million dollars); the adventures of the Marx Brothers in Hollywood, the making of their hilarious films, and Groucho’s triumphant television series, You Bet Your Life!. Here is the life and lunatic times of the great eccentric genius, Groucho, a.k.a. Julius Henry Marx. “The book is never less than readable and its glimpses of American show business at its least glamorous are simple, true and sometimes rather touching.”—Times Literary Supplement “My advice is to ration yourself to a chapter a night—it’s that delectable.”—Chicago Sunday Tribune
Author : Peter Tyson
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780791023662
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Groucho Marx written by Peter Tyson and published by Chelsea House Publications. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of comedian Groucho Marx, a member of the legendary Marx Brothers comedy team.
Author : Josh Frank
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 159474923X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)
Download or read book Giraffes on Horseback Salad written by Josh Frank and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lushly illustrated graphic novel re-creates a lost Marx Brothers script written by modern art icon Salvador Dali. Grab some popcorn and take a seat...The curtain is about to rise on a film like no other! But first, the real-life backstory: Giraffes on Horseback Salad was a Marx Brothers film written by modern art icon Salvador Dali, who’d befriended Harpo. Rejected by MGM, the script was thought lost forever. Author and lost-film buff Josh Frank unearthed the original script, and Dali’s notes and sketches for the project, tucked away in museum archives. With comedian Tim Heidecker and Spanish comics creator Manuela Pertega, he’s re-created the film as a graphic novel in all its gorgeous full-color, cinematic, surreal glory. In the story, a businessman named Jimmy (played by Harpo) is drawn to the mysterious Surrealist Woman, whose very presence changes humdrum reality into Dali-esque fantasy. With the help of Groucho and Chico, Jimmy seeks to join her fantastical world—but forces of normalcy threaten to end their romance. Includes new Marx Brothers songs and antics, plus the real-world story behind the historic collaboration.
Author : Lee Siegel
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300216637
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Groucho Marx written by Lee Siegel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirited biography of this beloved American iconoclast, Lee Siegel views the life of Groucho through the lens of his work on stage, screen, and television. The author uncovers the roots of the performer’s outrageous intellectual acuity and hilarious insolence toward convention and authority in Groucho’s early upbringing and Marx family dynamics. The first critical biography of Groucho Marx to approach his work analytically, this fascinating study draws unique connections between Groucho’s comedy and his life, concentrating primarily on the brothers’ classic films as a means of understanding and appreciating Julius the man. Unlike previous uncritical and mostly reverential biographies, Siegel’s “bio-commentary” makes a distinctive contribution to the field of Groucho studies by attempting to tell the story of his life in terms of his work, and vice versa.
Author : Joe Adamson
Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Sometimes Zeppo written by Joe Adamson and published by New York : Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1973 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the lives, early careers and final flowering of the Brothers Marx, the recollections of their co-workers and the scripts of their films. Joe Adamson interviewed the survivors of the arduous battles which making a film represented, and collected legends, anecdotes and jokes concerning the hilarious antics on the set, the sudden improvisations before the camera, and the extraordinary story conferences.
Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : Booksllc.Net
ISBN 13 : 9781230786810
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Marx Brothers written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: An Evening with Groucho, Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Gummo Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx. Excerpt: The Marx Brothers were a family comedy act, originally from New York City, that enjoyed success in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in motion pictures from 1905 to 1949. Five of the Marx Brothers' thirteen feature films were selected by the American Film Institute (AFI) as among the top 100 comedy films, with two of them (Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera) in the top twelve. The brothers were also included in AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list of the most significant screen legends, the only performers to be inducted collectively . The core of the act was the three elder brothers, Chico, Harpo, and Groucho; each developed a highly distinctive stage persona. The two younger brothers, Gummo and Zeppo, did not develop their stage characters to the same extent, and eventually left the act to pursue other careers. Gummo was not in any of the movies; Zeppo appeared in the first five films in relatively straight (non-comedic) roles. Born in New York City, the Marx Brothers were the sons of Jewish immigrants from Germany and France. Their mother, Minnie Schonberg, was from Dornum in East Frisia; and their father, Simon Marx (whose name was changed to Samuel Marx, and who was nicknamed "Frenchy") was a native of Alsace and worked as a tailor. The family lived in the then-poor Yorkville section of New York City's Upper East Side, between the Irish, German and Italian quarters. The brothers were: A sixth brother, Manfred ("Mannie"), was actually the first child of Samuel and Minnie, born in 1886, though an online family tree states that he was born in 1885: "Family lore told privately of the firstborn son, Manny, born in 1886 but surviving for only three months, and carried off by tuberculosis. Even some members of the Marx family...
Author : Luis Gonzalez
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986820714
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Wisdom of the Marx Brothers written by Luis Gonzalez and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marx Brothers were one of a kind. Their comedic style blends zany slapstick with wit and sarcasm. Their films date back nearly a century, but the comedy is timeless. The humor stems from keen observations and commentary on human nature-which never gets old. Humor is unvarnished truth-if it weren't true, it wouldn't be funny. The films of the Marx Brothers offer many funny moments, many truths, many life lessons. Within these pages you will find a dozen life lessons gleaned from the films and lives of Groucho, Chico and Harpo. May your life by enriched by the Wisdom of the Marx Brothers.
Author : ROBERT S. BADER
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810145757
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Four of the Three Musketeers written by ROBERT S. BADER and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four of the Three Musketeers is the definitive history of the Marx Brothers' hardscrabble early years honing their act in front of live audiences on the vaudeville circuit.
Author : Simon Louvish
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312252922
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Monkey Business written by Simon Louvish and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-06-08 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange but true: this is the first authentic account of the Marx Brothers, their origins and of the roots of their comedy. First and foremost, this is the saga of a family whose theatrical roots stretch back to mid-19th century Germany. From Groucho Marx's first warblings with the singing Leroy Trio, this book brings to life the vanished world of America's wild and boisterous variety circuits, leading to the Marx Brothers' Broadway successes, and their alliance with New York's theatrical lions, George S. Kaufman and the 'Algonquin Round Table'. Never-before-published scripts, well-minted Marxian dialogue, and much madness and mayham feature in this tale of the Brothers' battles with Hollywood, their films, their loves and marriages, and the story of the forgotten brother Gummo.
Author : Greg Lenburg
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508528739
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Marx Brothers Movie Poster Book written by Greg Lenburg and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They made only 13 feature films, but their films, like their zany antics, have withstood the test of time. They are the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo and sometimes Zeppo). Their films are more than just classics: five of them were selected by the American Film Institute (AFI) as among the top 100 comedy films, with two of them (“Duck Soup” and “A Night at the Opera”) in the top twelve. The “Marx Brothers Movie Poster Book” contains more than 40 pieces of poster art, including for all 13 of the team's feature films, from “The Cocoanuts” (1929) to “The Story of Mankind” (1957) in which they appeared in cameo roles It also contains a sampler of other promotional materials (lobby cards, half sheets, etc.) from some of their films, compilation and re-released films, and Groucho's solo films.So Marx Brothers fans, pull up a chair, cut the cards, get your half a cup of coffee and enjoy the “Marx Brothers Movie Poster Book.”
