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The Essential Groucho

Author : Stefan Kanfer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 037570213X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Groucho written by Stefan Kanfer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000-06-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groucho Marx may be the funniest man who ever lived. Here in one volume are the classics of Marxian mayhem: excerpts from the scripts of the immortal movies, passages from his books, his articles for magazines ranging from The New Yorker to the Saturday Evening Post, the choicest ad-libs and quips from his long-running game show, You Bet Your Life, and selected letters, including his classic correspondence with T. S. Eliot. It's all here-the finest and funniest work by this century's most influential comedian, that man of whom Woody Allen said, "He is simply unique in the same way Picasso and Stravinsky are, and I believe his outrageous, unsentimental disregard for order will be equally funny a thousand years from now. In addition to all this, he makes me laugh." In the words of Groucho Marx: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he go in my pajamas I don't know. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Groucho

Author : Stefan Kanfer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375702075
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Groucho written by Stefan Kanfer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-05-08 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive biography of one of the world’s greatest comedians unflinchingly yet affectionately uncovers the man behind the cigar. Here is the amazing career of the man the world recognized as Groucho: the improbable disasters of the vaudeville years; the Marx Brothers, an act so funny W.C. Fields refused to follow it; the unprecedented Broadway success of The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers; the cinematic triumphs of Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera; and the marvelous come-back career as king of the game show hosts with You Bet Your Life. Here, too, is the man himself: a lonely middle child who aspired to be a doctor; a man who sabotaged three marriages; a father alternately indulgent and cruel. Intelligent and thorough, hilarious and sad, Groucho is a spectacular biography of the century’s most influential comedian.

Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales

Author : Robert S. Bader
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1557839220
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales written by Robert S. Bader and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GROUCHO MARX AND OTHER SHORT STORIES AND TALL TALES: THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF GROUCHO M

The Groucho Letters

Author : Groucho Marx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416536035
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Groucho Letters written by Groucho Marx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated to the Library of Congress in the mid-1960s, Groucho Marx's correspondence was first crafted into this celebration of wit and wisdom in 1967. Reissued today with his original letters and humor intact, The Groucho Letters exposes one of the twentieth century's most beloved comedian's private insights into show biz, politics, business, and, of course, his illustrious personal life. Included are Marx's conversations with such noted personalities as E. B. White, Fred Allen, Goodman Ace, Nunnally Johnson, James Thurber, Booth Tarkington, Alistair Cooke, Harry Truman, Irving Berlin, and S. J. Perelman. To Confidential Magazine Gentlemen: If you continue to publish slanderous pieces about me, I shall feel compelled to cancel my subscription. Sincerely, Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx

Author : Lee Siegel
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300216637
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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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.

Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover

Author : Groucho Marx
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786743808
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover written by Groucho Marx and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are Groucho's improbable tales of true romance, narrated with his characteristic panache and illustrated with splendid New Yorker-esque cartoons.

Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Sometimes Zeppo

Author : Joe Adamson
Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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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.

Groucho and Me

Author : Groucho Marx
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787206637
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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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 275 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

Selected Writings

Author : Karl Marx
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872202184
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Selected Writings written by Karl Marx and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the works from Marx's enormous corpus, this title covers Marx's development from the Hegelian idealism of his youth to the mature socialism of his later works. It includes writings from Marx's early philosophical works, and the central writings on historical materialism.

Hail, Hail, Euphoria!

Author : Roy Blount Jr.
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062009761
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Hail, Hail, Euphoria! written by Roy Blount Jr. and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly eighty years after its release, the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup remains one of the most influential pieces of political satire in history. In Hail, Hail, Euphoria!, bestselling author Roy Blount Jr. tells the history and making of Duck Soup, examining the comedic genius of the Marx Brothers in their finest hour and nine minutes. In Duck Soup, a slim, agile, quick-witted, self-assured young man is summoned to save a nation from financial ruin. As the nation's new president, he brings together a team of rivals, a band of brothers. Those brothers are Pinky, Chicolini, and Lt. Bob Roland. Their leader? None other than Rufus T. Firefly. The humor and idiosyncratic wit of Duck Soup are saluted by the author's own in this gem of a book, offering a behind-the-scenes tale of show business and brotherhood that only a true Marx Brothers aficionado could tell.

Hello Goodbye Hello

Author : Craig Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451684517
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Hello Goodbye Hello written by Craig Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of whimsical true encounters between famous and infamous individuals describes the unlikely meetings of Marilyn Monroe with Frank Lloyd Wright, Michael Jackson with Nancy Reagan, and Sigmund Freud with Gustav Mahler.

101 Classic Jewish Jokes

Author : Robert Menchin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461750148
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book 101 Classic Jewish Jokes written by Robert Menchin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997-09-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish humor has defined comedy in 20th-century America.

Mass Appeal

Author : Edward D. Berkowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493604
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Mass Appeal written by Edward D. Berkowitz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass Appeal describes the changing world of American popular culture from the first sound movies through the age of television. In short vignettes, the book reveals the career patterns of people who became big movie, TV, or radio stars. Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson symbolize the early stars of sound movies. Groucho Marx and Fred Astaire represent the movie stars of the 1930s, and Jack Benny stands in for the 1930s performers who achieved their success on radio. Katharine Hepburn, a stage and film star, illustrates the cultural trends of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Humphrey Bogart and Bob Hope serve as examples of performers who achieved great success during the Second World War. Walt Disney, Woody Allen, and Lucille Ball, among others, become the representative figures of the postwar world. Through these vignettes, the reader comes to understand the development of American mass media in the twentieth century.

Groucho Marx, Secret Agent

Author : Ron Goulart
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429924373
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Groucho Marx, Secret Agent written by Ron Goulart and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2002-07-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It could be said that in this episode Groucho Marx operates as a Hollywood-style Scarlet Pimpernel, with a repertoire of outrageous puns covering the steely, daring life of a counterspy. But, as Groucho might retort, his cover is at the dry-cleaner, and, besides, Groucho is not one to hide his light under any bushel (even one of stuffed clams). So he and Frank Denby, his sidekick, scriptwriter and close friend, set out to uphold their reputation as amateur sleuths by looking into the death of British director Eric Olmstead. First Olmstead fainted at a star-studded Halloween party after a man dressed as the Grim Reaper had whispered to him and then disappeared. But it is not until the next day that he is found dead--presumably by his own hand. It is 1939; everyone expects the U.S. to join the war raging in Europe. And everyone is looking under the bed for spies. Soon the questions surrounding the death of Eric Olmstead takes on an odor of espionage. The police call Olmstead's death a suicide. After all, he did leave a (typed) note. His widow refuses to believe that her husband shot himself, and persuades Groucho and Frank to look further. Soon the pair is enmeshed in FBI agents and Los Angeles police, while the grieving widow clamors for revenge. Here is where Groucho proves his genius as a detective--he seizes on the clue that reveals the death to be murder. This, however, is only the beginning. There is another murder. Groucho and Frank are attacked; Frank is shot at (but not hit); Groucho is hit (but not shot at; just knocked to the floor by the fleeing assailant). They not only survive, but they pinpoint the Nazi spy and the Hollywood figures working with them. In a romp made delightful in spite of spies, murders, and occasional dire peril, Goulart uncannily resurrects the most garrulous Marx brother and his unique brand of patter. The Groucho Marx of these stories is the next best thing to the capering of the late comedian himself, and a happy gift to everyone who remembers him fondly as well as those meeting him for the first time.

Growing Up with Chico

Author : Maxine Marx
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up with Chico written by Maxine Marx and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1980 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of Chico Marx portrays her father as a charming bon vivant, compulsive gambler, congenital liar, and faithless husband who, as manager for the Marx Brothers, steered them to phenomenal success from vaudeville to Hollywood.

Hello, I Must Be Going

Author : Charlotte Chandler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471105857
Total Pages : 1114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Hello, I Must Be Going written by Charlotte Chandler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Groucho Marx was well into his eighties, Charlotte Chandler approached him about writing a profile of him for a magazine. Groucho invited Charlotte to meet and that meeting grew into a friendship that lasted until Groucho's death in August 1977. Groucho was surrounded by a group of friends - some old timers like George Burns and Jack Benny - some younger comedians, like Woody Allen, who revered Groucho. Charlotte was present for most of these meetings and these conversations form the basis of HELLO, I MUST BE GOING. Some are hilarious, some are poignant, all of them are fascinating. If you ever wondered what it was like to spend some time with Groucho Marx, one of the wittiest men ever, this is your book.

They Call Me Supermensch

Author : Shep Gordon
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006235597X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book They Call Me Supermensch written by Shep Gordon and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of his storied career as a manager, agent, and producer, Shep Gordon has worked with—and befriended—some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, from Alice Cooper to Bette Davis, Raquel Welch to Groucho Marx, Blondie to Jimi Hendrix, Sylvester Stallone to Salvador Dalí, Luther Vandross to Teddy Pendergrass. He is also credited with inventing the “celebrity chef,” and has worked with Nobu Matsuhisa, Emeril Lagasse, Wolfgang Puck, Roger Vergé, and many others. In this wonderfully engaging memoir, the captivating entertainment legend recalls his life, from his humble beginnings as a shy, unambitious kid growing up on Long Island to his unexpected rise as one of the most influential and respected personalities in show business, revered for his kindness, charisma—and fondness for a good time. Gordon shares riotous anecdotes and outrageous accounts of his freewheeling, globe-trotting experiences with some of the biggest celebrities of the past five decades, including his first meeting with Janis Joplin in 1968, when the raspy singer punched him in the face. Told with incomparable humor and heart, They Call Me Supermensch is a sincere, hilarious, behind-the-scenes look at the worlds of music and entertainment from a consummate Hollywood insider.