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CLEVELAND, Ohio – “If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I’d be glad to do it for you.” That’s a line from an old Groucho Marx movie. “If you could kick the person in the pants ...
Groucho Marx is sitting at dinner in London in 1964 when his host, the poet and critic T.S. Eliot, asks him to do the quippy, pun-filled speech from the trial scene in his 1933 film “Duck Soup.” ...
By then, Groucho Marx was in his 70s, and Dick Cavett was just starting out. Nevertheless, ... after his then-classic movie career had ended, Groucho Marx was a late-night talk show habitué.
After the Marx Brothers retired from movie-making, he became a radio star. Groucho moved his show to television in 1950 and was suddenly as popular as he’d ever been in his 60s.
So, in this book, I have him from the mid-1940s, which is kind of after the Marx Brothers’ movie career and before he did You Bet Your Life, because I’d never drawn him from that era ...
He watched the Marx Brothers movies (there were some 13) and explored Groucho’s time as the host of the game show, “You Bet Your Life,” from the late 1940s to the 1960s, and everything else ...
Groucho Marx was born in 1890; his best movies were made by 1935; he met the show’s host in 1961 and was first on Dick Cavett’s talk show when he was 77 years old. And he makes you laugh every ...
Geoffrey Rush, in an interview at KVIFF 2024, spoke about AI, his new film with John Lithgow and a Groucho Marx movie.
Britney Spears’ ‘Hold It Against Me’ is based on a Groucho Marx joke. In addition to being a movie star, Marx also hosted a show called You Bet Your Life.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – “If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I’d be glad to do it for you.” That’s a line from an old Groucho Marx movie. “If you could kick the person in the pants ...
Groucho Marx is sitting at dinner in London in 1964 when his host, the poet and critic T.S. Eliot, asks him to do the quippy, pun-filled speech from the trial scene in his 1933 film “Duck Soup.” ...