Groucho

Author : Arthur Marx,Robert Fisher
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573670501

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Groucho by Arthur Marx,Robert Fisher Pdf

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 : Stefan Kanfer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375702075

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Groucho by Stefan Kanfer Pdf

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.

Author : Groucho Marx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416536031

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The Groucho Letters by Groucho Marx Pdf

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

Author : Lee Siegel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300216639

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Groucho Marx by Lee Siegel Pdf

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 : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1617034037

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Groucho and W.C. Fields by Wes D. Gehring Pdf

Author : Ron Goulart
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250090942

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Groucho Marx, Private Eye by Ron Goulart Pdf

Groucho Marx made the transition from screen to paper in Ron Goulart's widely acclaimed first novel, Groucho Marx, Master Detective, where he debuted as a radio star-cum-private eye. Groucho and Frank aren't enjoying their latest costar, singing child prodigy Polly Pilgrim, a spoiled ingenue. When a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon is found dead in his palatial home, and Polly's mother, the faded actress Frances London, is accused of his murder, Polly's request for Groucho and Frank to help prove her mother's innocence surprises them. She is convinced that Frances has been framed, and despite the mounting evidence against the washed-up perfromer, the pair takes on the case.

Author : Arthur Marx
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015003844910

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Son of Groucho by Arthur Marx Pdf

An intimate and candid portrait of the great comedian by the man who know him best. This book abounds with vignettes of the celebrities drawn into the Marx orbit with close-ups of Groucho's famous siblings and of his three wives.

Author : Matthew Coniam
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476663739

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That's Me, Groucho! by Matthew Coniam Pdf

Groucho Marx's career as a solo performer began long before the Marx Brothers and lasted almost until the end of his life, with a series of controversial sold-out concerts in his eighties. In between came several films, numerous television and radio appearances, theater performances, dramatic acting and writing and his smash hit radio and TV quiz show You Bet Your Life (1947-1961). This first ever comprehensive study of his work without his famous brothers reveals a Groucho perhaps unfamiliar to the public. Driven to prove he was much more than just a comedian with a greasepaint (later real) mustache, Groucho always thought of himself as essentially a solo performer and strove for individual success in his professional life--and to balance (if not always successfully) his career with his family life. Many rare photographs are included, along with new and previously unpublished interviews.

Author : Ron Goulart
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250090874

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Groucho Marx, Master Detective by Ron Goulart Pdf

"Hilarious." - Kirkus Review In this inventive mystery set in Hollywood's golden era, Ron Goulart revives America's favorite cigar-wielding comic--Groucho Marx. Needing a project to occupy him between movie stints, Groucho agrees to act in a radio serial. But when a beautiful starlet is found dead before production even begins, Groucho is determined to find out who killed her.

Author : Robert S. Bader
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781557839213

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Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales by Robert S. Bader Pdf

(Applause Books). Groucho Marx was a comic genius who starred on stage and in film, radio, and television. But he was also a gifted writer the author of a play, two screenplays, seven books, and over 100 articles and essays. This newly expanded collection presents the best of Groucho's short comic pieces, written over a period of more than fifty years between 1919 and 1973 for the New York Times , the New Yorker , the Saturday Evening Post , Variety , the Hollywood Reporter , and other newspapers and magazines. Here is the one and only Groucho on his family, his days in vaudeville, his career, World War II, taxes, and other topics from his love of a good cigar to his chronic insomnia, from "Why Harpo Doesn't Talk" to "The Truth About Captain Spalding." The familiar irreverence, wordplay, and a dash of self-deprecation bring Groucho's wisecracking voice to life in these pages, firmly establishing him as one of the world's great humorists. Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales (a title of Groucho's own choosing) is essential reading for Marx Brothers fans, and a hilarious and nostalgic trip through the twentieth century.

Author : Stefan Kanfer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-13
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780375702136

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The Essential Groucho by Stefan Kanfer Pdf

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.

Author : Tricia Brown
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780882409399

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Groucho's Eyebrows by Tricia Brown Pdf

Groucho’s name is obvious to Kristie when she names her new kitten. He’s as white as a cloud everywhere except for those two black smudges above his eyes. What other name could she have given him? Kristie and Groucho become fast friends and playmates, reading together, snuggling under the quilt, and playing hide?and?seek, tracking games in the snow of a far north winter. When Grouch wanders away one wintery day, Kristie must rely on her Alaskan outdoor skills and woodsy savvy to follow various animal tracks. Young readers join her in a search for those precious black eyebrows in a scary, snowy world full of moose, fox, and other creatures of the wild.

Author : Arthur Marx
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000029491820

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My Life with Groucho by Arthur Marx Pdf

The author shares his memories of his father and provides an overview of Groucho's career, his family life, and the turmoil of his final years.

Author : Charlotte Chandler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1114 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471105852

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Hello, I Must Be Going by Charlotte Chandler Pdf

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.

Author : Hector Arce
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015011217547

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Groucho by Hector Arce Pdf

From the Peter Neil Issacs collection.