Groucho and W.C. Fields
Author | : Wes D. Gehring |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781617034039 |
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Author | : Wes D. Gehring |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781617034039 |
Author | : Simon Louvish |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781844835157 |
Meet Groucho Marx by a miracle of time travel. Sit back and enjoy his hilarious showbiz tales and his surreal flights of fantasy. A fictional dialogue based on biographical facts.
Author | : Lee Siegel |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300174454 |
The cultural and psychological roots of Groucho Marx's genius are explored, uncovering the source of the performer's outrageous intellectual acuity and hilarious insolence toward convention and authority in his early upbringing and Marx family dynamics. -- Publisher's description.
Author | : Stefan Kanfer |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2001-05-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0375702075 |
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 | : James Curtis |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Provides a revealing glimpse of the man and artist behind the image of the gin-guzzling misanthrope, discussing Fields' Philadelphia childhood, his career in vaudeville, his turbulent personal life, and his seminal film work.
Author | : W.C. Fields |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 613 |
Release | : 2016-02-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1630761729 |
Fields never got around to writing his autobiography, but at his death in 1946, he left behind a vast assortment of notes, outlines, scrapbooks, letters, scripts, scenarios, and photographs. Now his grandson, Ronald J. Fields, has edited and woven this wealth of previously unpublished material into a unique new portrait of the Great One--in his own words. This book establishes the true facts about W.C. Fields's early years: how, around 1895, he really got started juggling; how met his future wife Hattie; and how he felt about his incessant tours, triumphs, and film career.
Author | : Charlotte Chandler |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 1114 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1471105857 |
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 | : Joseph Mills |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1443808350 |
In 1905 Julius Marx began his vaudeville career with the singing group The Leroy Trio and was abandoned in the middle of the tour. It was an inauspicious start for the person who would become "Groucho." A hundred years later, the Marx Brothers have permeated our culture from the plastic noses and glasses worn at parties to a Smithsonian exhibition which explains DNA recombination using A Night at the Opera. Although they completed relatively few films together, the brothers have become icons, recognizable even to people who have never seen their movies. Most scholarly work on the Marx Brothers has focused on biographical aspects of their careers and lives; A Century of the Marx Brothers suggests a myriad of other useful approaches to their film and stage productions. The collection's eleven essays examine the Marx Brothers' work from a number of critical perspectives ranging from reader-response theory to film semiotics. The contributors include international scholars in a variety of fields, such as literature, cultural studies, performance studies, and film history.
Author | : Wes D. Gehring |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 1987-07-28 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0313031878 |
This bio-bibliography was designed to present a combined biographical, critical, and bibliographical portrait of the Marx Brothers. It examines their significance in film comedy in particular, and as popular culture figures in general. The book is divided into five sections, beginning with a biography which explores the public and private sides of the Marx Brothers. The second section is concerned with the influences of the Marx Brothers as icons of anti-establishment comedy, as contributors to developments in American comedy, as early examples of saturation comedy, and as a crucial link between silent films and the talkies. Three original articles, two by Groucho and one by Gummo, comprise part three. A bibliographical essay, which assesses key reference materials and research collections, is followed by two bibliographical checklists. Appendices containing a chronological biography with a timeline, a filmography, and a selected discography complete the work.
Author | : Simon Louvish |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2000-06-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780312252922 |
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.