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Author | : Matthew Coniam |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2016-08-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476663734 |
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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 Many rare photographs are included, along with new and previously unpublished interviews.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 | : Groucho Marx |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2009-06-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0786748273 |
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"An important contribution to the history of show business and to the saga of American comedy and comedians, comics and comicality."--James Thurber 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.
Author | : Matthew Coniam |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2016-08-04 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476625972 |
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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 | : Groucho Marx |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2007-08-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1416536035 |
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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 | : Groucho Marx |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780140294255 |
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From early scripts to complete screenplays, from magazine articles to fascinating personal correspondence, Kafner's collection captures the essence of Groucho's inimitable comic genius.
Author | : Stefan Kanfer |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2001-05-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0375702075 |
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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 | : Lee Siegel |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2016-01-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300216637 |
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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 | : Groucho Marx |
Publisher | : New American Library of Canada |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Comedians |
ISBN | : 9780671292706 |
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Author | : Simon Louvish |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781844835157 |
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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 | : Peter Tyson |
Publisher | : Chelsea House |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780791023419 |
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Traces the life of Groucho Marx, and looks at his work in vaudeville, on Broadway, in motion pictures, and on television