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Joe Morris
Old Love
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 Posted - 21/01/2011 : 20:45:22
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VERY entertaining book on the Duck Soup film (Hail, Hail, Euphoria! - by Ray Blount Jr) is a VERY entertaning book on the team
Hail hail Freedonia, land of the brave and free! |
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bob f.
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 22/01/2011 : 23:33:53
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".....Whatever it is....I'm against it!" -Groucho
...what the world needs now... |
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Joe Morris
Old Love
3492 Posts |
Posted - 23/01/2011 : 00:53:34
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no no thats HORSEFEATHERS!! 
color footage of the Marx Bros (from Animal Crackers):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xJn49Fk8Fc
20 seconds long and STILL better watching than Love Happy (their last film!) |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 24/01/2011 : 14:14:59
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I'll have to get that book! They're great..the comical satirists... they reign with anarchy!
heidi heidi heidi heidi heide ho!!.... |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 24/01/2011 : 19:59:12
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Is there much about Margaret Dumont in the book?...my favorite Marx Brothers victim. She was such a good sport but had no clue half the time wheat their humor was about.
She was one of those perfect matches made in heaven to compliment the boys' zany, satiric humor.
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Joe Morris
Old Love
3492 Posts |
Posted - 25/01/2011 : 05:12:30
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definitely the book goes into Mrs T (Mrs Teasdale)
the best book on the 4 is probably
Groucho Harpo Chico and sometimes Zeppo
by Joe Adamson
and on NO account watch Love Happy (the last Marx bros film!) |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 25/01/2011 : 14:17:58
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She was one of those perfect matches made in heaven to compliment the boys' zany, satiric humor.
Yeah..there's a one liner that I always love with her. Groucho I think was wining and dining her and they were constantly moving around from place to place so he says and I'm paraphrasing "the next time we go steady remind me to get a moving van" or something like that! |
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Joe Morris
Old Love
3492 Posts |
Posted - 26/01/2011 : 02:03:08
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my current favorite scene is the first scene of Night at the Opera, when Groucho has his meal with his back to her, she doesn't even know hes there
Groucho of course passes along the bill to the blonde hes with (sadly NOT the late great Thelma Todd)
At'sa fine! |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 26/01/2011 : 14:04:00
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not sure but what's supposed to be their greatest scene?
I'd figure it was the one where their stateroom on a ship fills up with people one at a time. |
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Joe Morris
Old Love
3492 Posts |
Posted - 26/01/2011 : 19:08:59
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I'm partial to the ice cream scene in A Day at the Races, their last great MGM film
you could say that Duck Soup is a film of great scenes (the interview of Chico for the Minister of War position with Groucho, the courtroom trial with the dreadful puns, Harpo imitating EVERY ONE of Groucho's tricks in the mirror scene, Groucho singing about graft and how hes gonna rip off everyone in the opening scene of Duck Soup
of course Chicolini and Pinky as spies for Trentino is wonderful, though why he sticks with them DESPITE immediately losing Fireflys record.. |
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captain america and billy
Old Love
907 Posts |
Posted - 24/03/2011 : 14:28:53
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| Funny someone mentions it here. I'ver been chedcking out videos for free from some libraries and have looking high and low for the Marz Bros. classic. Guess I'll just have to but it. I have,however,found some other real gems icluding the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night",and "Yellow Submarine". I already own "Help!" and "The U.S. Vs. John Lennon". Have you seen this last title. Not just for fans of John, but for anyone born too late who interested in a very informative piece about the political zeitgeist of the times. |
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Joe Morris
Old Love
3492 Posts |
Posted - 25/03/2011 : 04:00:40
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give the early films (up to A Day at the Races) a go
But At the Circus onward.. yikes! and Love Happy is the worst film they ever did, and thankfully it was their worst |
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captain america and billy
Old Love
907 Posts |
Posted - 25/03/2011 : 18:36:26
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| Yeah, I guess after a while, it was basically alot of the same type gags ad nauseum. In their prime,though,hilarious and clever. I recently thumbed through some of the autobiography of Groucho's son Arthur. Apparently, teh Grouch was alot like in the movies with many personal moments full of comic improv. Perhaps his most famous disciple is Woody Allen. Recently saw "Manhattan" and "Sleeper". These as well as several other of his titles never tire. |
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Joe Morris
Old Love
3492 Posts |
Posted - 26/03/2011 : 01:54:03
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Harpos book is a lot of fun
theres some color footage of the Marx Brothers (from Animal Crackers) up on Youtube, along with Harpo (accidentally) speaking
Play it again Sam is unusual for Woody - its on the west coast; his films have been really bad of late though.. Cassandra's Dream.. did anyone even go see that?!
I'm about to watch Interiors, then a little September, the odd Another Woman
Annie Hall's the one I always return to - I like how each of them call each other Max!
give the (Woody Allen) comic strip a miss though! Not as good as his stand up act! |
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RE new book on Marx bros Duck Soup is EXCELLENT
