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Call No: 81MAR MAR
Author: Marx, Groucho
Place: Lond.
Publisher: Joseph
PubDate: 1967]
PhysDes: 319p
LON: flu00025006; 8782126

Call No: 82 MAR
Author: Marx, Groucho; Anobile, Richard J.
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: W.H. Allen
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: 256 p. : ill. ; 29 cm
Subject: MARX BROTHERS; MARX, GROUCHO
Summary: "Nobody could follow the Marx Bros. It was impossible! Jack Benny talks about his encounter with the Marx Bros. whose act he tried to follow on stage during a vaudeville tour. And the Marx Bros.still go it strong in this unique book, as Groucho, Gummo and Zeppo talk about themselves, each other, and everyone else with whom they were involved on and off stage for 45 years in vaudeville, the theater, and finally (when they were all forty and famous) in movies. Now for the first time, Groucho Marx, at age 83, recalls it all - from butcher shop to the fabulous years on the screen. Exclusive and extended interviews between Groucho and Richard J. Anobile are the heart of the story and there are supplementary interviews with Gummo and Zeppo Marx as well as other performers, writers and directors associated with the Marx Brothers. Zeppo, on the team: "I ended up doing something I didn't want to do and it got to the point where I had to get out or else wind up with a nervous breakdown." Gummo, on Chico: "Chico's friends were producers who gambled, actors who gambled, and women who screwed." Susan Marx, of her 28-year marriage with Harpo: "I made him laugh and he made me laugh. We had fun. He was the kindest man. The kindest man." And of Groucho: "He has driven three wives to drink, not to mention his children." Candor is just one element of this fascinating book. For the first time in print the reader is treated to a comprehensive, vivid, and hilarious account of the early years of the Marx Bros. They shared the stage with stars like Sarah Bernhardt, Jack Benny, Will Rogers and W C Fields. And finally the films, on which their fame will ride for all time. Groucho especially talks about 'A Night at the Opera" and the brothers respect and admiration for the man responsible for that film, Irving G. Thalberg. But again, something differrent in this book: accounts of what it was like to work with them, by such men as George Seaton (in an interview that will delight every movie buff who can read), Robert Florey, Morrie Ryskind, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin and others. -BOOK JACKET
ISBN: 0491012926
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
Contents: -- Contents-- Chapter 1 -- Groucho page 11 -- Gummo page 19 -- Photos page 26 -- Chapter 2 -- Groucho page 39 -- Jack Benny page 43 -- Photos page 47 -- England, 1922 page 54 -- Chapter 3 -- Groucho page 72 -- Morrrie Ryskind page 78 -- Photos page 84 -- Chapter 4 -- Groucho page 111 -- Robert Florey page 115 -- Photos page 118 -- England, 1931 page 142 -- Chapter 5 -- Groucho page 146 -- Harry Ruby page 152 -- Arthur Sheekman page 154 -- Photos 157 -- Chapter 6 -- Groucho page 172 -- Zeppo page 174 -- Chapter 7 -- Susan Marx page 177 -- Alexander Woollcott and Harpo Letters page 183 -- Photos page 200 -- Chapter 8 -- Groucho page 202 -- Harry and Morrie Guss page 207 -- George Seaton page 208 -- Nat Perrin page 212 -- Photos 215 -- Photos of the Stateroom scene page 223 -- Photos of The Tutsie-Fruitsie scene page 235 -- Photos page 241 -- Chapter 9 -- Groucho page 251 -- Index page 254

Call No: 81 MAR MAR
Author: Marx, Groucho
Source: UK
Publisher: Futura
PubDate: 1975, c1963
PhysDes: 224 p. : ill. ; 18 cm
Subject: MARX, GROUCHO; COMEDIANS
ISBN: 0860071421
ID2: 223