Essential Groucho Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx

Name: Essential Groucho Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx
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ISBN: 9780375702136

ISBN-10: 037570213X

ISBN-13: 9780375702136

Edition: 2000

Authors: Stefan Kanfer

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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…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/13/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English



Introduction


"I know that you are true to the Army. I only hope it remains a standing Army." The Napoleon Sketch from I'll Say She Is!


"You can even get stucco - oh, how you can get stucco." Dialogue from The Cocoanuts


"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas." Dialogue from Animal Crackers


"You bet I'm shy. I'm a shyster lawyer." Dialogue from Monkey Business


"There'll be no diving for this cigar." Dialogue from Horse Feathers


"Go, and never darken my towels again!" Dialogue from Duck Soup


"I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters." Dialogue from the lost radio shows, Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel


"You haven't got a baboon in your pocket, have you?" Dialogue from A Night at the Opera


"Say, you're awfully large for a pill." Dialogue from A Day at the Races


"I had dinner with my celebrated pen pal, T. S. Eliot." From The Groucho Letters


"Right from the feedbag." Covering Groucho


"I am sometimes jealous of my past." From fugitive comic pieces and articles by Groucho Marx


"I'll never forget my wedding day ... they threw vitamin pills." Selections from You Bet Your Life