Groucho and W.C. Fields
Author: Wes D. Gehring
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781617034039
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Coffee with Groucho
Author: Simon Louvish
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781844835157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Groucho Letters
Author: Groucho Marx
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-08-14
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1416536035
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Groucho
Author: Stefan Kanfer
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2001-05-08
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0375702075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Groucho Marx
Author: Lee Siegel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0300216637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
W.C. Fields
Author: James Curtis
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 632
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Comic World of the Marx Brothers' Movies
Author: Maurice Charney
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780838641248
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Comic World of the Marx Brothers' Movies: Anything Further Father? is the first book to consider the Marx Brothers in the context of comic theory and practice. It includes a gag analysis of three famous scenes: the stateroom scene in A Night at the Opera, the mirror scene in Duck Soup, and the tootsie-frootsie ice cream scene in A Day the Races.
Hello, I Must Be Going
Author: Charlotte Chandler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-12-11
Total Pages: 1114
ISBN-13: 1471105857
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Acting Professionally
Leo McCarey
Author: Wes D. Gehring
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780810852631
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This first full-length biography of a legendary and award-winning Hollywood writer, producer, and director (Duck Soup, My Favorite Wife, An Affair to Remember, Going My Way, and The Bells of St. Mary's) explores the director's life as filtered through his art. Gehring maintains that McCarey's films were often a reworking of his antiheroic self. In addition, the apparent diversity of his films actually represents an interrelated web of various comedy genres and a pattern of antiheroic characters and themes.
