Marx Brothers

...that hung in there and finally did make it. Duck Soup (1933) The Marx Brothers were big by the time this plot boiled, with moneymakers like "Monkey Business" and "Horse Feathers" to their credit. But "Duck Soup" was hampered by battles with...

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...further info, visit rivertorivernyc.com. On your Marx! Get set! Go! - to the Museum of Modern Art, which is unreeling three zany Marx Brothers comedies through Wednesday. In "Monkey Business" (1931), Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo stow away...

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...(1928), Cheyenne (1929), and The Cisco Kid (1931). Later film roles tended to get smaller and uncredited, such as his bit in The Marx Brothers's Monkey Business '' (1931), although one of his last parts, "third vampire" opposite Bela...

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...came to fruition). The film is most notable for a six-minute short starring the Marx Brothers -- with Ben Taggart playing Mr. Lee, Theatrical Producer -- intended to promote their forthcoming film Monkey Business ''. The short film,...

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...Tintoretto will turn out to be a product of the Jurassic after all! (Cue canned laughter.) That's about it - other than the fact that the Marx Brothers monkeyed about on a ship a bit like this one in a great old film called Monkey Business.

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...in Paris. It is caustic, clever and appropriately wacky, the set somehow calling to mind that ocean liner the Marx Brothers could never quite escape in "Monkey Business," complete with a gangplank into the audience. One character...

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...Attorney? Bozo the Pope?" asks Seinfeld. The term is used in a clear derogatory sense in the 1931 Marx Brothers film, Monkey Business - Alky Briggs (Harry Woods ): "Say, I can help you Bozos!" Groucho: "Mr. Bozos to you!" Alky Briggs:...

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...Cary Grant borders on Groucho Marx a few times, and To Be of Not To Be. That said, there are five or six Marx Brothers movies that I prefer to anything on the list. They are A Night at Opera, Duck Soup, A Day at the Races, Animal Crackers,...

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...anarchic tendencies. This is the first Marx Brothers film not to feature Margaret Dumont, this time their female foil is comedienne Thelma Todd, who would go on to star in the Marx Brothers' next film, Horse Feathers. A few years after the...

In this article: Monkey Business, Harpo Marx, A Day at the Races, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Thelma Todd, Horse Feathers, and Maurice Chevalier