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(In Hollywood, no less) along with the other 12 Marx Bros. features projected on the big screen.Within hours of our arrival, I spotted an ad for a Saturday night, dusk-to-dawn marathon -- all thirteen Marxes projected back-to-back in chronological order! I'm pretty sure that it was at the Vista, but my current advanced state of Moviezheimer's doesn't allow me to say for certain. to satisfy my wicked adolescent crush on Hayley Mills), but it did mark two other milestones: the first time I watched more than two movies in a row and my first midnight movie.
Once again, my mother's paranoia, this time over her baby boy spending almost twenty hours alone in a strange theatre in an even stranger city, presented a roadblock. I attended five-years of Hebrew school, four-months of which were spent locked in bad-breath Rabbi Hershkowitz's cramped, non-air conditioned office studying my maftir , at that time the Holy Grail of Marxdom. Paramount failed to renew the soundtrack rights in 1957, and they reverted to the authors of the Broadway production: the playwrights George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, the composer Harry Ruby, and the lyricist Bert Kalmar.
When Universal acquired the 700 titles in the pre-1949 Paramount package in 1959, they decided it wasn't worth the trouble needed to untangle the miles of red tape, and Crackers was a private screening during my tenure as MoPA's film curator. The 35mm print that arrived from the Universal vaults still had the numbered lab bands, indicating where it was struck, wrapped tightly around each reel. It was a virgin print without so much as a cue mark punched in it.
No one on the MoPA staff would take me up on my offer of an afternoon getaway to Sylvania, so I sat 'neath the twinkle lights, alone, still laughing like a loon after over 200 times.
Y'know, something tells me that before tonight is over, the Duck Soup Comments Duck Soup is probably the best... but my kids and I love Go West. (hey, a rhyme!) The scene in Go West when they're chopping up the train to feed the engine fire in pretty fantastic. Fun Marx Bros. moment: I knew my son was hitting puberty when he belly laughed at a particular Groucho quip. It's during a Night at the Opera -- a gypsy man on stage cracks his whip and makes a gypsy woman's skirt fall off. Groucho, seated in the house, does a double lift of his eyebrows and says, "Now we're getting somewheres.
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It wasn't until I cashed in my Bar Mitzvah present, a round-trip Delta flight to Los Angeles, that I saw Duck Soup (in Hollywood, no less) along with the other 12 Marx Bros. features projected on the big screen. Within hours of our arrival,
The Marx Bros. output at MGM was nowhere near as uncontrolled as that of their Paramount years. Credit cultivated producer Irving Thalberg for starting the Marxes on their long, slow celluloid decline.
It was in seventh grade that I first met the Marx Brothers proper and have the "Boone Booster Club" of the Daniel Boone School to thank for arranging the introduction. The "Club" was a pre-home video perk
And it will be asked again to much audience delight when Schaumburg Summer Theatre restages the Marx Brothers' Broadway (and later Hollywood) hit, The Cocoanuts, at the Prairie Center for the Arts. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm,
They bonded through a mutual need for breaking conventions through anarchy, which was expressed on stage through comic vaudevilles mimicking Marx Brothers irreverence (Is is any wonder that, before the age of home videos, the late 60s saw a renewed
Yes to most all of these. Casablanca is one of my favs. The Marx bros--not so much. Father Goose? Hm-m... But tis Cary Grant
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Coincidence or not? The rest of the Marx Bros videos were uploaded today? Hmmm power of social media! :-D
HEAVENLY DAYZ: "What - Me Worry?" will be the next Marx Bros. vehicle at Retro RKO. The boys are on a roll. Goes before the cameras on 9/7.
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