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Happy Birthday, Groucho Marx
Here’s Groucho Marx’s letterhead. One of Groucho Marx’s letters to Peter Lorre, having to do with Ulysses that makes me so happy. Peter Lorre, sending Groucho a book explaining James Joyce’s Ulysses?? This makes me feel that the world is … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Peter Lorre
A letter from Groucho Marx to Peter Lorre (included in the wonderful The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx), that pleases me no end. October 5, 1961 Dear Peter: It was very thoughtful of you to send me … Continue reading
The best sound in the world
Mum, Bren and I sat downstairs. We were watching It’s a Wonderful Life. From upstairs we heard guffaws – or, more accurately, HOWLS – of laughter from 11-year-old Cashel. He was HOWLING. We laughed just hearing the sound. The howls … Continue reading
The Books: “The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx”
Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx When I was a senior in high school, I dated a guy who was an insane Marx Brothers fan, and still is today. And so it … Continue reading
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Tagged entertainment biography, Marx Brothers, Peter Lorre, T.S. Eliot
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Letters
The following exchange of letters pleased me so much. Groucho Marx to E.B. White EB White’s response How much do I want to join those two for cocktails and see what they talk about!!?
“some drunk dame”
Some drunk dame told [James Thurber] at a party that she would like to have a baby by him. Jim said, “Surely you don’t by unartificial insemination!” — Nunnally Johnson, letter to Groucho Marx, Oct. 9 1961
“greatly enhanced my credit line”
The picture of you in the newspaper saying that, amongst other reasons, you have come to London to see me has greatly enhanced my credit line in the neighborhood, and particularly with the greengrocer across the street. — TS Eliot, … Continue reading
Groucho Marx on W.C. Fields: “Today he’d probably be arrested.”
Groucho Marx to Roger Ebert, in 1972: “I knew [W.C.] Fields well. He used to sit in the bushes in front of his house with a BB gun and shoot at people. Today he’d probably be arrested. He invited me … Continue reading
100 Funniest Performances
Part 2, by Alex. Such good stuff. We’ve got Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator, and Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck. And Alex’s commentary! A couple snippets, but you really have to go read the whole thing: On Groucho: Groucho Mark … Continue reading