Photographs, letters, and other memorabilia are combined with interviews with Groucho and comments by personalities who have been associated with the celebrated Marx Brothers

The Marx Brothers Scrapbook

Anobile, Richard J.

MARX, GROUCHO

Humor & Entertainment

Harpercollins

The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx

No personage is too big, no nuance too small, no subject too far out for Groucho's spontaneous, hilarious, and ferocious typewriter. He writes to comics, corporations, children, presidents, and even his daughter's boyfriend. Here is Groucho swapping photos with T. S. Eliot (”I had no idea you were so handsome!”); advising his son on courting a rich dame (”Don't come out bluntly and say, 'How much dough have you got?' That wouldn't be the Marxian way”); crisply declining membership in a Hollywood club (”I don't care to belong to any social organization that will accept me as a member”); reacting with utmost composure when informed that he has been made into a verb by James Joyce (”There's no reason why I shouldn't appear in Finnegans Wake . I'm certainly as bewildered about life as Joyce was”); responding to a scandal sheet (”Gentleman: If you continue to publish slanderous pieces about me, I shall feel compelled to cancel my subscription”); describing himself to the Lunts (”I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there”); and much, much more. That mobile visage, that look of wild amazement, and that weaving cigar are wholly captured, bound but untamed, in The Groucho Letters.

Movies

Da Capo Press

"An important contribution to the history of show business and to the saga of American comedy and comedians, comics and comicality."--James Thurber With impeccable timing, outrageous humor, irreverent wit, and a superb sense of the ridiculous, Groucho tells the saga of the Marx Brothers: the poverty of their childhood in New York's Upper East Side; the crooked world of small-time vaudeville (where they learned to carry blackjacks); how a pretzel magnate and the graceless dancer of his dreams led to the Marx Brothers' first Broadway hit, I'll Say She Is!; how the stock market crash in 1929 proved a godsend for Groucho (even though he lost nearly a quarter of a million dollars); the adventures of the Marx Brothers in Hollywood, the making of their hilarious films, and Groucho's triumphant television series, You Bet Your Life! Here is the life and lunatic times of the great eccentric genius, Groucho, a.k.a. Julius Henry Marx.

Groucho And Me

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

In Memoirs of a Mangy Lover Groucho turns his manic eyebrows and spirited cigar to the ever-perplexing affairs of the heart while fully addressing the Marxian passion for poker. This wacky eclectic book includes Groucho's improbable tales of true romance; his irreverent observations on talent, luck, and what this country really needs; his battles with pigeons and hotel detectives; an account of a blind date who knew a comedy when she saw it (even if it was Death of a Salesman ); the "reason" for Harpo's silence; Groucho's unnatural history of love, which traces its unruly evolution from amoeba to alimony; his view on polygamy (and how to attain it); the stunning parallels between Groucho and Lawrence of Arabia; and, of course, plenty of blondes, brunettes, and redheads. So why buy a duck, when instead you can own the Memoirs of a Many Lover ?

Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover

Here are Groucho's improbable tales of true romance, narrated with his characteristic panache and illustrated with splendid New Yorker-esque cartoons.

Comics & Graphic Novels

Comic Strips

Da Capo

His two companions dead, food and supplies vanished in a crevasse, Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp.On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface.  Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling, and one night he discovered that the soles of his feet had completely detached from the flesh beneath. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizably skeletal, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, Which one are you?  This thrilling and almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place as one of the greatest polar explorers and expedition leaders. It is illustrated by a trove of Frank Hurley s famous Antarctic photographs, many never before published in the United States. 24 pages of illustrations

Alone on the Ice

W.W.Norton

Physical description; 217 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Marx, Groucho (1890-1977). You bet your life (Television program). Moving-picture actors and actresses - United States - Biography. Cinema films - Acting - Marx, Groucho - (1890-1977) - Biographies.

The secret word is Groucho

PUTNAM

Groucho and Me: The Autobiography

Groucho and Me

With timing, humor, and sense of ridiculous, Groucho tells the saga of the Marx Brothers: the poverty of their childhood in New York's Upper East Side, the adventures of the Marx Brothers in Hollywood, the making of their films, and Groucho's triumphant television series. Here is the life and lunatic times of the great genius, Groucho, a.k.a. Julius Henry Marx.

Ams Pr Inc

The secret word is Groucho [Jan 01, 1977] Marx, Groucho

Berkley Pub. Corp.

Marx Bros. Scrapbook

WARNER BOOKS

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The Marx Brothers Scrapbook

The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx

Groucho And Me

Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover

Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover

Alone on the Ice

The secret word is Groucho

Groucho and Me

The secret word is Groucho

Marx Bros. Scrapbook