I Love the Marx Brothers!

[WI_DEM]

Labor Day around here was damp and rainy, so I decided to watch some videos instead. What fun it was to sit back with a couple of friends and some fried chicken and potato salad and watch the Marx Brothers?

We watched "Horse Feathers", "Duck Soup", "A Night at the Opera", and "A Day at the Races". Classics!

I love Groucho, of course, but as I've watched more I have come to appreciate Chico and especially Harpo more than I used to. Of course there was Zeppo too in the earlier films, but what can you say about him except that he was their straight man. Apparently when they appeared on stage filled in for Groucho and Harpo on ocassion and did quite well.

And then there is the "Fifth Marx Brother" Margaret Dumont. Some of my favorite scenes involve Groucho wooing that representative of authority/society which Groucho takes such delight in bringing down:

Dumont: I'm afraid after we're married a while, a beautiful young girl will come along, and you'll forget all about me.

Groucho: Don't be silly. I'll write you twice a week.

In "real life" apparently Dumont didn't get the jokes, according to Groucho, but they liked her and used her whenever possible, which was often.

Do you have a favorite Marx Brothers movie or quote?

[Archae]

1. Did you remember Louis and Karl?

:D

I loved Groucho myself.

Girl-"Hold me closer!"

Groucho-"If I held you any closer I'd be behind you." :rofl:

[Floogeldy]

2. Viaduct?

;)

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Anything further, father?

One of the great mysteries of my life is why I don't own more Marx Brothers films, or any on DVD; I have "Horse Feathers" (my favorite), "Duck Soup" and "Monkey Business" on VHS. But I also have "The Cocoanuts," "Animal Crackers," "A Night at the Opera" and "A Day at the Races" in my Netflix queue. :bounce:

Groucho was the biggest star, of course, but I'm also a huge fan of Harpo. His boyish abandon captivates me — not to mention trying to figure out where he kept all the stuff he pulled out of his clothes.



"I'm Professor Wagstaff of Huxley College."

"That means nothing to me."

"Okay, I'll try again. I'm Professor Huxley of Wagstaff College."

"Well, you didn't stay at the other college very long."

:rofl:

[Duer 157099]

4. "Oh professor! spring in the air!"

"Oh sure, I should spring in the air and fall in the lake?"

********

"Will you take a check for ten dollars?"

"Well I suppose"

"Good. When I get one, I'll send it to you."



TCM recently had an all day marathon and I recorded all of them

[non sociopath skin]

5. From "Duck Soup" ...

Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho): Take a card.

Mrs. Teasdale (Dumont): Card? What will I do with the card?

Rufus T. Firefly: You can keep it. I've got fifty-one left.

The Skin

[windlight]

6. Hello I must be going.

I cannot stay
I came to say
I must be going
I'm glad I came
But just the same
I must be going...

"Animal Crackers"

[Archae]

7. Try to find this record...

An Evening With Groucho, Groucho Marx and Dick Cavett.

Great stuff.

[CBHagman]

8. Love those quotes.

I'm doing this from memory, so forgive me if I get them wrong:

From Groucho in A Night in Casablanca: "I got stood up by a woman and run down by a taxi."

Groucho, again, but I can't recall the film: "I haven't seen so much mud-slinging since the last election!"

Again Groucho, and I think this is from A Day at the Races: "There must be some way to get the money without getting in trouble with the Hays Office."

Another character (Chico?) to Groucho: "You leave, it'll be over my dead body."

Groucho: "Well, that's a very pleasant way to travel..."

:rofl:

[Smooth Operator]

9. a Father's Day song

Today, father, is father's day,
And we're giving you a tie.
It's not much we know,
It's just our way of showing you
We think you are a regular guy.
You say that it was nice of us to bother.
But it really was a pleasure to fuss,
For according to our mother,
You're our father,
And that's good enough for us.
Yes, that's good enough for us.

[kay1864]

10. Favorite quote ever:

"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west, and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does."

(Animal Crackers)

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. 'Now tell me what you know'

"We now find ourselves among the Alps. The Alps are a very simple people, living on a diet of rice and old shoes. Beyond the Alps lies more Alps, and the Lord alps those that alp themselves."

~Horse Feathers



"You got a brother?"
"No."
"You got a sister?"
"Yeah."
"Well, your sister, she's a very sick man; you'd better come with us."
"What happened to her?"
"She had an accident in her automobile."
"Ah, she has no automobile!"
"Well then maybe she's-a fall off a horse; I no look very close. C'mon, we take you in our car."
"Yeah? Well, I have no sister."
"Atsa okay. We no gotta car."

~ibid

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Oops... almost forgot

That bit's my sig line. :7