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The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act that was successful in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in 14 motion pictures from 1905 to 1949.Five of the Marx Brothers' fourteen feature films were selected by the American Film Institute (AFI) as among the top 100 comedy films, with two of them, Duck Soup (1933) and A Night at the Opera (1935), in the top fifteen.
Animal Crackers is a 1930 American pre-Code Marx Brothers comedy film directed by Victor Heerman.The film stars the Marx Brothers, (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo), with Lillian Roth and Margaret Dumont, based on the Marxes’ Broadway musical of the same name.
It was the first appearance of the three Marx Brothers together in the same scene since A Night in Casablanca in 1946. They had previously appeared in individual scenes in The Story of Mankind in 1957, and in pairs in Love Happy in 1949 (Chico and Harpo appear together; Groucho is in one brief shot with Harpo in the chase scene, and Chico is in ...
A 'Big Wheel,' manufactured by Marx Toys, is displayed at the Hagen History Center in Erie. ... Scully's family received toys each Christmas from the mid-1960s until 1975 courtesy of family friend ...
The Big Store is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo and Chico) that takes place in a large department store. Groucho appears as private detective Wolf J. Flywheel (a character name originating from the Marx-Perrin radio show Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel in the early 1930s).
The Big Short grossed $70.3 million in the United States and Canada and $63.2 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $133.4 million, against a production budget of $50 million. [ 3 ] The film was released in eight theaters in Los Angeles , New York , San Francisco and Chicago on December 11, 2015, and earned $705,527 (an average of ...
The character Capt. Calvin Spaulding from the television show M*A*S*H, played by Loudon Wainwright III, was named after the Marx character. The horror film character Captain Spaulding, who appears in several works by Rob Zombie (including House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, and 3 From Hell), is named after the Marx character. [4] [5]
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