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While Groucho Marx was entertaining show business friends at a 1973 party, an employee at an NBC warehouse called and announced that the network was discarding its inventory of You Bet Your Life film prints to make room for newer series. The network was willing to give the reels back to Marx for free.
Marx as main host of You Bet Your Life, 1953. You Bet Your Life debuted in October 1947 on ABC radio (which aired it from 1947 to 1949), sponsored by costume jewelry manufacturer Allen Gellman; [26] and then on CBS (1949–50), and finally NBC. The show was on radio only from 1947 to 1950; on both radio and television from 1950 to 1960; and on ...
"Hooray for Captain Spaulding" is a song composed by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, originally from the 1928 Marx Brothers Broadway musical Animal Crackers and the 1930 film version. [1] It later became well known as the theme song for the Groucho Marx television show You Bet Your Life (1950–1961), and became Groucho's signature tune and was ...
Mesannie Wilkins on You Bet Your Life, with Groucho Marx. Journeying through Massachusetts, Wilkins was treated to a full Thanksgiving meal. In Springfield, the hotel where she stayed displayed a sign that read: "Washington Slept Here". When they left, the private box stall that Tarzan had slept in display a sign which read: "Tarzan Slept Here."
Fenneman is best remembered as the announcer and good-natured sidekick for Groucho Marx's comedy/quiz show You Bet Your Life. He won the audition as the radio show's announcer in 1947. [16] Fenneman stayed with the show when it moved to television in 1950, [17] on NBC where it remained for 11 years. Fenneman was known as "Groucho Marx's man ...
The longtime Beverly Hills, Calif., home of the late comic legend Groucho Marx -- the one where he carved his initials into the wet cement on the driveway and again by the pool -- just sold for $5 ...
Ronnie Schell and Goldie Hawn in Good Morning World (1967). Ronald Ralph Schell (born December 23, 1931) is an American actor and stand-up comedian.He appeared on the May 28, 1959, episode of the TV quiz show You Bet Your Life, hosted by Groucho Marx.
Harmon was a contestant during the last season of Groucho Marx's television program You Bet Your Life (titled The Groucho Show during its last season), and later a regular on Marx's short-lived program Tell It to Groucho (credited as "Patty Harmon").