Fratelli Marx. Anarchia a Hollywood

PRIMA PARTE Nel primo ventennio del secolo scorso Mack Sennett, già collaboratore di David Wark Griffith, lanciò su vasta scala una serie di comiche che avevano per protagonisti dei maldestri poliz...

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Fratelli Marx. Anarchia a Hollywood

PRIMA PARTE Nel primo ventennio del secolo scorso Mack Sennett, già collaboratore di David Wark Griffith, lanciò su vasta scala una serie di comiche che avevano per protagonisti dei maldestri poliz...

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Horse Feathers (1932)

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.

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Duck Soup (1933)

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

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Monkey Business (1931)

Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.

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Animal Crackers (1930)

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

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WonkTV: (Early) Cocktail Hour With Writer David Avallone!

Mimosas are also fine.

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spurred on by The Marx Brothers Council Podcast, which I discovered last night, I'm #nowplaying #nowwatching now revisiting Animal Crackers, which I first saw in revival movie houses in the 1970's
#Groucho
#Harpo
#Chico
#zeppo
#MargaretDumont
#LillianRoth (poor thing!)
Zeppo - Solidarité antinationale ( feat Nibor Faute de frappe )

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