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Marx Brothers
Marx Brothers team of American movie comedians. The members were Julius (1890?-1977), known as Groucho; Arthur (1888?-1964), originally Adolph and known as Harpo; Leonard (1887?-1961), known as Chico; and two other brothers, Milton (Gummo) and Herbert (Zeppo), who had both left the act by 1935; all... Read more
farce
farce light, comic theatrical piece in which the characters and events are greatly exaggerated to produce broad, absurd humor. Early examples of farce can be found in the comedies of Aristophanes, Plautus, and Terence. During the Middle Ages the term farce designated interpolations made in the chur... Read more
S. J. Perelman
S. J. Perelman (Sidney Joseph Perelman) , 1904-79, American comic writer, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. He entered the magazine world as a cartoonist for a New York weekly, soon turning from drawing to writing. Perelman became known for the parodic articles filled with outrageous puns and lively wordplay that... Read more
vaudeville
vaudeville , originally a light song, derived from the drinking and love songs formerly attributed to Olivier Basselin and called Vau, or Vaux, de Vire. Similar to the English music hall , American vaudeville was a live entertainment consisting of unrelated songs, dances, acrobatic and magic ... Read more
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , 1870-1924, Russian revolutionary, the founder of Bolshevism and the major force behind the Revolution of Oct., 1917. Early Life Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, at Simbirsk (later called Ulyanovsk in his honor), he was the son of a school and civil service official and... Read more
motion pictures
motion pictures movie-making as an art and an industry, including its production techniques, its creative artists, and the distribution and exhibition of its products (see also motion picture photography ; Motion Picture Cameras under camera ). Origins Experiments in photographing mov... Read more
history
history in its broadest sense, is the story of humanity's past. It also refers to the recording of that past. The diverse sources of history include books, newspapers, printed documents, personal papers, and other archival records, artifacts, and oral accounts. Historians use this material to form ... Read more

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The Marx Brothers
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography The Marx brothers The Marx brothers were American stage and film comedians whose lunatic antics dominated...changed. Although all were living in New York, the three experienced Marx brothers — Chico, Harpo, and Groucho — worked separately... Read more
Marx Brothers, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Marx Brothers, The, comedians. The riotous team consisted of five brothers: Chico (né Leonard...television quiz program. The brothers have been the subject of plays...Speaks , 1961; biographies: The Marx Brothers , Kyle Crichton, 1950; Life with Groucho , Arthur Marx (his ... Read more
Marx Brothers
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Marx Brothers US team of vaudeville and film comedians. The Marx Brothers consisted of Chico ( Leonard, 1891–...latter withdrew from the group in 1935. Marx Brothers' riotous, wisecracking comedies include... Read more
Cocoanuts, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...lyrics). [ Lyric Theatre , 276 perf.] A vehicle for the Marx Brothers , this daffy musical produced by Sam H. Harris was set in Florida where hotelier Henry W. Schlemmer ( Groucho Marx) is trying to sell swamp land off as prime real estate. It...x2010;filled, uproarious show that changed each night as ... Read more
Forty-Fourth Street Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...In 1915 there was a season of classical repertory, but later the theatre reverted to light opera and musicals. The Marx Brothers had a long run in Animal Crackers (1928), and the outstanding production of 1930 was an adaptation of Aristophanes... Read more
Kalmar and Ruby
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...New York (1923), followed by such hits as The Ramblers (1926), The Five O'Clock Girl (1927), Good Boy (1928), and the Marx Brothers vehicle Animal Crackers (1928). After a brief Hollywood career in the 1930s, they were last represented on Broadway... Read more
S. J. Perelman
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...musical One Touch of Venus (1943) and the comedy The Beauty Part (1962). He penned screenplays for such movies as the Marx Brothers ' Monkey Business (1931) and Horse Feathers (1932) and the comic epic Around the World in Eighty Days (1956, Academy... Read more
Socialism
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...movement, popularized by the brothers George and Frederick Evans...the German philosophers karl marx and Friedrich Engels introduced...intellectual investigation, Marx and Engels identified a historical...facilities to produce goods. Marx and Engels predicted the disappearance... Read more
Woollcott, Alexander
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...captured in print with an immediacy unmatched in our time.” He wrote paeans of praise on Mrs. Fiske and the Marx Brothers but detested many of Eugene O'Neill 's best plays. His books, often filled with theatrical criticism and reminiscences... Read more
Lana Turner
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...wholesome good looks that he introduced Turner to Zeppo Marx, a member of the Marx Brothers comedy team, who also ran a casting agency for the film industry. Marx immediately recognized what Wilkerson had seen in Turner and introduced her to Warner Brothers' film director Mervyn LeRoy, who ... Read more

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Marx Brothers, The
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers THE MARX BROTHERS Nationality: American. CHICO. Born...for the unequalled achievements of the Marx Brothers in the art of motion picture comedy...Groucho as "God") Publications By MARX BROTHERS: books — Beds by Groucho Marx... Read more
Marx Brothers
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Marx Brothers a family of American comedians, consisting of the brothers Chico (1886–1961), Harpo (1888–1964), Groucho (1890–1977), and Zeppo (1901–79). Their films, which are characterized by their anarchic humour, include... Read more
Duck Soup
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...1972. Books: Crichton, Kyle, The Marx Brothers , New York, 1951. Marx, Harpo...York, 1961. Eyles, Allen, The Marx Brothers: Their World of Comedy , London...Paul, and Burt Goldblatt, The Marx Brothers and the Movies , New York, 1968... Read more
A Night at the Opera
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...York, 1951. Crichton, Kyle, The Marx Brothers , New York, 1951. Marx, Arthur...York, 1957. Eyles, Allen, The Marx Brothers: Their World of Comedy , New York...Paul D., and Burt Goldblatt, The Marx Brothers and the Movies , New York, 1968... Read more
Freed, Arthur
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...served during World War I as sergeant. Career: Piano player for music publisher, Chicago; later appeared with the Marx Brothers and Gus Edwards in vaudeville; toured in vaudeville, and began writing songs and special material (first hit song... Read more
Mankiewicz, Herman
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...x2013; 32 — produced four films, including two Marx Brothers comedies; 1939 — began association with the director...Dope (Nottingham), December 1987. Turan, Kenneth, "The Brothers Mankiewicz: A Gold Touch," in the Los Angeles Times... Read more
Chervenkov, Vulko
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Bulgarian Communist Party 1949–54 Born at Slatiza (near Sofia), he joined the Communist Party in 1919. He went to the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow, where he became an instructor, and an agent for Comintern . During World War II, he worked for the... Read more
Naturalism
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...exclusively, applied to novels. French writers such as the Goncourt brothers and É mile Zola pioneered naturalism in the late 1860s...in particular Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and Karl Marx's theory of class struggle. These influences suggest why naturalists... Read more
Kozintsev, Grigori
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS), 1921; with Trauberg, made first film, 1924; with Trauberg, prepared film on life of Karl Marx (unrealized), 1939 – 40. Awards: Stalin Prize for the Maxim Trilogy, 1941; Lenin Prize for Hamlet , 1965. Died: In Leningrad... Read more
Keaton, Buster
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...x2013; 39 — starred in 16 comedies for Educational Pictures; 1935 — became uncredited gag writer for the Marx Brothers and in the 1940s for Red Skelton's features; 1939 – 41 — appeared in ten two-reelers for Columbia; from... Read more

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zany
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus zany • adjective  the zany humor of the Marx Brothers synonyms : eccentric, peculiar, odd, unconventional, strange, bizarre, weird; mad, crazy, comic, madcap, funny, quirky, idiosyncratic... Read more

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I WONDER WHATEVER BECAME OF ME?(examination of the Marx Brothers and their work)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: CineAction; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; A NOTE ON THE MARX BROTHERS Give me your tired, your poor, Your...Liberty Ever since I started seeing the Marx Brothers' films in the 1930s (the later ones...intimate man/woman relationships. But the Marx Brothers' films can hardly be described as... Read more
The comic world of the Marx Brothers' movies; "anything further father?".(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2007; 144 words ; 9780838641248 The comic world of the Marx Brothers' movies; anything further father...biographical information about the Marx Brothers vaudeville beginnings, along with...one. The last chapter discusses Marx Brothers movies in context with other comedies... Read more
William C. Marx, Jr.(DEATHS)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 9/30/2007; 140 words ; WORCESTER William C. Marx, Jr., of Worcester, died on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at...in Springfield, MA he was the son of the late Dr. William C. Marx, D.M.D. and Helen (Vyn) Marx. He was a graduate of Holyoke High School and attended Holyoke... Read more
Bishop condemns HLI leader's remarks. (Archbishop Harry Flynn of St. Paul and Minneapolis angered by remarks from Human Life international's Paul Marx)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 4/11/1997; ; 422 words ; ...chairman Benedictine Fr. Paul Marx. Flynn categorized the statements...harmful, especially to our Jewish brothers and sisters. I will asked instead...complaints by area Jewish groups that Marx's organization, a leading anti-aborti...espouses anti-Semitic views. Marx is quoted in the ... Read more
Brothers ink 10-year deal with Kushner Co.(Henry Bros. Electronics, Inc.)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 8/23/2006; 165 words ; ...commercial real estate services firm Studley: Christopher B. Marx, senior managing director, Rochelle Park, N.J., Joe Messina...Inc. and Airolite Communications, Inc., at one address, said Marx. The new Fair Lawn location is a mere six miles from Saddle Brook... Read more
Marxist Rebellion.(Review)
Magazine article from: Reason; 11/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers, by Simon Louvish, New York: St...25.95 Salvador Dali loved the Marx Brothers so much he wrote a screenplay...Finnegans Wake. At the same time, the Marx Brothers were popular with a mass audience... Read more
Groucho and Leo in the soup.(REEL WORLD)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; THE MARX BROTHERS' Duck Soup (1933) is one of the watershed films of American cinema...the expense of a pun (a comic device much favored by McCarey and the Marx Brothers), this ingenious routine obviously foreshadows the minor scene from... Read more
A harvest of cocoanuts, (dancetheater by choreographer Richard Sabellico)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 11/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Irving Berlin's The Cocoanuts, the Marx Brothers's first musical comedy vehicle...written as a vehicle for the Marx Brothers before they were famous, I wanted...needn't have worried. The three Marx Brothers look-alikes, brilliantly played... Read more
The need to beat somebody up: PBS offers an in-depth look at 'Bush's War'.(Opinion & ARTS)(Public Broadcasting Service)(Television program review)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 3/21/2008; ; 700+ words ; In Duck Soup, the Marx Brothers' satire on the irrationality of war, Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho), dictator of the republic of Freedonia, arbitrarily slaps the ambassador... Read more
(book reviews)
Magazine article from: Journal of Popular Film and Television; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...instructive writers on film comedy. His books on Chaplin, Fields, the Marx Brothers, and screwball comedy are indispensable. In this study he places...structure is made even more difficult by the close focus on Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin in chapter 3, after it seemed as though... Read more