"up his hands and replying, ""Don't shoot me! I'm only the piano player!"" was so amusing that Elton John reused it as the title of a 1973 album. An added Marx homage was that a poster for the Marx Brothers' movie ""Go West"" was included on the cover art. Two albums by British rock band Queen, ""A Night at the Opera"" (1975) and ""A Day at the Races"" (1976), are named after Marx Brothers films. In March 1977, Groucho invited Queen to visit him in his Los Angeles home; there they performed ""'39"" a cappella. A long-running ad campaign for"
"Groucho Marx Julius Henry ""Groucho"" Marx (; October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, writer, stage, film, radio, and television star. A master of quick wit, he is widely considered one of America's greatest comedians. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show ""You Bet Your Life"". His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture, glasses, cigar, and"
"Captain Spaulding""—done entirely in French. Groucho Marx Julius Henry ""Groucho"" Marx (; October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, writer, stage, film, radio, and television star. A master of quick wit, he is widely considered one of America's greatest comedians. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show ""You Bet Your Life"". His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated"
"He appeared in four subsequent Universal Frankenstein films, as well as many other of the studio's beloved chillers. His other roles include a romantic lead opposite Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's ""The Devil Is a Woman"" (1935), a crooked insurance investigator in ""The Wrong Road"" (1937) for RKO, Dr. James Mortimer in 20th Century Fox's film version of ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"" (1939), and Professor Moriarty in the Universal Studios film ""Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon"" (1943). He also had a rare comedy role in Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 classic ""To Be or Not to Be"" and that"
"Captain Spaulding"" and ""Hello, I Must Be Going"", in ""Animal Crackers"", ""Whatever It Is, I'm Against It"", ""Everyone Says I Love You"" and ""Lydia the Tattooed Lady"". Frank Sinatra, who once quipped that the only thing he could do better than Marx was sing, made a film with Marx and Jane Russell in 1951 entitled ""Double Dynamite"". In public and off-camera, Harpo and Chico were hard to recognize, without their wigs and costumes, and it was almost impossible for fans to recognize Groucho without his trademark eyeglasses, fake eyebrows, and mustache. The greasepaint mustache and eyebrows originated spontaneously prior to"
"first notable examples of breaking the fourth wall in his movies with Stan Laurel, when he would often stare directly at the camera to seek sympathy from viewers. Groucho Marx spoke directly to the audience in ""Animal Crackers"" (1930), and ""Horse Feathers"" (1932), in the later film advising them to ""go out to the lobby"" during Chico Marx's piano interlude. Comedy films by Mel Brooks, Monty Python, and Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker frequently broke the fourth wall in some, such that with these films, ""the fourth wall is so flimsy and so frequently shattered that it might as well not"
"Groucho Marx in ""At the Circus"" in 1939, and ""Happiness is a Thing Called Joe"", for Ethel Waters in the 1943 movie ""Cabin in the Sky"". Arlen was a longtime friend and onetime roommate of actor Ray Bolger, who starred in ""The Wizard of Oz"". In the 1940s, he teamed up with lyricist Johnny Mercer, and continued to write hit songs like ""Blues in the Night"", ""Out of this World"", ""That Old Black Magic"", ""Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive"", ""Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home"", ""Come Rain or Come Shine"" and ""One for My Baby (and One More for the"
"marble or wax and inferior to the acting abilities of Robert De Niro, saying, ""Eastwood moves like a sleepwalker between explosions and hails of bullets, and he is always the same—a block of marble. Bobby first of all is an actor, Clint first of all is a star. Bobby suffers, Clint yawns."" Eastwood later gave a friend the poncho he wore in the three films, where it was hung in a Mexican restaurant in Carmel, California. Director Sergio Leone noted that the film's main theme is its emphasis on violence and the deconstruction of Old West romanticism. Like many of"
"said during an evening spent with Groucho Marx. After an evening of constant ribbing from Marx, Elton's comeback was to hold his hands up and say, ""Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player."" The album's cover photograph, which shows a young couple outside a movie theatre whose marquee reads: ""Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player starring Elton John"", also includes a movie poster of the Marx Brothers' film ""Go West"". Whether this was an intentional tribute to Groucho, or merely a coincidence, is uncertain. The title is also a play on the 1960 François Truffaut film ""Shoot"
"Groucho Marx] scream and grimace through a succession of topsy-turvy scenes, some of them mildly amusing and others relentlessly dull."" ""Variety""'s reviewer recognized that ""Miss Miranda handled neatly the semi-dual role, shining in the comedy, as well as the French and Brazilian staccato songs."" The film was released on DVD by Republic Pictures through Artisan Entertainment in 2003. In 2013, Olive Films released a new DVD and Blu-ray of the film. Copacabana (1947 film) Copacabana is a 1947 American musical comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green starring Carmen Miranda and Groucho Marx. The film is a showcase for Miranda,"
"the 1932 film ""Horse Feathers"", Groucho performs the film's love theme ""Everyone Says I Love You"" for costar Thelma Todd on a Gibson L-5. Irving Berlin quipped, ""The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl"". In his book ""The Groucho Phile"", Marx says ""I've been a liberal Democrat all my life"", and ""I frankly find Democrats a better, more sympathetic crowd... I'll continue to believe that Democrats have a greater regard for the common man than Republicans do"". However, just as some of the other Democrats of the time, Marx also said"
"sell more ad time, putting his job on the line. In ""Everyone Says I Love You"" (1996), Woody Allen and Goldie Hawn dress as Groucho for a Marx Brothers celebration in France, and the song ""Hooray for Captain Spaulding"", from ""Animal Crackers"", is performed, with various actors dressed as the brothers, striking poses famous to Marx fans. (The film itself is named after a song from ""Horse Feathers"", a version of which plays over the opening credits.) Harpo Marx appeared as himself in a sketch on ""I Love Lucy"" in which he and Lucille Ball reprised the mirror routine from"
"Edward Norton Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards for his work in the films ""Primal Fear"" (1996), ""American History X"" (1998) and ""Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)"" (2014). He also starred in other roles, such as ""The People vs. Larry Flynt"" (1996), ""Fight Club"" (1999), ""Red Dragon"" (2002), ""25th Hour"" (2002), ""Kingdom of Heaven"" (2005), ""The Illusionist"" (2006), ""Moonrise Kingdom"" (2012) and ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" (2014). He has also directed and co-written films, including his directorial debut, ""Keeping the Faith"" (2000). He"
"Busby Berkeley who helped him get in touch with the right people at Paramount, where the two are said to have worked on films together. Hecht's first assignment at Paramount was directing two dance ensembles in the Marx Brothers' college football comedy film ""Horse Feathers"". One of the numbers Hecht directed was ""I'm Against It"", a scene where Groucho Marx, playing Quincy Adams Wagstaff, is first installed as the new headmaster of Huxley College. Hecht trained Groucho alongside twenty elder actors, aged 61 to 77 years old, with naturally grown beards and dressed in academic gowns. Considering that his first"
"of the same name (featuring a foreword by Groucho) which focuses on the minutiae of the Marx Brothers' routines. The duck is a recurring reference throughout the Marxes' and especially Groucho's career. His signature walk was called ""the duck walk"" and on Groucho's television program ""You Bet Your Life"" a stuffed duck made up to resemble Groucho would drop from the ceiling to give contestants money if they said the day's secret word. Ducks are the only animals that perform lines in the song ""Everyone Says I Love You"" in the Marx Brothers' fourth film, ""Horse Feathers"". Their fifth film"
"in the Paramount promotional film ""The House That Shadows Built"" (1931). The concept of the Marx Brothers being stowaways on a ship would be repeated in an episode of their radio series ""Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel"" (1933) in the episode ""The False Roderick"" and would also be recycled in their MGM film ""A Night at the Opera"" (1935). The essence of Groucho's joke, ""Sure, I'm a doctor—where's the horse?"" would serve as an integral plot element for their film ""A Day at the Races"" (1937). Also repeated in that later film would be the uproarious medical examination that Harpo and"
"Hitler – Dead or Alive Hitler – Dead or Alive is a 1942 American propaganda war film directed by Nick Grinde. The plot of ""Hitler – Dead or Alive"" was inspired by true events but takes a quasi-comic tone. In 1939, during the early days of World War II, Samuel Thornton (Russell Hicks), a prominent American businessman, offers a reward of one million dollars to bring Adolf Hitler to justice, dead or alive. He hires three gangster ex-convicts released from Alcatraz prison, Steve Maschick (Ward Bond), Hans ""Dutch"" Havermann (Warren Hymer) and Joe ""The Book"" Conway (Paul Fix). The three"
"true Marx note, is never apparent."" The November 11, 1939 ""Ottawa Citizen"" described the film as ""a veritable riot of hilarity"" and ""possibly the nuttiest of the films that Groucho, Chico and Harpo have perpetuated."" At the Circus At the Circus (also called The Marx Brothers at the Circus) is a 1939 Marx Brothers comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in which they help save a circus from bankruptcy. The movie is notable for Groucho Marx's classic rendition of ""Lydia the Tattooed Lady"". The supporting cast includes Florence Rice, Kenny Baker, Margaret Dumont, and Eve Arden. Goliath, the circus strongman (Nat"
"work predated their Hollywood career. By the time the Marxes made their first movie, they were already major stars with sharply honed skills; and by the time Groucho was relaunched to stardom on ""You Bet Your Life"", he had been performing successfully for half a century. Groucho Marx made 26 movies, 13 of them with his brothers Chico and Harpo. Marx developed a routine as a wisecracking hustler with a distinctive chicken-walking lope, an exaggerated greasepaint mustache and eyebrows, and an ever-present cigar, improvising insults to stuffy dowagers (often played by Margaret Dumont) and anyone else who stood in his"
"Go West Young Man (Groucho Marx song) Go West Young Man was a 1940 song by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby written for the MGM film ""Go West"", originally sung by Groucho Marx, backed by a chorus, who performed solo for the first time in the song. Unfortunately the song was cut from the film. The song was eventually used in the 1947 United Artists film ""Copacabana"" when it was sung again by Groucho. He and Bing Crosby dueted on the song on Crosby's Philco Radio Time show on February 12, 1947. The song was recorded by Bing Crosby and"
"consensus: ""A complex and timely satire with as much darkness as slapstick, Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not To Be delicately balances humor and ethics."" Slovenian cultural critic and philosopher, Slavoj Žižek named it his favourite comedy, in an interview in 2015, where he remarked, ""It is madness, you can not do a better comedy I think"". ""To Be or Not to Be"" was nominated for one Academy Award: the Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. In 1996, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being"
"gave Groucho his column's space, advising his readers: ""On Tuesday, Mr. Groucho Marx, the comedian, will be guest conductor of this column at no increase in prices. Mr. Marx is the man who said (and is still saying in ""Animal Crackers""): 'It would be a happier world for children if parents ate the spinach themselves.'"" The following year, the movie version of ""Animal Crackers"" was released. Groucho wanted Sheekman to come to Hollywood and write for The Boys (as they called themselves). Instead, with Sheekman in Chicago and The Boys in Los Angeles, Sheekman did write for one of them."
"Musical or Comedy and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1985. It earned $234 million at the North American domestic box office, making it the highest-grossing film released in 1984 in the U.S. Young and reckless Detroit police detective Axel Foley's latest unauthorized sting operation goes sour when two uniformed officers intervene, resulting in a high-speed chase through the city which causes widespread damage. His boss Inspector Douglas Todd reprimands Axel for his behavior and threatens to fire him unless he changes his ways on the force. Axel arrives at his apartment to find it has been broken into"
"""Seven Years Bad Luck"", considered by some to be his best film. The film contains one of the earliest (though not the first) examples on film of the ""human mirror"" gag best known in the scene between Groucho and Harpo Marx in ""Duck Soup"" twelve years later. Linder next made ""Be My Wife"" later that year, but again neither films were able to find a major audience in the US. Linder then decided to dispense of the ""Max"" character and try something different for his third (and final) attempt: ""The Three Must-Get-Theres"" in 1922. The film is a satire of"
"or innovation. The earliest film on the list dates from 1913, the latest from 1983. The 1930s is the most represented decade with 24 entries, followed by the 1920s (16) and the 1940s (14). Maurice Elvey, with four films on the list, is the most represented director. The first film on the list is Alfred Hitchcock's 1926 feature ""The Mountain Eagle"", described as ""the Holy Grail of film historians"". Since 2012, the BFI has revealed that a number of the films on the list have been found. As of 2017, 18 of the 75 films have been found in their"
"everybody, wherever they are. Watch the skies everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies."" No actors are named during the film's dramatic ""slow burning letters through background"" opening title sequence, while the cast credits appear at the end of the film. No performers are named in the film's advertising graphics. Many cast members with significant speaking parts are not credited. Appearing in a small role was George Fenneman, who at the time was gaining fame as Groucho Marx's announcer on the popular quiz show ""You Bet Your Life"". Fenneman later said he had difficulty with the overlapping dialogue in the"
"selected. Bruce G. Hallenbeck, author of ""Comedy-Horror Films: A Chronological History, 1914–2008"", compares Peter Venkman to Groucho Marx, who hosted the 1950s quiz show ""You Bet Your Life"". Hallenback said, ""With a quip for every situation, a put-down for everyone who deserves it and an ability to rise above it all, Venkman is a lot like Groucho."" The comparison is also reinforced by the scene in the original movie where, waiting for Dana Barrett to finish the day's rehearsals with the orchestra Peter jogs up and down a bustling New York square hopping on a single foot, alternately, just as"
"last two pictures"" and that the final twenty minutes ""should thrill as well as amuse spectators."" ""Film Daily"" called it ""wildly funny in places, amusing for the most part and dead in one or two spots that a little editing could improve."" John Mosher of ""The New Yorker"" wrote, ""Possibly not the most strenuous Marxian product that we have seen, the picture nevertheless is very satisfactory and quite lunatic enough."" Go West (1940 film) Go West is the tenth Marx Bros. film, in which Groucho, Chico, and Harpo head to the American West and attempt to unite a couple by"
"publicity stills for the film were first taken. Brecher bore a remarkable resemblance to Groucho and is all but unrecognizable in the photos, sporting Groucho's glasses, greasepaint mustache and eyebrows. Thomas M. Pryor of ""The New York Times"" called the film ""an unevenly paced show"" with ""only one really funny sequence,"" referring to the climax. ""Variety"" wrote, ""The three Marx Bros. ride a merry trail of laughs and broad burlesque in a speedy adventure through the sagebrush country,"" adding that the film had ""many fresh situations for the Marxian antics."" ""Harrison's Reports"" wrote that it was ""much better than their"
"— Demolition Man — Edward Sissorhands — Everybody's All-American — Family Man — The Favor — Fear — Fire And Rain — Flight of The Intruder — Foodfight-For Love or Money — Frankie and Johnny — Free Willy — Geronimo: An American Legend — Get Smart Movie — Ghost — Ghost Dad — Godzilla — A Goofy Movie — Grand Canyon — The Great Mouse Detective — The Great Outdoors — Grumpy Old Men — Grumpier Old Men — H.E. Double Hockeysticks — Harry and Son — Heat Wave — Hero at Large — Hide in Plain Sight — Hocus"
"each listed as single entries. These pairs and trilogies of films were directed by Leni Riefenstahl, Satyajit Ray, Francis Ford Coppola, and Peter Jackson, respectively. Martin Scorsese also had three films on the list, which were ""Taxi Driver"" (1976), ""Raging Bull"" (1980), and ""Goodfellas"" (1990). Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Donen, Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, Ernst Lubitsch, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu, Steven Spielberg, François Truffaut, Billy Wilder, and William Wyler all had two films each on the list. Films on the list span a period of 80 years starting with ""Sherlock Jr."" (1924) directed by Buster"
"eye, eye [MCMLXVIII] by Sigma Productions Incorporated, your seat's on fire""). Writer Paul Krassner published a story in the February 1981 issue of ""High Times"" magazine, relating how Groucho Marx ""prepared"" for his role in the LSD-related movie by taking a dose of the drug in Krassner's company, and had a moving, largely pleasant experience. In his 1976 book, ""The Groucho Phile"", Marx (who, having abandoned his trademark greasepaint mustache twenty years prior for ""You Bet Your Life"", returned to using greasepaint for this film) commented that both the movie and his performance as the mob boss God were ""God-awful!"""
"Man with Two Brains"" · 1983 ""Uncommon Valor"" · 1983 ""D. C. Cab"" · 1984 ""Rhinestone"" · 1985 ""Sweet Dreams"" · 1986 ""Wildcats"" · 1986 ""Nothing in Common"" · 1986 ""The Golden Child"" · 1987 ""Beverly Hills Cop II"" · 1987 ""Eddie Murphy: Raw"" · 1988 ""Sunset"" · 1988 ""Big Top Pee-wee"" · 1989 ""Police Academy 6: City Under Siege"" · 1989 ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"" · 1989 ""Black Rain"" · 1989 ""Harlem Nights"" · 1990 ""Another 48 Hrs."" · 1991 ""Soapdish"" · 1991 ""Other People's Money"" · 1992 ""Boomerang"" · 1993 ""Point of No Return"" · 1993"