Mikael Uhlin's Marxology @ marx-brothers.org

Love Is Sweeping The Country

Rich man, Poor man, Thief, Doctor, Lawyer and Chief were characters in I'll Say She Is and like Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief from the film Stork Club, I've included this song on the site because of the similar use of the old rhyme. Both songs may also be used in my Film Fantasy. Love Is Sweeping The Country was written in 1931 by George and Ira Gershwin for the Show Of Thee I Sing, the first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize. Horse Feathers was Paramount Picture's biggest hit of 1932 but a reorganization of the company brought fears that money due the Marxes would never be paid and the contractual dispute culminated in the team threatening to go it alone as Marx Bros., Inc. Their first independant film was to be Of Thee I Sing with Norman McLeod leaving Paramount as director. However, the problems were solved and the Marxes stayed at Paramount to make Duck Soup, which was a political satire like Of Thee I Sing.