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Forum - Night in Casablanca - novelisation"Why A Duck?" @ marx-brothers.org |
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RichardAShaw
Cabinet Minister Posts: 4
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posted 02 February 2000 06:01 PM
I have been collecting books by and about the Marxes for some years and have recently been trawling the web to get bibliographies etc to see what I may be missing. One book which I own which seems to be absent from every list I have seen is the novelisation (believe it or not!) of 'A Night in Casablanca'. The copy I have is from 1946, and may have only been published in England. It was written by D.L. Ames and published by Hollywood Publications Ltd of London (who presumably are long-since defunct). Is any of the Marxian community out there aware of this? I'm just curious as to whether anyone else knows about it or even has a copy. Thanks, |
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Kornblow
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posted 04 February 2000 01:27 PM
Nobody knew about this! You must have the only copy in the whole wide world! |
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Franko
Grand Exalted Imperial Almighty Omnipotent Stomper Posts: 114
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posted 04 February 2000 07:18 PM
There's always a wiseacre... Well I, for one, have never heard of the existence of this particular novelisation (nor, in fact, any novelisations of Marx movies). It seems to me you have a real find there. When you're through reading it, we'd welcome an essay comparing and contrasting the book with the movie! Frank ------------------
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RichardAShaw
Cabinet Minister Posts: 4
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posted 05 February 2000 01:48 PM
I have now found reference to this in 3 places 1. Glenn Mitchell's encyclopedia under the 'Books' entry 2. An appendix in Allan Eyles 'Their World of Comedy' 3. Stefan Timphus' Winsome Foursome site, which quotes Eyles' brief comment on the book. Mr. Timphus has also informed me that he too has a copy, though he says it is quite rare. Frank, I assume 'Kornblow' will be able to provide you with one of the presumably many copies he has cluttering up his bookshelves. I assume he could also let us know the number of copies in the initial print run and how many are still known to be in existance? Actually, I'm going to assume that his comment was not mean-spirited (as it came across) but merely a Groucho-esque attempt at sarcasm. Unfortunately, sarcasm is very diffcult to translate into the written word. Groucho could do it, which is why his written work is successful. Most of us can't, which is why neither I, nor I strongly suspect, 'Kornblow' is a sucessful author of humourous prose. regards
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BIBLIO
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posted 08 February 2000 03:32 PM
A few years ago the Fredonia Gazette did a bunch of articles listing every book ever printed on the Marxes. They included the Night in Casablanca book, along with a lot of others I never heard of. I guess most lists don't include it because it's not really a book "about" the brothers. In the same way, most lists exclude the published scripts to Animal Crackers and Room Service, and usually even their film scripts.
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Pinniped
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posted 27 February 2000 02:42 PM
Roger Fillary not only has a copy of this book, but has done a complete scan of it and posted the entire contents to his website at http://www.crosswinds.net/~marxoutofprint/ I find it a little too difficult to read in this format, myself, but one can at least skim and look at the pictures... --Pinniped@san.rr.com |
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