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- "A Night at the Opera" (live, kind of) in Maple Ridge, BCCity Opera Vancouver presents "A Night at the Opera with The Marx Brothers
Feb 6, 2022, 2pm at the The ACT Arts Centre, Maple Ridge. They will perform opera repertoire parodied in the film, with some antics thrown in, to set the stage for the full screening of the film. Click here for more information. - The Marx Brothers Council podcast
- Today in Marx History
- "An Evening with Groucho" - tour dates
Frank Ferrante is touring with his show "An Evening with Groucho".
Click here for information about his current tour dates and other projects.
Recent publications Books / Audio / Video
Books and articles by members of the Marx family about the Marx Brothers or the Marx family
Fleming Marx, Susan, with Robert S. Bader: Speaking of Harpo
From the publisher: "Her story is the counterpoint to the beloved and acclaimed Harpo Marx autobiography, 'Harpo Speaks!'. Susan's frank, opinionated perspective provides a true look behind the curtain and details Harpo's last years, following the publication of his own book."
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Books about the Marx Brothers, their films etc.
Bader, Robert: (Zeppo Marx biography)
(forthcoming)
Frank, Josh; Heidecker, Tim; Pertega, Manuela (Illustrator) : Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Greatest Movie Never Made
From Amazon: "It sounds like fan fiction, but it's true: modern art icon Salvador Dali struck up a friendship with chaotic pantomimer Harpo Marx, which led to a proposed film, Giraffes on Horseback Salad. Rejected by MGM studios, the script was thought lost forever[sic]. But author Josh Frank found it, and with comedian and writer Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric; Tim & Eric's Zone Theory) and Spanish artist and comics creator Manuela Pertega, he's recreated the film that Dali and the Marx Brothers would have made...as a graphic novel that presents the story in all its full-color, fully cinematic, fully surreal glory."
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- (français) Nouveau Monde Éditions, Paris, FR, 2021, ISBN: 2 369 43842 8 titled: La Femme Surréaliste Check availability (commissions earned*):        |
Hoberman, J.: Duck Soup (BFI Film Classics)
From the publisher: "Hoberman's analysis provides a historical and political context as well as an in-depth production history, drawing on primary sources and emphasizing director McCarey's prior work along with the Marx Brothers as well as the situation at Paramount, a substantial synopsis, and an account of the movie's initial reception, concluding with its subsequent elevation to comic masterpiece."
"Hoberman provides a lot of background information. This book may not be for the uninitiated, but for any Marx Brothers fan this is a good read." (ST)
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- British Film Institute (Bloomsbury), London, UK, 2021, ISBN: 1 8390 2225 6 Check availability (commissions earned*): |
Vega, Sergi: Lo que el doblaje se llevó: Los Hermanos Marx (Vol. I)
This book is an annotated guide to to the bits which got lost in translation when dubbing "Duck Soup" and "At the Circus" into Spanish.
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Weir, Robert E.: The Marx Brothers and America
"The Films in Historical Context"
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- McFarland & Co, Jefferson, NC, 2022, ISBN: 1 476 688954 8 Check availability (commissions earned*): |
Books in which the Marx Brothers appear as characters
Pérez-Arévalo, Juan Carlos: Groucho's
Play. "Adolfo returns home one day to find his father dressed up and behaving like Groucho Marx."
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- (español) ViveLibro, 2021, ISBN: 84 188 4039 0 / (paperback) Check availability (commissions earned*): |
Pachter, Josh (ed.): Monkey Business (Crime fiction inspired by the films of the Marx Brothers)
"A Who’s Who of award-winning crime writers pays homage to the Marxes in fourteen short stories, each inspired by one of the brothers’ thirteen studio films."
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- Untreed Reads (click here to buy directly from the publisher), 2021, ISBN: 1 95360 166 9 Check availability (commissions earned*): |
Palmer, Stuart: You Bet Your Life
Palmer wrote several novels and stories featuring Hildegarde Withers, a spinster schoolteacher who is an amateur sleuth. "[In this story] Miss Withers goes on the TV show as a contestant - a set-up - to announce that she knows the whereabouts of a missing crook. ... Groucho makes an appearance and banters with her on the show for a few lines before the plot takes off. Palmer could be authentic because he had been on the Oct 21, 1954 episode. ... The story's a trifle, but still a nice addition to any collection." (SC)
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- in: "Hildegarde Withers: Final Riddles?", Crippen & Landru, Cincinnati, OH, 2021, ISBN: 1 93636 356 9 Check availability (commissions earned*): |
Books and articles which mention the Marx Brothers in a larger context
Keyser, Gawie: Kijken maakt gelukkig
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- (nederlands) Walburg Pers, Zuphten, Netherlands, 2021, ISBN: 94 624 9707 9 |
Books and articles by and about colleagues and contemporaries of the Marx Brothers
Laight, Jane Margaret Laight and Pitts, Reginald H.: Majesty of Missed Chaos: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont
(forthcoming)
Marx Brothers Movies
A Night at the Opera (1935)
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- Blu-Ray: Warner, 2021 / Extras: Feature Commentary, Featurettes: 'How To Sleep' & 'Los Angeles: Wonder City of the West', Remarks on Marx, Sunday Night at the Trocadero, Groucho Marx on the HY Gardner Show , Theatrical Trailer / Check availability (commissions earned*):
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