This site may not be the Marx Brothers resource on the WWW, but it is certainly a Marx Brothers resource on the WWW. Click on any of the links herein for all kinds of goodies...
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Marx of Time will tell you what happened today in Marx Brothers history. Birthdays, anniversaries, movie premiers, radio and television appearances...They're all covered here. And in many cases entries are accompanied by pictures and links to sounds not available elsewhere at this site.
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Greetings From "Why A Duck?" -- Postcards for all occasions for all the Marxists on your mailing list. Choose from a large selection of pictures and add your own background colors and background music from Marx Brothers movies and stage shows.
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What's New? (This section has been moved to the Miscellaneous and News pages.
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Career Info is the meat of the site. It features information about the Marx Brothers' lives and careers, including appearances on stage, in films, and on radio and television.
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Pictures does not only feature publicity shots of the brothers and screen shots from their films -- it also contains pages of photos of Marx fans at various gatherings, and even a page devoted to pets named for Marxian characters.
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Audio & Video is devoted to sound and video clips, presented in
Windows WAV format and RealAudio®/RealVideo®.
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Games used to fall under the "Miscellaneous" section, but there are enough games running now to warrant a separate section. So stop by and play a round of
Hangman, Mad Libs, or
Concentration, all with a
Why A Duck? bent!
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Marxes In The Sky is a stargazer's take of the lives and personalities of the Marx Brothers, coming to us from professional astrologer and long-time Marx fan
Kathy Biehl. Kathy has written extensive interpretations of each of their natal charts, as well as a comparison of what their charts say about their relationships to the driving force behind the act -- their mother Minnie. (You may read more of Kathy's observations in her
Field Guide to Astrological Types at her award-winning
Cafe Compendium site.)
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Miscellaneous is a catch-all description of the section of this site containing all the information that doesn't fit elsewhere. Here you will find loads of resources too numerous to mention.
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The Marxist Communication Center is a quick list of the best ways to contact other web-cognizant Marxists using the best resources the Internet has to offer.
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The Marxist Merchandise Center is your one-stop shop for Marx goodies. Shop online for books, CDs, video and audio cassettes, and more! You may also check out items being sold by other Marxists and post your own items to buy, sell, and trade.
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Oscar Marx is the public opinion portion of this site. Stop by this page right away and vote for your favorite movie, character, song and much more!
Please note: The old version of the survey, which was initiated on July 4, 1998, has been replaced as of August 24, 2000. Some of the categories and selections have changed and, of course, the results have been reset. However, if you're interested in seeing the final results of the old version,
please click here.
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Links features a comprehensive list of links that really get me in an uproar. And if you want other fans to visit your own favorite sites, you can post links to those here as well.
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Why 'Why A Duck?' is just a short piece about how this site came to be.
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Credits is the place where I thank all the people without whom this site would not have been possible.
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Feedback is a page offering you a few ways of getting in touch with us.
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Privacy Policies is where you can learn exactly what type of information we collect from our users and how this information is used. (If you are a parent, this information is especially important.)
©1995-2006, Frank M. Bland
The pages under www.marx-brothers.org/whyaduck were originally created by Frank Bland for his site www.whyaduck.com.
Frank did kindly give me permission to use the contents of his site.
If you find text referring to "I" or "me" on pages under www.marx-brothers.org/whyaduck, this will usually refer to Frank.
