Word: groucho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Groucho Marx let a "beautiful young lady" out of his sedan in Los Angeles and drove into a telephone pole. Treated at a hospital for bruises and a possible rib fracture, he explained: "I was looking at her in the rearview mirror, or rolling up the windows, or something...
There can be no question about it; Bob Hope is about the funniest comic the movies have had since the departure of Groucho Marx, and it will still take the Moviegoer a long time to get tired of him. His fertile mind and the rather more fervent than fertile minds of his gag-writers (three of whom, he claims, are beavers) have made good pictures out of the most terrible ones, and they have done it once again with "Let's Face It." No matter how stale the plot or how vile the odour of his surroundings, Hope spring eternal...
...Groucho Marx has always claimed that if Ruby's father and Joe Di Maggio were in a burning building, and only one could be saved, Ruby would save Joe. "After all," agrees Ruby, "my father doesn...
...snake her way through a radiobroadcast love scene, Theda Bara, 52, siren of the early silents, emerged from 20-odd years of retirement. Her victim was goggle-eyed Groucho Marx. The studio audience found the famed vamp about 30 Ib. heavier than in her salad days, but still trim in the legs, hypnotic in the eyes. They also found her afflicted with stage fright. The ex-siren told reporters she did the stunt as a favor to friends, had no idea of trying a comeback, then returned to the curio-cluttered mansion where she has long been one of Hollywood...
...action that makes "They Got Me Covered" a five-star, on-the-nose, A-1 priority laff fest. Give me Groucho Marx for slapstick and Charlie Chaplin for pantomine. No, Hope is best when he is talking. He has a microphone personality and a master-of-ceremonies approach. Unlike your fat-and-thin combos (Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Maxwell & Winchell), with Hope the ceremonies themselves don't seem to matter. Nobody cares what this quipping correspondent is doing; they just want to hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They...