Word: groucho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 pantomime. 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...
Sued for Divorce. Julius ("Groucho") Marx; by Ruth Marx; after 21 years; in Los Angeles. She charged the loping, rapid-fire comedian with causing her "physical pain and mental anguish...
...Molotov - "a small man with a Groucho Marx mustache." He always looked "as though he [was] watching someone else sucking a lemon...
...after the war), International Lady is more effective as a warning to Americans to beware of wealthy Long Island fifth columnists than as a creepy spy melodrama. Unintentionally funny shot: Detective Rathbone, disguised as a mustachioed butler, looking like a cross between a caricature of himself and a blond Groucho Marx...
...Regis Toomey and Jane Wyman (3 min. 5 sec.). A citizens' committee of Lilypons, Md., appointed Lily Pons honorary Mayor. (The town was named in honor of the opera singer nine years ago.) "I'm never going to get behind that phony mustache again," declared Julius ("Groucho") Marx. "The mustache is out for good." The New York Times published an editorial in protest...