Word: groucho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your Life (Wed. 9 p.m., CBS). Groucho Marx returns...
...first job in Wall Street ("I went right up the ladder: runner, board boy, bond salesman-and then I was fired"). A script he wrote for Mimic Eddie Garr gave him a start in radio. Then he began satirizing Tin Pan Alley songs at private parties and convulsed Connoisseurs Groucho Marx and Danny Kaye with such numbers as The Girl With the Three Blue Eyes and I Looked Under a Rock and Found...
...Like watching the March hare playing tricks on an indulgent mad hatter," said the Manchester Guardian of Harpo & Chico Marx, now appearing on the London stage (Groucho was at home). The London Times burbled: "What makes these great clowns is this combination of fun and fantasy with something else, a mixture of worldly wisdom and naïveté, of experience but also of an innocence never altogether lost, of dignity and absurdity together, so that for a moment we love and we applaud mankind...
...motion picture of almost classic proportions Groucho Marx once tried to get his brother Chico to sign a contract which contained a sanity clause. "Ha, you canta fools me," Chico argued, "there is no Sanity Clause...
Best Comedian: Groucho Marx in You Bet Your Life (ABC), "the only man on the air who can work without a script and bat off a brilliant succession of witticisms...