Word: groucho
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...role, which is an essential of great acting. He simply projects the vibrancy of his own presence. He looks the way Buster Keaton may have as a child-and like a child, he loves to show off and mimic. He is so obviously pleased with himself when he apes Groucho Marx's loping stance or speaks with W. C. Fields' adenoidal sneer that it is difficult for anyone in the audience not to be pleased with him. It is the kind of cool, well-finessed stunting with which a clever boy might regale a proud mother. As such...
...Circus--Not among the Marx Brothers best, but still funnier than anything else around, save their "Night at the Opera." Before this movie is over, Margaret Dumont is shot out of a cannon, and Groucho gets to sing an Arlen-Harburg number about a tattooed lady. At the SYMPHONY II, Huntington at Mass...
...Night at the Opera--George Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind loaded the screenplay with more jokes and comic situations than any movie has a right to have. Groucho, Harpo and Chico are fine and have great foils in Margaret Dumont, Sig Rumann, and the drippy romantic leads, Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones. Very likely the funniest movie ever made. At the SYMPHONY II, Huntington at Mass...
...Prenons la Revolution au serieux, mais ne nous prenons pas au serieux."--voila peut-etre la phraseclef dans ce melange de boutades malines, de jeux-de-mots quasi (ou franchement) obscenes, de citations heroiques. "Je suis marxiste tendance groucho," ecrit un etudiant de Nanterre; "Je jouis dans les paves," declare un autre: nous ne sommes evidement pas parmi de graves doctrinaires. Dans l'ambiance febrile et joyeuse de mai meme les minettes du 16eme aident a la construction des barricades; a la colere, et a la passion anti-gouvernementale se mele un desir incoherent de participer au defi solidaire...
...Night at the Opera--Groucho, Chico and Harpo make fools of Alan Jones and Kitty Carlisle. At the SYMPHONY 2, 262 Huntington...