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...attack. Third-ranked U.S. woman player in 1920, she soon started coaching and made Wimbledon champions of Alice Marble, Maureen Connolly and Bobby Riggs. "Teach," as she was nicknamed by one of her finest show-biz pupils, Carole Lombard, was also courtside mentor of Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich and Groucho Marx...
Dick Cavett. British author Jan Morris (nee James Morris) talks about why she underwent a sex-change operation. (This show was pre-empted two weeks ago for a Cavett special on Groucho Marx.) Ch. 5, 12:30 a.m. 1 1/2 hours...
...Coconuts (1929). The Marx Brothers' first, and worst, movie. A couple of good routines, though, especially the famous Groucho-Chico "Why a Duck?" scene. Ch. 4, 1:30 a.m. B/W, 1 1/2 hours...
SWEETEST CHARITY: Groucho Marx's honorary Oscar. To see film's great anarchist spirit dimmed by age occasioned the night's only long, sad thoughts...
...Night at the Opera is one of the two or three funniest movies the Marx brothers ever made. Everyone loves the scene where more and more people are shoved into Groucho's "stateroom," or the Take-Me-Out-to-the-Ballgame interlude at the opera. That funny foreign language the brothers speak before a throng in New York is the soundtrack running backwards, but the New Yorkers couldn't tell. Vesti la Giubba is the aria from Pagllacci that Groucho is always humming (It was also Caruso's most popular record.). Don't forget the two hard-boiled eggs...