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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Loony Lieder | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 17, 1943 | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTERTAINMENT | 3/5/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 3/3/1943 | See Source »

...Molotov - "a small man with a Groucho Marx mustache." He always looked "as though he [was] watching someone else sucking a lemon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fun in War | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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