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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COCOANUTS. Is that really Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo? No, but Washington's Arena Stage has fizzily reconstructed their 1925 Broadway hit with George S. Kaufman's script, Irving Berlin's score and some apt impersonations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 30, 1988 | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...Paramount). Groucho is the one with the pointed mustache and glasses who pulls most of the wisecracks. Harpo is the one in the curled peruke whose zany glee is never accompanied by a syllable. Chico is the tough one. Zeppo is handsome and does little. They are the Marxes, the funniest brothers in the U. S. In this adaptation of their musicomedy, a better piece than their first talkie (The Cocoanuts), the plot about a stolen painting is brought scornfully to light once in a while, and then merely to prove that they had a plot to ignore. Romantic songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema 1930: ANIMAL CRACKERS : The Marx Brothers | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...First Wife: "My first wife was brilliant, but she had no sense of humor. Of the Marx Brothers, she was convinced the amusing one was Zeppo...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: More Kugelmass | 10/3/1980 | See Source »

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