What If the Marx Brothers Got Around to Making That Movie With Salvador Dalí?

Josh Frank brings the legendary unproduced movie to printed life

"...for those who've known about it, that the surrealist Marx Brothers movie that Salvador Dalí pitched to MGM was..."

March 22, 2019 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Josh Frank Writes Himself Into the History of the Marx Bros.

There ain't no sanity clause

"...honked car horn, the blaring trademark blast of the Marx Bros. Anytime there was a marathon of their chaotic..."

April 5, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...D: Leo McCarey; with Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont. Monkey..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

Duck Soup

A sublime, Surrealist comedy from the Marx Brothers, in which Groucho plays the new dictator-for-life of tiny Freedonia who declares war on a whim on neighboring Sylvania.

"...DUCK SOUPD: Leo McCarey; with the Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern, Raquel Torres. War and..."

April 19, 2002 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

Shine

"...D: Edward Buzzell (1939) with Groucho, Chico, and Harpo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Eve Arden..."

July 11, 1997 Screens Feature

Duck Soup (1933)

Four Marx Brothers

"...Hail, hail Freedonia! As Zeppo Marx's final screen appearance, 1933's Duck Soup was the last..."

May 17, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

I Served the King of England

The new film from Czech New Wave hero Jirí Menzel presents a whimsical version of 20th century European history.

"...film creation: equal parts Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harpo Marx but with a self-absorbed indifference to the suffering..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Ernie Kovacs

Breaking the fourth wall with the legendary comedian

"...sketch comedy was tonally similar to the more anarchic Marx Brothers – in particular Harpo Marx's Dada-esque silent lunacy..."

May 12, 2017 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

I've Had a Wonderful Evening ...

Marx Brothers Month at the San Antonio Street Cafe

"...serves to point out the timeless relevance of Chico Marx's foul-weather non sequitur...."

June 30, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Muppets Most Wanted

This re-energized franchise has found its second wind: The Muppets' eighth movie proves that eight is not enough.

"...Hannibal Lecter, The Seventh Seal, Rita Hayworth, Mission: Impossible, Harpo Marx, countless star cameos, and – most hysterically –..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Secondhand Lions

In this unique family film that's also an ode to heroic movies gone by, a boy is sent for the summer to live with his two eccentric uncles in Texas.

"...McCanlies is playing your heartstrings nearly as well as Harpo Marx played an upended Steinway. McCanlies’ previous project was..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Duck Soup

"...Directed by: Leo McCarey. Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx and Margaret Dumont...."

June 30, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Goofy Movie

"...to be socked in as much as I hated Harpo Marx's inevitable harp solo. This film, which actually should..."

April 7, 1995 Movie Review by Louis Black

The True Value of a Seven-Cent Nickle

"...Funny Farm; it’s quite another not to like the Marx Brothers. That’s beyond my comprehension. I can understand going..."

Oct. 14, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Feet muscles, 'gateway' bands, and more

"...Harpo Marx (born Adolph Arthur Marx) got his nickname in..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Harpo Marx loved the children's cartoon series Beany and Cecil..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Finding the Funny in Serious Music

When Igudesman & Joo play classical, they really play

"...like Victor Borge, Spike Jones, PDQ Bach, Anna Russell, Harpo Marx, Dudley Moore, and Austin's own Lyova Rosanoff and..."

Jan. 21, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

April Fools

Acia Gray mines vaudeville for lost treasures of tap and makes them dazzle again

"...was smoother than Mr. Midnight's silk robe. Wearing a Harpo Marx-esque expression mixing innocence and mischief, Thomas Wadleton channeled..."

April 6, 2012 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Life

Junkie chic achieves the ultimate high

"...Custer, Joseph Conrad, Toulouse-Lautrec, Winston Churchill, Boris Karloff, Franco, Harpo Marx, Ira Gershwin, Lucky Luciano, Walt Disney, Maria Callas,..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Harpo at the Rancho, and more

"...Harpo Marx died Sept. 28, 1964. He was cremated and..."

April 9, 2010 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Wal-Mart, Cookie Monster, and more

"...Harold Ramis, John Belushi's character, Bluto, was equal parts Harpo Marx and Cookie Monster...."

March 26, 2010 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Harpo Marx loved black jelly beans, Roman Emperor Claudius believed in the healthful quality of farting, and more

"...Harpo Marx loved black jelly beans...."

Oct. 26, 2007 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Irvine Welsh

'Trainspotting,' 10 years later, and a new book

"...Chefs, and speaking by phone from Dorothy Parker and Harpo Marx's beloved Algonquin Hotel, is unimpressed by all this..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Getting Kids Into the Act

Curtain up on GRRL Action and Vortex Summer Youth Theatre

"...a 15-year-old first-time Summer Youth participant who will play Harpo Marx and Tallulah Bankhead in Vitriol. "I wanted to..."

July 22, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Live Shots

"...blow for blow. Kiedis' frontman punch; Flea's bleached, curly Harpo Marx bass antics; the drum-riser command of Chad Smith..."

June 20, 2003 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Local Arts Reviews

"...Ben Wolfe as Banjo, a Hollywood comedian based on Harpo Marx but realized here as a human espresso: a..."

June 7, 2002 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Classical Musicians and Their Instruments

Photo Essay by Bret Brookshire

"...is the same model and vintage of harp that Harpo Marx played and is intact with the original sounding..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Arts Feature

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"..."Ed, I saw Harpo Marx ram Oprah W. aside" is a palindrome...."

April 23, 1999 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Letters at 3AM: Why a Duck?

The Marx Brothers were funny but they weren't kidding

"...sixth grade. He wrote that Chico was "the only Marx brother to graduate from public school." As for Harpo:..."

July 27, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Book Reviews

Southerners, Strange Foreigners, and Unabashed Perverts

"...Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marxby Stefan Kanfer..."

June 2, 2000 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

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