Groucho is a professor and the president ofĬollege by having a successful football team. "Horse Feathers," the Marx Brothers make fun of colleges. Movies are "Horse Feathers," "Duck Soup," and "A Night at the Opera."
Were "The Cocoanuts" and "Animal Crackers." These were based on earlier shows that they starred in on Broadway in The Marx Brothers thought people might like to see funny things happen The movies to try to forget their troubles. The Marx Brothers made most of their movies during the nineteen thirties. Officials in many areas of society, like colleges, hospitals or the government. Three Marx Brothers - Groucho, Chico and Harpo - made fourteen movies Made beautiful music like this on the harp in several movies. You might have guessed from his name, Harpo Marx was famous for playing the POLICEMAN: "Now, what I'm telling you is for your own POLICEMAN: " I can see a little light burning in the Waiting to hear your steps on the stairs?" Don't you know your poor old mother sits there, night after night, Running around with the wrong kind of people. GROUCHO: " Don't take him away, officer." POLICEMAN: "You better come with me, young fellow." Hand, you can hear pieces of silver that Harpo has stolen fall out of his One movie, a kind policeman tries to give him some advice to stay away from bad He made funny sounds with horns and whistles to express his thoughts and Had curly yellow hair, but it was not really his hair. We shadow him all day."ĬHICO:" It was Shadowday (Saturday)! That's some joke, eh, Boss!"Ĭhico did to music what he did to the English language. We listened to it over the radio".ĬHICO: "Oh, sure, we shadow Firefly. Thursday was a double-header, nobody show up. Tuesday we go to the ball game, but he fool MAN: " I want a full, detailed report of yourĬHICO: "All right. And in one hour, even less than one hour, we You remember you gave us a picture of this man and said follow him?"ĬHICO: "Well, we get on the job right away. Chico reports his progress to the man who asked him to spy on He talked about things that were so untrue or She says "I have a falsetto voice." Chico then says "Well, my last student had aĪlso was known for performing what was called the comedy of the absurd.
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Chico also made funny jokes about words and expressions that sound alikeĮxample, in one movie a woman sings with a very high falsetto voice. Immigrants who did not speak English well. They were making fun of themselves and other Many other funny men spoke as though they came from other countries.
GROUCHO: "Anything further, father? That can't be right. You know you can't leave a schoolroom without raising your hand, no
GROUCHO: "So that's what they taught you in Outside and if anything turns up, we'll get in touch with you. I'd have horsewhipped you if I had a horse. Opera singers, diplomats and government officials. He made fun of doctors, college officials, He often insulted or made fun of rich or important people. Was not a very nice person in the movies. He played people with funny names, like Rufus He did not play a funny man like the other Adolph becameĪppeared in the first five Marx Brothers movies. Leonard and Adolph Marx began making funny movies in nineteen twenty-nine. Along with their two brothers, they performed in stage shows called Started performing when they were children. Wereborn in New York City between eighteen eighty-six and eighteen ninety. They made many funny movies in the nineteen thirtiesĪnd nineteen forties that are still popular today. I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA.