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Groucho Marx's career as a solo performer began long before the Marx Brothers and lasted almost until the end of his life, with a series of controversial sold-out concerts in his eighties. In between came several films, numerous television and radio appearances, theater performances, dramatic acting and writing and his smash hit radio and TV quiz show You Bet Your Life (1947-1961).
This first ever comprehensive study of his work without his famous brothers reveals a Groucho perhaps unfamiliar to the public. Driven to prove he was much more than just a comedian with a greasepaint (later real) mustache, Groucho always thought of himself as essentially a solo performer and strove for individual success in his professional life--and to balance (if not always successfully) his career with his family life. Many rare photographs are included, along with new and previously unpublished interviews.
Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword • by Frank Ferrante
Preface
Introduction: Subtracting Sheep
1. A sort of summer mental aberration
2. I wish Harpo and Chico were here
3. Howard Hughes owes me a trip around the world
4. I hate work
5. A comparatively easy racket
6. I hope God doesn't look like that
7. Lighted rooms
Afterword
Appendix I: Evenings with Groucho • by Matthew Coniam
Appendix II: Anatomy of a Mustache • by Noah Diamond
Appendix III: I Saw It with My Own Ears • by Gary Westin
Appendix IV: Memoirs of a Reigning Firefly • by Jay Hopkins
Appendix V: The Groucho Marx Theory of Creativity • by Matthew Coniam
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
