The films with Zeppo also tended to be stronger, as Zeppo could serve as the romantic protagonist while his brothers provided ...

Critic James Agee once famously said that the Marx brothers’ worst “would be better worth seeing than most other things I can think of.” Their later films, mostly the MGMs, would compromise ...

Marx Brothers films were my first real pop culture obsession (if you don’t count Sesame Street or Captain Kangaroo), and I watched them so many times in my youth — and again after college ...

The Sedona Parks & Rec Summer Cinema Series continues Saturday, June 20, at 8 p.m. with “The Marx Brothers Go West.” ...

In earlier Marx Brothers films, opera would have come under constant assault as an icon of high culture, wealth and the upper classes. Here, Chico and Harpo do disrupt an overture with an ...

(One silent Marx Brothers film, 1921’s “Humor Risk,” has been lost.) Even in their very first films, we can glimpse the lines on Groucho’s face, testament to half a lifetime spent on ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Cocoanuts, released in 1929, marks the ...