"Hurray For Captain Spalding" was Groucho's theme song for his game show "You Bet Your Life". I could watch you watch the Marx Brothers all day. Love your laugh.
I loved the question to Chico, 'how did you get to be Italian?' The Marx family lived in a New York neighborhood that was a mixture of Jewish and Italian immigrants. Chico really took to the Italian accent as a kid and never let it go.
Odd how Groucho is usually the only one to break the 4th wall. Harpo and Chico hardly ever play directly to the audience, as though Groucho's the only one who knows or cares that they exist.
One bit left over from the original stage play is where Groucho tells Margaret Dumont “Excuse me, I’m about to have a Strange Interlude”, and then steps forward to do strange, WEEIIRD monologues-That’s an in-joke poke at Eugene O’Neill’s then-hit play, where characters fourth-walled their thoughts to the audience. Hence Groucho’s line of “If this were a Eugene O’Neill play, I could tell you what I think of you! You’re just lucky the Theater Guild isn’t putting this on!…And so is the Guild!”
So "meta". Probably a holdover from their pre film stage acting days. I love imagining what it was like when people waited in line to see it for the first time. I watched it in the 1980s as a kid and was blown away. It still slays.
What part do you consider the more wholesome, the one where he plays piano in a brothel or the one where he goes to jail for being the accomplice of Seymour Mintz?
@@BaccarWozat i think mostly the love with which he speaks of his brothers, parents and children, turning an objectively hard childhood into a romanticized adventure.
@@BaccarWozat I like the time Peggy Hopkins Joyce wanted him to read her a bedtime story. He thought this was just a euphemism and he was very excited. It turns out that reading a book to her was all she wanted him to do. Oh, and there was that time Harpo and Ruth Gordon went skinny dipping in Europe and greeted one of Alexander Woolcott's important guests completely nude and dripping wet. Alex was once again upset.
It's so nice to see someone so young who actually appreciates the Marx brothers. I love your reactions to them. Comedy nowadays has very little substance. These are some of the greats. I hope you keep discovering the masters of the past. Great reaction.
There is nothing better than watching Dawn Marie watch the Marx Brothers. I’ve loved them since I was a young child watching Groucho on You Bet Your Life (on first run). One of my most prized possessions is the autographs of all four of them. I’ve never seen a Gummo, but he was never on film either. Thanks for being the sun in the sky today, Dawn. This made it a great day!
You must be MY age!! Nobody my age is not dead, lol! (I thought Gummo played a small part in one of their films. Who was the handsome, straight brother sometimes with them?)
@@chetcarman3530 Zeppo! Gummo was the non-performing (after vaudville) Brother. He didn't appear in films and was replaced by his youngest brother, Zeppo. Zeppo was considered to be the funniest of them all, by all accounts, but he was the younger brother. Allegedly, Groucho was sick for a live performance and Zeppo filled in, (they looked so much alike in costume nobody could tell.). The revies were so great, Groucho came back the next day and never missed again. Zeppo ended up being their manager when he retired from performing. Yeah, I'm and old guy!
"Habeus Irish rose" is a pun on "Abie's Irish Rose" which at that time held the record for being the longest running play in Broadway history, running from 1922-1927. In 1925 Rodgers and Hart even included it in a lyric of their first hit song, "Manhattan." Our future babies, we'll take to Abie's Irish Rose. I hope they live to see it close.
This is my favorite Marx Brothers film, just edging out “Duck Soup” and “A Night at the Opera.” The wordplay, the music, the surrealism… it’s just the best.
My grandmother saw them in one of their stage shows. She said it was so funny, and they kept cracking jokes long after the show was supposed to be over. Finally, the management just turned off the lights! Otherwise, they would have violated the "show curfew" (a city ordinance prohibiting entertainment after a specific time).
I laughed when Dawn Marie said "you open another door and it's snowing" because it reminded me of what Heinlein wrote in the introduction to his novel "The door into summer": During a Colorado winter the cat would wander around the house from one door to another, peering out glumly. Heinlein was puzzled until his wife Virginia explained that the cat didn't fancy the snow fields it saw through the various doors, and was looking for a 'door into summer'.
That's what my cat does. If it's raining at the back door he goes to the front. It's raining there too so goes to the side door. Then he tries the back door again. Then he goes to the kitchen, pouts, looks at me, as if I can stop the rain or find him a side of the house where it's not raining.
@@stupidsmart-phone6911 I figured out early on that the several generations of ferals that grew up on my patio (never came inside at all) believed that humans, and I in particular, controlled the weather. Every time it rained they'd look at me like "why did you make it do that?", because clearly no *cat* would want water to fall from the sky. I could never get across to them that I didn't like it either, so I had to brace myself every time it rained during the day to endure the stink-eye from them when I got home.
He also borrowed the moustache for Fawlty Towers. He never had to give it back, either, because Groucho died in 1977 and it was impossible to medically reattach the moustache when he was already six feet under the weather.
Back in the day when you could stay in the theater and watch the movie over and over again. My sister and I stayed so long our mother had to come get us. 😂😂😂.
Arch Hall filmed some outdoor scenes for the movie "Eegah" (starring Richard Kiel and Arch Hall Jr.) on Harpo Marx's Palm Springs estate, without Harpo's knowledge or permission. One day while they were filming, Harpo came driving down the road. He stopped and asked what they were doing on his property. The elder Hall answered "We're making a movie." Harpo just said "Oh, okay" and drove off. My favorite song from a Marx Brothers movie is "Hello, I Must Be Going". Sometimes I start singing it when I'm leaving work or a gathering.
When Chico says "I see Habeas Irish Rose" he's referring to the play "Abie's Irish Rose". Also when Groucho says "Pardon me while I have a strange interlude" he's referring to the Eugene O'Neill play "Strange Interlude"
It's amazing how well their lines not only played off of each other, but the funny lines they gave the supporting cast were often hilarious too, and helped build to a funnier finale by the Brothers.
That one spot in the movie where Groucho is talking with the man with the moustache, where you asked, "wait did he mess up that line? Yes he did, and Groucho adlibbed the next few lines to cover for him. They tried to shoot the scene again, but this take got the better reaction, so they put it in the film.
If you love the Marx Brothers you absolutely have to watch the episode of a famous American sitcom called "I Love Lucy" in which Lucille Ball (a great comedic actress in her own right) meets Harpo. And I do believe he plays his harp in it as well. I think you'll find it hilarious.
That's the one where she dresses up as Superman and has to hide chocolates in her mouth. And they recreate the mirror scene, which is where Harpo looks at the mirror and doesn't say "Mirror, mirror on the shelf, How come I don't talk myself?"
My favorite quote from Groucho Marx: "A man's only as old as the woman he feels." These guys were so witty. I'm impressed that you enjoy them so much, considering how old these films are!
'd forgotten how funny ANIMAL CRACKERS was. thanks for reminding me. And for your next excursion, how about AT THE CIRCUS? It features Groucho singing LYDIA THE TATTOOED LADY (a musical number as iconic and memorable as HOORAY FOR CAPTAIN SPAULDING, if not more).
There are so many funny lines to quote from in this movie. "I can't imagine what's keeping that teapot." "You can't expect all the jokes to be good." "This magnificent chest...no, this mag- no, this magnificent chest..." Everything is so memorable. And your reactions make it even better. Thank you for being open minded enough to review such old classics when so many younger people believe that black and white media can't possibly be worth watching.
Groucho also parodies the play strange interlude which was popular at the time. In the play the characters step forward to dramatically express their inner feelings to the audience. It’s all pretty silly and Groucho gives it a good poke.
It’s great that you watch a bunch of old movies I haven’t seen, because some of time I have to go back, and watch them before I watch yours. Thank you for opening my eyes to a whole bunch of good movies 👍
Fun fact: Chico and Harpo, prior to the Marx Brothers, were employed at certain points as parlor piano players at a few brothels while in their twenties. Believe it or not, there is a video somewhere on YT that has a 20-second audio clip of Harpo speaking; it was during an interview he did in the 40s talking about the time he got sick while working that brothel pianist gig.
Zeppo is the best one! The writers just didn't know how to write for him. Before he joined his brothers on stage he was a Chicago juvenile delinquent who carried a gun and stole cars. And that was just to impress girls. (He'd already impressed the guys, mostly with bullets.) I don't know what he did with the cars once he stole them, maybe parked them somewhere without paying the meter. Once he joined the act it was all uphill from there. Maybe that's why he needed those cars. After the movies, he usually went home. He became an agent for many of the top Hollywood actors, but not the best ones as they already had acting jobs. He got his clients work by threatening to beat up producers, which was fortunate as he couldn't beat them down instead. After that, he became an inventor and developed a wristwatch that could measure your heart rate, which they later used on the Tin Man. Finally, in 1979 he invented his own death.
One of the singing lovers was Lilian Roth. Roth had a very interesting career and life. She wrote a superb memoir called “I’ll cry tomorrow” which was made into the best biopicture of all. It’s searing and bluntly honest. Lilian Roth is worth taking a look at
She was delightful. By far the best of the female romantic leads from Marx Brothers films. She's funny in her own right, sings very well, has that thick New York accent which plays against type. I wonder if she was already a full-blown alcoholic at this point?
It's a common assumption that Zeppo is playing Groucho there, but nowadays Marx Brothers experts agree that the substitute actor is not Zeppo. The identity of Groucho's double hasn't been established with 100% certainty, but it is almost certain that it's not Zeppo.
That’s a very keen and interesting observation. I shall definitely tell our family that our vey own Herb didn’t stand in for Julius.. I always did wonder about the on set photo we had of the scene
@@weikko79 Thanks for that. I have always been very sure it wasn't Groucho and just assumed it was Zeppo as he had played Groucho a number of times on stage (Broadway ) when he was sick
Watch "Monkey Business" (1931) next. They play 4 stowaways on a cruise liner. Co-starring Thelma Todd (the blond actress from Horsefeathers) as a gangster's girlfriend who flirts with Groucho. Very funny stuff! (PS. So glad you're such a Marx Brothers fan! They were my dad's favorite -- mine, too.)
3:07 - Not "thick". He actually says "young and picked". At that time "picked" meant "selected as being the best available". (Notice that it has to rhyme with "strict" in that part of the song.)
This one was the first Marx brothers film I ever saw, and my jaw dropped when I saw/heard Harpos instrumental segment. Until that point, I'd only ever seen the harp being played at operas, and that was only ever just simple sweeping strums of the thing, so Harpos intricate playing really was an eye-opener. The spray thing near the end is known as a "flit gun"; it's basically an early fly spray.
It does my old heart good to know that Dawn loves and appreciates the genius of the Marx Brothers! She'll carry the torch for them for decades to come!
You ought to read any of the many biographies written about the Marx Brothers. They had an amazing show business life. There's never been anybody like them, nor is there likely to ever be again.
Brilliant stuff. I think MONKEY BUSINESS (1931) is the main one you haven't done yet, which was always right up there for me. Was between that one and Duck Soup that I always enjoyed the most
Dawn, you have the best reactions of anyone on You Tube. Watching your reactions, particularly the comedy film reactions, makes the movies even better. Already looking forward to your next reaction.
"Habeus Irish Rose". A story (and stage show) (and movie) called "Abie's Irish Rose" was hugely popular at the time. George S. Kaufman who wrote the book for the stage version (along with Morie Ryskind) got so exasperated with the Brothers rewriting of the lines, he once sent a telegram backstage at intermission that read "Am out front. Wish you were here."
My fave! My first Marx Brothers film, I taped it off cable TV when I was a kid and wore out the tape. So cool to see that the jokes still work 93 years later, for a young audience (and Scottish at that). Crazy to think that "talking pictures" turn a century old this decade. UA-cam has Groucho and Margaret doing "Hooray" on live TV just a week or so before she died. It's a valedictory appearance for Ms DuMont and highly fun to watch them do their Comedian/Dowager schtick just one more time. She was so very, very funny. There are rumours that she was never in on the jokes, purported by Groucho himself, but that can't possibly be true. She was a veteran of the music hall period and never missed a beat. I love her so much.
Love this react! This is their first masterpiece, in my opinion. Next, I would recommend Monkey Business (1931,) which I think is the only Zeppo film you've not seen on the channel yet, and A Night in Casablanca (1946), which is their last great film.
@@RoSaWa386-33 Not so sure about that one, since it wasn't originally written for them, although it contains an even more elaborate "switching rooms" sequence than the one in The Cocoanuts. I'll continue to recommend seeing all their films, even Love Happy which I'll admit is not first-rate material. Go West and A Night in Casablanca feature probably the best "Chico trying to understand Harpo's important information" bits, and The Big Store expands further on Roscoe Chandler's "how did you get to be Italian?" line by having Chico try to sell beds to a large Italian family who are nonplused by his phony accent.
27:35 comment identity question...usually it is a pump action dispenser for insect repellant (D. D. T.), but he repurposed it it seems for dispensing a perfume.-Ernie Moore Jr .
So glad you finally watched my favorite one ❤ So many great bits in this one. To this day, if bigamy is ever mentioned in conversation I'm compelled to say "It's bigamy, too. It's big of all of us, let's be big for a change". And even just thinking of the line about "the four most beautiful eyes I've ever seen. Well, three anyways" I'll be cracking up for half an hour afterwards. It's great to see how much you love them ❤️ 💕
In the ships barber shop where they give the customer a little snoop is a classic. As the movie opens you hear them singing sweet Adeline in four part sort of harmony. That fourth voice is harpo It’s the only time he speaks in a movie.
I believe there is a little bit in the Spaulding intro that is missing through it. Just a small piece of film that got lost and no one found when they released the films again (or so I have heard I could be wrong).
Are you sure it's their best one? Maybe not counting films like "A Night Or Day At The Opera Races" or "Mallard Broth" it is. But they forgot to spell "Aminal" correctly. And what's the point of calling a bunch of white people crackers?
Your laugh is infectious.. I’m sure all of The Marx brothers are looking down from above, marveling to the fact that their humor is still appreciated to this day by young lady from Scotland! New subscriber and looking forward to watching all of these and The Young Ones videos!
Dawn Marie: Before Harpo's wig was changed to platinum blonde, for cinematic visual reasons, and which started with their third film, the original red wig he wore from when the brother's act first started in vaudeville, then onstage Broadway, etc. , and for their first two movies, was because that Harpo's character was known as a "Patsy" and "...was based on a 'Patsy Brannigan', an Irish-cum-rural type that was a regular character in vaudeville shows. The type was based on a real-life Irish comic of that name active in the 1890s. Harpo describes his Patsy Brannigan costume in 'Harpo Speaks'. In this case, Jenny the ex-girl singer mentioned must refer to the original Nightingale Mabel O'Donnell: "Minnie (Marx, the brother's mother) got out the wig she'd made up for Jenny, our ex-girl singer, cut off the piece that used to cover Jenny's cockeye, and dyed the wig red for me. She sewed bright patches onto my travelling pants, which were pretty well shot anyway, and I used a piece of rope for a suspender. The rest of the costume was my beloved turtle-neck sweater and a decrepit beaver hat that Minnie scrounged out of the boarding-house attic. For a final touch before going onstage, I reddened my ears, painted on some freckles and blacked out three of my front teeth." Here's Harpo back to wearing the original red wig in "THE STORY OF MANKIND" (1957). ua-cam.com/video/H7de1sTeD6w/v-deo.html
Glad to hear that. Duck Soup and Night at the Opera tend to get most of the attention and praise. Not that I dislike them but AC has always been my favorite.
All those knives really where in Harpo's sleeve, he was able to stick a crazy amount of them in there. He got in trouble when he travelled to Russia to perform because they found so many knives in his luggage. His book is a must read, it's my favourite. They did crazier things in real life than in their movies.
Great reaction Dawn Marie! I love that you love these characters. Also, 18:18, "The fellow in the woodpile" is an interesting turn of words if you google it. Nice of the boys to tone it down in 1930. British politicians have lost their jobs over this phrase as recently as 2019.
Late to the party... glad you like this. Interesting to see younger gens STILL liking the old Classics! I stumbled on a Millenial girl who also likes to watch older movies, and she roared while watching "A Night at the Opera" o0 Thanks for sharing, Dawn! Luv your laff too xo
Wonderful to watch you laugh at my second favorite Marx Brothers movie. This will always put a smile on my face, and it has some of the best word play that they ever did. After you watch Monkey Business, the next should either be Room Service or A Night in Casablanca. While not on the level of their 6 best, both have wonderful moments in them.
There's one scene where Captain Spaulding is played by Zeppo, in the dark when Chico and Harpo steals the painting. Zeppo could imitate and replace all of his three older brothers when illness kept them from performing on stage. He did play Captain Spaulding on Broadway when Groucho got sick and according to Groucho, Zeppo did it better than himself.
And don't forget about "The Incredible Jewel Robbery" which also stars Ronald Reagan and his horse and pony show. (It was a poor show for him, he didn't bring his horse and pony.)
Great movie(s). It reminds me of when Groucho was ill, and Zeppo took his place in Vaudville, getting rave reviews. He never got to be funny; so he got out of their movies, becoming a successful businessman with Gummo, who had left the group at his mom's behest so that they wouldn't draft the others into the army. The 3 were obviously most famous, but those 2 were also amazing.
Even though I'm old I was never all that big of a Marx Bro's fan. Liked 'em, didn't love 'em. But I'm a HUGE fan of Dawn watching them. Best laugh ever.
I kept thinking, "Margaret is really laughing at some of these moments." And the only thing I can say about seeing these films in sequence is the running gags - Harpo spotting a girl, then stepping forward dangerously - she runs then he chases. Their running gags build up, one film to the other.
ROOM SERVICE and MONKEY BUSINESS complete their early, funny films... then GO WEST and BIG STORE. See 'em all... some won't be AS hysterical but our ribs might enjoy that!
Monkey Business should be next, which is great. Zeppo has a bigger part, and there is even a cameo appearance by their father, Frenchy. After that, you still have Horsefeathers to go in order to have seen all their best movies. You will love both. I personally guarantee it.
I think one joke Dawn might not have understood was during the elephant hunt routine. Groucho mentioned he liked hunting in Alabama because everyone knows "...the tusks are looser!" That's a pun for the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It was originally spelled Tuskaloosa because it was the name of a Native American chief from that part of the country. The city also served at Alabama's state capital for nearly 120 years. The Uniersity of Alabama is also found at Tuscaloosa.
Hi Dawn, always great to see you enjoying these classic comedy films. Funnily enough, I was wondering only a couple of days ago when you were going to watch your next one. Thanks, for reacting to these classic films & perhaps encouraging other young people to do the same.
The first five movies were the craziest. They toned it down slightly for A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races, but those were big A productions. After that they never had it so good again and the films started getting a little tired, but they were always enjoyable for their fans. I still think Room Service is a great little film, but it was already an existing play before they inserted the Marx Brothers into it.
Unfortunately, the studio tried to "tame" them to make them more palatable to a bigger audience. And then denied them the first class script writers they had for their earlier films. They could have continued to make great movies if they had had the material to work with.
Through your enjoyment, i am remembering first seeing marx bro movies on television decades ago. When one would be on that i hadn't seen, i was looking forward to it so much. Bravo.....
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"Hurray For Captain Spalding" was Groucho's theme song for his game show "You Bet Your Life". I could watch you watch the Marx Brothers all day. Love your laugh.
Her laugh is the best!
I loved the question to Chico, 'how did you get to be Italian?' The Marx family lived in a New York neighborhood that was a mixture of Jewish and Italian immigrants. Chico really took to the Italian accent as a kid and never let it go.
I have loved these guys since I was a child. Groucho always breaks the 4th wall. Listening to Dawn's laughter is priceless.
One wall for each brother to break. Unfortunately, if you want to do stand up, you have to leave at least one wall.
Odd how Groucho is usually the only one to break the 4th wall. Harpo and Chico hardly ever play directly to the audience, as though Groucho's the only one who knows or cares that they exist.
One bit left over from the original stage play is where Groucho tells Margaret Dumont “Excuse me, I’m about to have a Strange Interlude”, and then steps forward to do strange, WEEIIRD monologues-That’s an in-joke poke at Eugene O’Neill’s then-hit play, where characters fourth-walled their thoughts to the audience. Hence Groucho’s line of “If this were a Eugene O’Neill play, I could tell you what I think of you! You’re just lucky the Theater Guild isn’t putting this on!…And so is the Guild!”
Yes, O'Neill even wrote a play called "Strange Interlude."
O’Neill’s Strange Interlude was famously banned in Boston….
I believe “I can’t get over how fast his fingers are” is a that’s what she said.
The odd pauses after Groucho delivers a line is to give the audience time to laugh so they dont miss the next joke.
So "meta". Probably a holdover from their pre film stage acting days. I love imagining what it was like when people waited in line to see it for the first time. I watched it in the 1980s as a kid and was blown away. It still slays.
Many of their earlier movies were based on live performances.
That’s how they did it in Vaudeville. The Marxes were discovered by doing Vaudeville.
Harpo's autobiography "Harpo Speaks!" is the funniest and simultaneously most wholesome book I have ever read and I bet you would love it too!
What part do you consider the more wholesome, the one where he plays piano in a brothel or the one where he goes to jail for being the accomplice of Seymour Mintz?
@@BaccarWozat i think mostly the love with which he speaks of his brothers, parents and children, turning an objectively hard childhood into a romanticized adventure.
very entertaining indeed, great storyteller. Groucho and Me by Groucho is also fantastic. But the best one IMHO is "Monkey Business" by Simon Louvish.
@@BaccarWozat I like the time Peggy Hopkins Joyce wanted him to read her a bedtime story. He thought this was just a euphemism and he was very excited. It turns out that reading a book to her was all she wanted him to do.
Oh, and there was that time Harpo and Ruth Gordon went skinny dipping in Europe and greeted one of Alexander Woolcott's important guests completely nude and dripping wet. Alex was once again upset.
Its a terrific read. Harpo acting as a secret agent in the newly formed Soviet Union is worth the price of the book alone.
Dawn was laughing at jokes written 94 years ago.
There's no finner tribute.
Were they past their laugh-by date?
Proof that old movies have no sell-buy date.
I’m 59 and I still laugh hard at this movie ever since I was a teenager.
How many of TODAY'S comedians will be funny in 94 years?
It's so nice to see someone so young who actually appreciates the Marx brothers. I love your reactions to them. Comedy nowadays has very little substance. These are some of the greats. I hope you keep discovering the masters of the past. Great reaction.
There is nothing better than watching Dawn Marie watch the Marx Brothers. I’ve loved them since I was a young child watching Groucho on You Bet Your Life (on first run). One of my most prized possessions is the autographs of all four of them. I’ve never seen a Gummo, but he was never on film either. Thanks for being the sun in the sky today, Dawn. This made it a great day!
You must be MY age!! Nobody my age is not dead, lol! (I thought Gummo played a small part in one of their films. Who was the handsome, straight brother sometimes with them?)
Once you've seen one Gummo you've seen them all.
@@chetcarman3530 Zeppo! Gummo was the non-performing (after vaudville) Brother. He didn't appear in films and was replaced by his youngest brother, Zeppo. Zeppo was considered to be the funniest of them all, by all accounts, but he was the younger brother. Allegedly, Groucho was sick for a live performance and Zeppo filled in, (they looked so much alike in costume nobody could tell.). The revies were so great, Groucho came back the next day and never missed again. Zeppo ended up being their manager when he retired from performing. Yeah, I'm and old guy!
@@chadbennett7873 Zeppo, right!! Ty*
"Habeus Irish rose" is a pun on "Abie's Irish Rose" which at that time held the record for being the longest running play in Broadway history, running from 1922-1927. In 1925 Rodgers and Hart even included it in a lyric of their first hit song, "Manhattan."
Our future babies, we'll take to Abie's Irish Rose.
I hope they live to see it close.
Ah! Thanks!~
Now that's some deep cultural NYC knowledge!
Also there was the 1929 movie.
This is my favorite Marx Brothers film, just edging out “Duck Soup” and “A Night at the Opera.” The wordplay, the music, the surrealism… it’s just the best.
i think monkey business is their best movie
Nah - Duck Soup is the best
@@JoelAAK I grant you Duck Soup has the best jokes and plot, but Animal Crackers has Chico playing the piano.
17:10 - I love how Harpo's suspenders are not attached to his pants!!! 😂😂😂😂
We've got your humour type: absurdistic but intelligent
My grandmother saw them in one of their stage shows. She said it was so funny, and they kept cracking jokes long after the show was supposed to be over. Finally, the management just turned off the lights! Otherwise, they would have violated the "show curfew" (a city ordinance prohibiting entertainment after a specific time).
I laughed when Dawn Marie said "you open another door and it's snowing" because it reminded me of what Heinlein wrote in the introduction to his novel "The door into summer": During a Colorado winter the cat would wander around the house from one door to another, peering out glumly. Heinlein was puzzled until his wife Virginia explained that the cat didn't fancy the snow fields it saw through the various doors, and was looking for a 'door into summer'.
I can attest to this.
That's what my cat does. If it's raining at the back door he goes to the front. It's raining there too so goes to the side door. Then he tries the back door again. Then he goes to the kitchen, pouts, looks at me, as if I can stop the rain or find him a side of the house where it's not raining.
@@stupidsmart-phone6911 I figured out early on that the several generations of ferals that grew up on my patio (never came inside at all) believed that humans, and I in particular, controlled the weather. Every time it rained they'd look at me like "why did you make it do that?", because clearly no *cat* would want water to fall from the sky. I could never get across to them that I didn't like it either, so I had to brace myself every time it rained during the day to endure the stink-eye from them when I got home.
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I never realized that Cleese got his silly walks from Groucho.
He also borrowed the moustache for Fawlty Towers. He never had to give it back, either, because Groucho died in 1977 and it was impossible to medically reattach the moustache when he was already six feet under the weather.
Hey Dawn, Tuscaloosa is a city in our state of Alabama, USA. Get it ? Tuscaloosa? A loose tusk. This is a great watch.
Thanks!
I loved Harpo when I was very, very young. He was so kind and his harp music was heavenly.
Back in the day when you could stay in the theater and watch the movie over and over again. My sister and I stayed so long our mother had to come get us. 😂😂😂.
Arch Hall filmed some outdoor scenes for the movie "Eegah" (starring Richard Kiel and Arch Hall Jr.) on Harpo Marx's Palm Springs estate, without Harpo's knowledge or permission. One day while they were filming, Harpo came driving down the road. He stopped and asked what they were doing on his property. The elder Hall answered "We're making a movie." Harpo just said "Oh, okay" and drove off.
My favorite song from a Marx Brothers movie is "Hello, I Must Be Going". Sometimes I start singing it when I'm leaving work or a gathering.
When Chico says "I see Habeas Irish Rose" he's referring to the play "Abie's Irish Rose".
Also when Groucho says "Pardon me while I have a strange interlude" he's referring to the Eugene O'Neill play "Strange Interlude"
It's amazing how well their lines not only played off of each other, but the funny lines they gave the supporting cast were often hilarious too, and helped build to a funnier finale by the Brothers.
It’s such a joy to hear you laugh. Brightens my day.
That one spot in the movie where Groucho is talking with the man with the moustache, where you asked, "wait did he mess up that line? Yes he did, and Groucho adlibbed the next few lines to cover for him. They tried to shoot the scene again, but this take got the better reaction, so they put it in the film.
The "flub" is in the playscript, but it may have originated with a mistake that was made when they were still performing this on stage.
Jack Benny would play off the flubs of the cast members on his radio show, sometimes referencing them weeks later.
Nope, the "flubbed" line was in the shooting script.
If you love the Marx Brothers you absolutely have to watch the episode of a famous American sitcom called "I Love Lucy" in which Lucille Ball (a great comedic actress in her own right) meets Harpo. And I do believe he plays his harp in it as well. I think you'll find it hilarious.
That's the one where she dresses up as Superman and has to hide chocolates in her mouth. And they recreate the mirror scene, which is where Harpo looks at the mirror and doesn't say "Mirror, mirror on the shelf, How come I don't talk myself?"
Hellzapoppin - that’s a film for you
In monkey business 1931 their dad (dubbed “Frenchie”) made an cameo when Chico and Harpo confused him over their boss.
My favorite quote from Groucho Marx: "A man's only as old as the woman he feels." These guys were so witty. I'm impressed that you enjoy them so much, considering how old these films are!
'd forgotten how funny ANIMAL CRACKERS was. thanks for reminding me. And for your next excursion, how about AT THE CIRCUS? It features Groucho singing LYDIA THE TATTOOED LADY (a musical number as iconic and memorable as HOORAY FOR CAPTAIN SPAULDING, if not more).
There are so many funny lines to quote from in this movie. "I can't imagine what's keeping that teapot." "You can't expect all the jokes to be good." "This magnificent chest...no, this mag- no, this magnificent chest..." Everything is so memorable. And your reactions make it even better. Thank you for being open minded enough to review such old classics when so many younger people believe that black and white media can't possibly be worth watching.
Groucho also parodies the play strange interlude which was popular at the time. In the play the characters step forward to dramatically express their inner feelings to the audience. It’s all pretty silly and Groucho gives it a good poke.
It’s great that you watch a bunch of old movies I haven’t seen, because some of time I have to go back, and watch them before I watch yours. Thank you for opening my eyes to a whole bunch of good movies 👍
Fun fact: Chico and Harpo, prior to the Marx Brothers, were employed at certain points as parlor piano players at a few brothels while in their twenties.
Believe it or not, there is a video somewhere on YT that has a 20-second audio clip of Harpo speaking; it was during an interview he did in the 40s talking about the time he got sick while working that brothel pianist gig.
Yaaa Dawn. Watching the funniest family ever made my day too!!!
The song "Hooray For Captain Spaulding" became Groucho's theme song. It was used as his introduction as host of the game show You Bet Your Life.
I've never heard anyone else get so excited about Zeppo.
You should have seen her get excited about Margaret Dumont
True but he did his part and is in one of my fav scenes of the movie!
Dawn doesn't judge, all Marxes are equal in her eyes (love her for this!)
Zeppo is the best one! The writers just didn't know how to write for him. Before he joined his brothers on stage he was a Chicago juvenile delinquent who carried a gun and stole cars. And that was just to impress girls. (He'd already impressed the guys, mostly with bullets.) I don't know what he did with the cars once he stole them, maybe parked them somewhere without paying the meter. Once he joined the act it was all uphill from there. Maybe that's why he needed those cars.
After the movies, he usually went home. He became an agent for many of the top Hollywood actors, but not the best ones as they already had acting jobs. He got his clients work by threatening to beat up producers, which was fortunate as he couldn't beat them down instead. After that, he became an inventor and developed a wristwatch that could measure your heart rate, which they later used on the Tin Man. Finally, in 1979 he invented his own death.
Dawn... you're just a Gem to review these old comedy classics! Thank you so much for keeping them alive !!
Even when my day isn’t going well I tune in Dawn starts laughing and I start to smile. Then the day seems so much better. Lots of ❤
One of the singing lovers was Lilian Roth. Roth had a very interesting career and life. She wrote a superb memoir called “I’ll cry tomorrow” which was made into the best biopicture of all. It’s searing and bluntly honest. Lilian Roth is worth taking a look at
She was delightful. By far the best of the female romantic leads from Marx Brothers films. She's funny in her own right, sings very well, has that thick New York accent which plays against type. I wonder if she was already a full-blown alcoholic at this point?
Duck Soup is one of my favorites. It has a "mirror scene" that's amazing, LOL.
She’s already reacted to that
@@KrazyKat007 Thanks. I'll look it up.
at 14:00 when the lights go out that is actually Zeppo playing Groucho - but still Grocho's voice.
It's a common assumption that Zeppo is playing Groucho there, but nowadays Marx Brothers experts agree that the substitute actor is not Zeppo. The identity of Groucho's double hasn't been established with 100% certainty, but it is almost certain that it's not Zeppo.
That’s a very keen and interesting observation.
I shall definitely tell our family that our vey own Herb didn’t stand in for Julius.. I always did wonder about the on set photo we had of the scene
@@weikko79 Thanks for that. I have always been very sure it wasn't Groucho and just assumed it was Zeppo as he had played Groucho a number of times on stage (Broadway ) when he was sick
Thank you for watching one of my favorite comedies. I’m glad you loved it. It makes me so happy.
Dang, I wish I could bottle your laugh and giddyness. It's a gift.
"The jokes can't always be good, you gotta expect that once in awhile." 😅😅
Watch "Monkey Business" (1931) next. They play 4 stowaways on a cruise liner.
Co-starring Thelma Todd (the blond actress from Horsefeathers) as a gangster's girlfriend who flirts with Groucho.
Very funny stuff!
(PS. So glad you're such a Marx Brothers fan! They were my dad's favorite -- mine, too.)
3:07 - Not "thick". He actually says "young and picked". At that time "picked" meant "selected as being the best available". (Notice that it has to rhyme with "strict" in that part of the song.)
LOVE hearing you laugh!
This one was the first Marx brothers film I ever saw, and my jaw dropped when I saw/heard Harpos instrumental segment. Until that point, I'd only ever seen the harp being played at operas, and that was only ever just simple sweeping strums of the thing, so Harpos intricate playing really was an eye-opener. The spray thing near the end is known as a "flit gun"; it's basically an early fly spray.
Right, but he fills it with the chloroform Hives used to knock him out.
This is the brothers' second movie with Paramount. Like The Cocanuts, it was originally a Broadway show, so the staging is still like watching a play.
It does my old heart good to know that Dawn loves and appreciates the genius of the Marx Brothers! She'll carry the torch for them for decades to come!
You ought to read any of the many biographies written about the Marx Brothers. They had an amazing show business life. There's never been anybody like them, nor is there likely to ever be again.
If there were, they would probably have to change their name.
Brilliant stuff. I think MONKEY BUSINESS (1931) is the main one you haven't done yet, which was always right up there for me.
Was between that one and Duck Soup that I always enjoyed the most
I am happy to see someone who has a great appreciation of the old school movies keep it up.
That lawyer scene with Groucho and Zeppo kills me. Fantastic film and Dawn is pefect for these.
Dawn, you have the best reactions of anyone on You Tube. Watching your reactions, particularly the comedy film reactions, makes the movies even better. Already looking forward to your next reaction.
My brother and I quote Grouchos stuff everyday, my fave line of his is "hey if u get near a song, play it"🤣🤣🤣
It's good to see you laugh so hard at these older movies. They are timeless.
"Habeus Irish Rose". A story (and stage show) (and movie) called "Abie's Irish Rose" was hugely popular at the time. George S. Kaufman who wrote the book for the stage version (along with Morie Ryskind) got so exasperated with the Brothers rewriting of the lines, he once sent a telegram backstage at intermission that read "Am out front. Wish you were here."
My fave! My first Marx Brothers film, I taped it off cable TV when I was a kid and wore out the tape.
So cool to see that the jokes still work 93 years later, for a young audience (and Scottish at that). Crazy to think that "talking pictures" turn a century old this decade.
UA-cam has Groucho and Margaret doing "Hooray" on live TV just a week or so before she died. It's a valedictory appearance for Ms DuMont and highly fun to watch them do their Comedian/Dowager schtick just one more time. She was so very, very funny. There are rumours that she was never in on the jokes, purported by Groucho himself, but that can't possibly be true. She was a veteran of the music hall period and never missed a beat. I love her so much.
Love this react! This is their first masterpiece, in my opinion. Next, I would recommend Monkey Business (1931,) which I think is the only Zeppo film you've not seen on the channel yet, and A Night in Casablanca (1946), which is their last great film.
And ROOM SERVICE, with Lucille Ball.
@@RoSaWa386-33 Not so sure about that one, since it wasn't originally written for them, although it contains an even more elaborate "switching rooms" sequence than the one in The Cocoanuts.
I'll continue to recommend seeing all their films, even Love Happy which I'll admit is not first-rate material. Go West and A Night in Casablanca feature probably the best "Chico trying to understand Harpo's important information" bits, and The Big Store expands further on Roscoe Chandler's "how did you get to be Italian?" line by having Chico try to sell beds to a large Italian family who are nonplused by his phony accent.
27:35 comment identity question...usually it is a pump action dispenser for insect repellant (D. D. T.), but he repurposed it it seems for dispensing a perfume.-Ernie Moore Jr .
Not perfume; it's the chloroform that Hives had used to knock him out earlier. That's why he is able to put everyone to sleep at the end of the movie.
So glad you finally watched my favorite one ❤ So many great bits in this one. To this day, if bigamy is ever mentioned in conversation I'm compelled to say "It's bigamy, too. It's big of all of us, let's be big for a change". And even just thinking of the line about "the four most beautiful eyes I've ever seen. Well, three anyways" I'll be cracking up for half an hour afterwards. It's great to see how much you love them ❤️ 💕
Monkey Business is another older one, but has several really funny bits, especially one sequence with Harpo! 🙈🙉🙊🐵
In the ships barber shop where they give the customer a little snoop is a classic. As the movie opens you hear them singing sweet Adeline in four part sort of harmony. That fourth voice is harpo It’s the only time he speaks in a movie.
@@RossM3838 I've only ever heard three voices singing.
This was my introduction to the Marx Brothers and is still my favorite. I also laughed until it hurt the first time I watched it.
I believe there is a little bit in the Spaulding intro that is missing through it. Just a small piece of film that got lost and no one found when they released the films again (or so I have heard I could be wrong).
It has been added to the restored version (the one Dawn is watching here).
My jaw was hurting and my head was aching watching you laugh so hard. Dawn is the best ever.
This is considered there best one .
Usually people watch the best ones first, then watch the rest.
So I'm very excited to see your reaction.
Are you sure it's their best one? Maybe not counting films like "A Night Or Day At The Opera Races" or "Mallard Broth" it is. But they forgot to spell "Aminal" correctly. And what's the point of calling a bunch of white people crackers?
The Big Store has a few great set pieces! The bed scene and the climax.
Your laugh is infectious.. I’m sure all of The Marx brothers are looking down from above, marveling to the fact that their humor is still appreciated to this day by young lady from Scotland! New subscriber and looking forward to watching all of these and The Young Ones videos!
I would dearly love to see Dawn react to any of W C. Fields.😂❤
What a wonderful reaction. That fourth wall break sure hit perfectly.
Dawn Marie:
Before Harpo's wig was changed to platinum blonde, for cinematic visual reasons, and which started with their third film, the original red wig he wore from when the brother's act first started in vaudeville, then onstage Broadway, etc. , and for their first two movies, was because that Harpo's character was known as a "Patsy" and "...was based on a 'Patsy Brannigan', an Irish-cum-rural type that was a regular character in vaudeville shows.
The type was based on a real-life Irish comic of that name active in the 1890s.
Harpo describes his Patsy Brannigan costume in 'Harpo Speaks'. In this case, Jenny the ex-girl singer mentioned must refer to the original Nightingale Mabel O'Donnell:
"Minnie (Marx, the brother's mother) got out the wig she'd made up for Jenny, our ex-girl singer, cut off the piece that used to cover Jenny's cockeye, and dyed the wig red for me. She sewed bright patches onto my travelling pants, which were pretty well shot anyway, and I used a piece of rope for a suspender. The rest of the costume was my beloved turtle-neck sweater and a decrepit beaver hat that Minnie scrounged out of the boarding-house attic. For a final touch before going onstage, I reddened my ears, painted on some freckles and blacked out three of my front teeth."
Here's Harpo back to wearing the original red wig in "THE STORY OF MANKIND" (1957). ua-cam.com/video/H7de1sTeD6w/v-deo.html
Listening to your lovely laughter over the Marx brothers, makes for the best Monday one can have.
Monday Magick!
Glad to hear that. Duck Soup and Night at the Opera tend to get most of the attention and praise. Not that I dislike them but AC has always been my favorite.
All those knives really where in Harpo's sleeve, he was able to stick a crazy amount of them in there. He got in trouble when he travelled to Russia to perform because they found so many knives in his luggage.
His book is a must read, it's my favourite. They did crazier things in real life than in their movies.
Great reaction Dawn Marie! I love that you love these characters. Also, 18:18, "The fellow in the woodpile" is an interesting turn of words if you google it. Nice of the boys to tone it down in 1930. British politicians have lost their jobs over this phrase as recently as 2019.
Late to the party... glad you like this. Interesting to see younger gens STILL liking the old Classics! I stumbled on a Millenial girl who also likes to watch older movies, and she roared while watching "A Night at the Opera" o0 Thanks for sharing, Dawn! Luv your laff too xo
Thanks for the reaction video, Dawn Marie.
Wonderful to watch you laugh at my second favorite Marx Brothers movie. This will always put a smile on my face, and it has some of the best word play that they ever did.
After you watch Monkey Business, the next should either be Room Service or A Night in Casablanca. While not on the level of their 6 best, both have wonderful moments in them.
There's one scene where Captain Spaulding is played by Zeppo, in the dark when Chico and Harpo steals the painting. Zeppo could imitate and replace all of his three older brothers when illness kept them from performing on stage. He did play Captain Spaulding on Broadway when Groucho got sick and according to Groucho, Zeppo did it better than himself.
I think you still need to see Monkey Business, The Big Store, Room Service, A Night in Casablanca, and Love Happy, and not sure maybe Horse Feathers?
And don't forget about "The Incredible Jewel Robbery" which also stars Ronald Reagan and his horse and pony show. (It was a poor show for him, he didn't bring his horse and pony.)
Great movie(s). It reminds me of when Groucho was ill, and Zeppo took his place in Vaudville, getting rave reviews. He never got to be funny; so he got out of their movies, becoming a successful businessman with Gummo, who had left the group at his mom's behest so that they wouldn't draft the others into the army. The 3 were obviously most famous, but those 2 were also amazing.
Dawn, I love listening to you laugh. ❤
YEAH! Dawn is watching the Marx Brothers!!
Even though I'm old I was never all that big of a Marx Bro's fan. Liked 'em, didn't love 'em. But I'm a HUGE fan of Dawn watching them. Best laugh ever.
I kept thinking, "Margaret is really laughing at some of these moments." And the only thing I can say about seeing these films in sequence is the running gags - Harpo spotting a girl, then stepping forward dangerously - she runs then he chases. Their running gags build up, one film to the other.
Once Dawn's seen 'em all - they will BEG to be re-watched... and again.
ROOM SERVICE and MONKEY BUSINESS complete their early, funny films... then GO WEST and BIG STORE. See 'em all... some won't be AS hysterical but our ribs might enjoy that!
If they had been walking gags maybe they wouldn't have built up.
So many reactions always going on, but the one I really needed today was to the Marx Brothers. Thank you.
Monkey Business should be next, which is great. Zeppo has a bigger part, and there is even a cameo appearance by their father, Frenchy. After that, you still have Horsefeathers to go in order to have seen all their best movies. You will love both. I personally guarantee it.
I think one joke Dawn might not have understood was during the elephant hunt routine. Groucho mentioned he liked hunting in Alabama because everyone knows "...the tusks are looser!" That's a pun for the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It was originally spelled Tuskaloosa because it was the name of a Native American chief from that part of the country. The city also served at Alabama's state capital for nearly 120 years. The Uniersity of Alabama is also found at Tuscaloosa.
Your laugh and facial expressions made it even more fun!
Fantastic reaction!! Thank you for watching my favorite Marx Bros movie!
Captain Spalding is a in joke at the time who was a drug dealer late 1920s- early 1930s. in LA.
Hi Dawn, always great to see you enjoying these classic comedy films. Funnily enough, I was wondering only a couple of days ago when you were going to watch your next one. Thanks, for reacting to these classic films & perhaps encouraging other young people to do the same.
The first five movies were the craziest. They toned it down slightly for A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races, but those were big A productions. After that they never had it so good again and the films started getting a little tired, but they were always enjoyable for their fans. I still think Room Service is a great little film, but it was already an existing play before they inserted the Marx Brothers into it.
Unfortunately, the studio tried to "tame" them to make them more palatable to a bigger audience. And then denied them the first class script writers they had for their earlier films. They could have continued to make great movies if they had had the material to work with.
Through your enjoyment, i am remembering first seeing marx bro movies on television decades ago. When one would be on that i hadn't seen, i was looking forward to it so much. Bravo.....
🎶 "I'll stay a week or two/I'll stay the summer through/But I am telling you/I must be going" 🎶
I love how Dawn talks about an actors eyebrows (Hal Thompson) who has been dead for almost 60 years.
27:17--Abie's Irish Rose
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abie%27s_Irish_Rose
20:10--Triceratops statues?
I'm glad you're watching the uncensored version!