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"Groucho's autobiography makes for great reading, packed as it is with his trademark humour, but perhaps it isn't the greatest insight into the secrets of the Marx Brothers. Groucho's jokes are a smokescreen and on the whole his agonies are dismissed with a few gags. But who cares? This is a must read for Groucho-philes and hey, if it was a straight autobiography how would we know Groucho had written it?"
Claire Baldwin, Resident Scholar
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"This book covers the early years of the Marx Brothers, with superb portraits of their rather eccentric parents, and a humorous picture of growing up poor but hopeful in New York at the turn of the century, followed by perhaps the best first-hand description of a Vaudeville life ever written. The characters and events are sometimes so much larger than life that readers may question how much exaggeration Groucho is indulging in, but there's something so engaging about his narrative style that makes it hard not to go along with it.
It takes readers from the early days of doing anything to make ends meet (including Chico and Harpo playing piano in brothels) up to the great Hollywood days.
In the end, this whole book just flies of the page and leaves you with the feeling of having been in the company it like being in the presence of one of the great raconteurs and wits of the last century. "
Neil McLaren, Resident Scholar
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Plot
job/profession:
- actor/actress
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Kind of living:
- general poverty story
Story of entertainer?
- Movie Comedy Actor
Period of greatest activity?
- 1900+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- actor/actress/producer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
Biography of famous person?
Yes
Ethnicity
- Jew
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
- Very much smarter than other people
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 4 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- Los Angeles
Century:
- 1900-1920's
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Book makes you feel?
- very happy
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- puns
- eccentric personalities
- Dry-cynical
- slapstick
- sarcastic/sardonic
- surreal
Writer's slant towards subject:
- very favorable
- favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
Autobiography?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- More 6-10 B&W
- A ton 16-20 B&W
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
- little dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 51%-75% of book
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