The Best of the Marx Brothers

This collection gathers written and spoken comedy associated with Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and their partners: excerpts from memoirs and letters, radio courtroom sketches, and dialogue from stage and film routines. Recurring voices include Groucho's insult patter, Chico's immigrant word-play, and Harpo's mute disruption as reported by others. Settings are staterooms, opera houses, colleges, and fly-by-night law offices. The pieces are independent rather than a single script. The volume is a sampler of Marxian verbal and situation comedy on the page, not a formal history of vaudeville and not a complete shooting script of every film.

Bound in silver cloth blocked in black and white with images. Silver slipcase.