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Marx spent his early years accompanying his father around vaudeville circuits in the United States and abroad.
( The story of Samuel Goldwyn is as much the history of H...)
The story of Samuel Goldwyn is as much the history of Hollywood and the motion picture business as it is the story of one man. Yet to many, the man who founded the studios that evolved into Paramount and MGM was simply a buffoon, better suited to coining malapropisms than for being a producer. Arthur Marx shows us a Goldwyn who was a highly complex and puzzling individual. He supplies in abundance the famous Goldwynisms―and a good many stories printed here for the first time. Rich in anecdotal detail about both Goldwyn’s personal and his professional life, this biography is a testament to his role as both a perfectionist in art and a founder of one of America’s great industries.
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Reveals how Hope's image as a happily married entertainer of U.S. troops was a myth created to hide his womanizing, the casting couch he operated out of his office, and his sadistic treatment of his staff. 30,000 first printing.
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(Actually this book seems to be most of the research for N...)
Actually this book seems to be most of the research for Nick Toshes book. Minus the mob and language. Although you get the feeling that Arthur Marx really knew and liked the subjects he's writting about. Would recommend it to be included in any collectors library.
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(¿Qué se escondía tras Groucho Marx, aquel sarcástico pers...)
¿Qué se escondía tras Groucho Marx, aquel sarcástico personaje que en sus películas se dedicaba a destruir los convencionalismos de nuestra sociedad? Según su hijo Arthur, el autor de este libro, ocultaba un padre de familia tierno y cariñoso, un amigo leal y un hombre prudente, pero también un tacaño recalcitrante, un egoísta impredecible y un neurótico insoportable. Obsesionado por la figura de su padre, el autor pretende, con este libro, escribir la biografía definitiva del gran cómico americano. Y lo hace a partir de un artículo que publicó en la revista Colliers en 1951, texto que sufrió numerosos añadidos y remodelaciones hasta llegar a su estado definitivo. Groucho no se mostró muy de acuerdo con la visión que su hijo tenía de él, hasta el punto de realizar varios intento de sabotaje para que el libro no viera la luz, pero eso no ha impedido que ahora podamos disfrutar de esta singular rememoración , llena de anécdotas y situaciones jocosas. Y así, desde los inicios de Groucho en el vodevil hasta su labor en el cine, la radio y la televisión, salen a la luz aspectos de la vida privada de personaje que sólo los recuerdos familiares podían evocar.
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(Groucho Marx became world famous as the fast talking, wis...)
Groucho Marx became world famous as the fast talking, wisecracking man with the moustache and the big cigar. That was his public image. but there was another Groucho--a warm, loving family man. This biography of one of America's most brilliant comedians is also the account of an intimate father-son relationship. Arthur Marx tells of his own stormy life with his father and what it was like to grow up with the Marx Brothers.
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(Down-and-out screenwriter and amateur tennis wiz Arthur M...)
Down-and-out screenwriter and amateur tennis wiz Arthur Marx lands a job as manager of an exclusive tennis club, where he is implicated in the murder of an employee. By the author of Life with Groucho.
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Marx spent his early years accompanying his father around vaudeville circuits in the United States and abroad.
Student, University Southern California, 1939-1940.
He is named after Groucho"s brother Arthur "Harpo" Marx. When he was 10, the family moved to Southern California, where the Marx Brothers continued their film careers. Marx was a nationally ranked tennis player before he was 18.
At the Cincinnati Masters, Marx reached the singles final in 1941 before falling to Bobby Riggs.
To reach the final, Marx knocked off future International Tennis Hall of Fame member John Doeg in the round of 16, Frank Froehling in the Quarterfinals, and Gardner Larned in the Semifinals. Riggs had blown through his competition to reach the final, and Marx gave him his toughest test of the tournament, stretching the future Hall of Famer to five sets before falling, 11-9, 6-2, 4-6, 6-8, 6-1.
After his time as a tournament tennis player and four years in the United States Coast Guard during World World War II, 16 months of which were spent in the South Pacific, he worked as an advertising copywriter, a radio gag man for Milton Berle, and a writer of Hollywood movies, Broadway plays and television scripts for such hit shows as My Three Sons, All in the Family, and Alice. He and his collaborator, Robert Fisher, were head writers for Alice and wrote 40 episodes of that show.
Marx was also co-creator of the television series Mickey starring Mickey Rooney.
On his own, Marx wrote 12 books, including The Ordeal of Willie Brown (1951), Not as a Crocodile (1958), Goldwyn: A Biography of the Manitoba Behind the Myth (1976), Red Skelton (1979), The Nine Lives of Mickey Rooney (1988), The Secret Life of Bob Hope and the tennis-themed murder mystery Secretariat to Kill (both 1993). His 1974 book on Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis entitled Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime (Especially Himself) was adapted into the 2002 made-for-television movie Martin and Lewis. Marx also wrote several books featuring different takes on his relationship with his father, including Life with Groucho (1954), Son of Groucho (1972), My Life With Groucho (1992), and Arthur Marx’s Groucho: A Photographic Journey (2001).
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(Down-and-out screenwriter and amateur tennis wiz Arthur M...)
( The story of Samuel Goldwyn is as much the history of H...)
( The story of Samuel Goldwyn is as much the history of H...)
(Groucho Marx became world famous as the fast talking, wis...)
(Actually this book seems to be most of the research for N...)
(First Edition (stated); First Printing (10 to 1 print num...)
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Served with United States Coast Guard, 1942-1945, PTO. Member Dramatists Guild, Authors Guild, Writers Guild American, West, Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, International Association Crime Writers.
Son of Groucho and Ruth (Johnson) M. M. Irene Kahn, February 27, 1943 (divorced 1960). Children: Steve, Andy.
M. Lois Goldberg, June 27, 1961.