Groucho Letters: Letters to and from Groucho Marx - Brossura

Marx, Groucho

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1847391036 ISBN 13: 9781847391032

Casa editrice: POCKET BOOKS, 2007

Riassunto

THE GROUCHO LETTERS enjoys the very best of Groucho's correspondence with the greatest wits and minds of his day. Correspondents include James Thurber, T.S. Eliot, President Harry Truman, Edward R. Murrow, Jerry Lewis, Howard Hughes, Irving Berlin and of course, Chico, Harpo and Gummo. He writes to comics, corporations, children, presidents, and even his daughter's boyfriend. Here is Groucho swapping photos with T. S. Eliot ('I had no idea you were so handsome!'); advising his son on courting a rich dame ('Don't come out bluntly and say, "How much dough have you got?" That wouldn't be the Marxian way'); reacting with utmost composure when informed that he has been made into a verb by James Joyce ('There's no reason why I shouldn't appear in Finnegan's Wake . I'm certainly as bewildered about life as Joyce was'); and crisply declining membership in a Hollywood club ('I don't care to belong to any social organization that will accept me as a member'). No personage is too big, no nuance too small, no subject too far-out for Groucho's spontaneous, hilarious, and ferocious typewriter.

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Groucho Marx enjoyed a sensational career on Broadway and in Hollywood as a member of the Marx Brothers. He died in 1977.

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THE GROUCHO LETTERS is a classic retrospective of the funny man's best letters with the biggest personalities of his day.
Displaying the wit and wisdom of one of the twentieth century's most beloved comedians, THE GROUCHO LETTERS enjoys the very best of Groucho's correspondence with the greatest wits and minds of his day. Correspondents include T.S. Eliot, President Harry Truman, Edward R. Murrow, Jerry Lewis, Howard Hughes and of course, Chico, Harpo and Gummo. He writes to comics, corporations, children, presidents, and even his daughter's boyfriend.
Here is Groucho swapping photos with T. S. Eliot ('I had no idea you were so handsome!'); advising his son on courting a rich dame ('Don't come out bluntly and say, "How much dough have you got?" That wouldn't be the Marxian way'); reacting with utmost composure when informed that he has been made into a verb by James Joyce ('There's no reason why I shouldn't appear in Finnegan's Wake. I'm certainly as bewildered about life as Joyce was'); and crisply declining membership in a Hollywood club ('I don't care to belong to any social organization that will accept me as a member').
No personage is too big, no nuance too small, no subject too far-out for Groucho's spontaneous, hilarious, and ferocious typewriter.
'Written with the impudence, irreverence and general lunacy that made Groucho the immortal wise guy of the American screen'
Newsweek

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• Editore: POCKET BOOKS
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1847391036
• ISBN 13: 9781847391032
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320