During the 1930s, the silent film comedy was replaced by dialogue from film comedians such as the W. C. Fields and the Marx Brothers.

For example, the Marx Brothers ' classic film Duck Soup, at the climax of the film, the camera shows a shot of Groucho Marx speaking a line, followed by a shot of something else happening, followed by another shot of Groucho.

Executive producer Doug Berman said in 2012, " The guys are culturally right up there with Mark Twain and the Marx Brothers.

) She also performed some acrobatics while trying to steal a wallet from Groucho Marx in the Marx Brothers film At the Circus ( 1939 ).

Dialogue now took precedence over " slapstick " in Hollywood comedies: the fast-paced, witty banter of The Front Page ( 1931 ) or It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), the sexual double entrendres of Mae West ( She Done Him Wrong, 1933 ) or the often subversively anarchic nonsense talk of the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ).

Originally the name FASA was an acronym for " Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration ", a joking allusion to the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.

He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born.

The Marx Brothers would perform variations on this routine for the next seven years.

The Marx Brothers became the biggest comedic stars of the Palace Theatre, which billed itself as the " Valhalla of Vaudeville ".

Marx Brothers | The Marx Brothers ( from top, Chico Marx | Chico, Harpo Marx | Harpo, Groucho, and Zeppo Marx )

As the Marx Brothers, he and his brothers starred in a series of popular stage shows and movies.

Furious with the Marx Brothers ' ad-libs and antics on the set, Wood yelled in disgust: " You can't make an actor out of clay.

Marx Brothers | The Marx Brothers ( clockwise: Groucho, Chico Marx | Chico, and Harpo Marx | Harpo ) by Yusuf Karsh in 1948.

While under contract with Paramount, Chevalier's name was so recognized that his passport featured in the Marx Brothers film Monkey Business ( 1931 ).

In the sound era McCarey ventured into feature-film direction, working with many of the biggest stars of the era, including Gloria Swanson ( Indiscreet, 1931 ), Eddie Cantor ( The Kid From Spain, 1932 ), the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ), W. C. Fields ( Six of a Kind, 1934 ), Mae West ( Belle of the Nineties, 1934 ), and Harold Lloyd ( The Milky Way, 1936 ).

It is also implied that Harpo is singing ( baritone ) in the opening scene of Monkey Business ( 1931 ), where the four Marx Brothers, stowed away in barrels aboard a cruise liner, sing a four-part harmony of " Sweet Adeline.

* Monkey Business ( 1931 film ), a Marx Brothers film

Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman, who had contributed to the scripts of the Marx Brothers ' films Monkey Business ( 1931 ) and Horse Feathers ( 1932 ), were enlisted to write the comedy show.

He debuted this new, and now much-older, appearance in Love Happy, the Marx Brothers's last film as a comedy team.

* One version of Minuit was played by Groucho Marx in the 1957 comedy film The Story of Mankind.

Duck Soup is a 1933 Marx Brothers anarchic comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, with additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin, and directed by Leo McCarey.

A Night at the Opera is a 1935 American comedy film starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx, and featuring Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, and Walter Woolf King.

is a 1957 American satiric comedy film starring Jayne Mansfield and Tony Randall, with Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Henry Jones, Lili Gentle, Mickey Hargitay, and a cameo by Groucho Marx.

Top comedy talents surfed the airwaves for many years: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Victor Borge, Fanny Brice, Billie Burke, Bob Burns, Judy Canova, Jimmy Durante, Phil Harris, Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Jean Shepherd, Red Skelton and Ed Wynn.

He began appearing in motion pictures in a comedy series pairing him with silent film legend Buster Keaton and continuing with The Wet Parade ( 1932 ), Broadway to Hollywood ( 1933 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942, playing " Banjo ", a character based on Harpo Marx ), Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ), Billy Rose's Jumbo ( 1962, based on the 1935 musical ) and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

Around 1917 the Marx Brothers family ( later a famous comedy team ) bought a chicken farm near Joliet Road ( Route 66 ) and LaGrange Road.

This was a tribute to Harpo and Groucho's famous mirror scene in the Marx Brothers comedy classic, Duck Soup.

Crawford returned to vaudeville and radio, which included a period with the Marx Brothers on their NBC radio comedy show Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel.

His first major screen credit was the Marx Brothers comedy A Day at the Races in 1937.

Though Marx continued to play straight in the Brothers ' movies at Paramount, he did occasionally get to be part of classic comedy moments in them — in particular, his role taking dictation from Groucho in Animal Crackers ( 1930 ).

* A Night at the Opera ( film ) ( 1935 ), a Marx Brothers comedy film

One of their first American films was the Marx Brothers comedy A Night at the Opera ( 1935 ), for which they scored the song " Cosi-Cosa ".

He had the unusual ability to project the right balance of menace and pomposity required to be an effective heavy in comedy films, such as those of the Marx Brothers or Abbott and Costello.

The comedy that the trio performed can be described as an updated version of that of The Marx Brothers and early Bugs Bunny cartoons ; each segment would usually involve them at odds with an authority-figure antagonist, defeating any attempts at control with a non-stop barrage of slapstick comedy and wit.

His musical abilities, penchant for physical comedy, and usual quiet attitude seem to reference Harpo Marx.

Their light-hearted comedy style was influenced by the style of popular Italian group Brutos and by the anarchist humor of the Marx Brothers.

At the Circus ( a. k. a. The Marx Brothers at the Circus ) is a 1939 Marx Brothers comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in which they save a circus from bankruptcy.

Although it did not do as well as Horse Feathers, it was the sixth-highest grossing film of 1933, according to Glenn Mitchell in The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia and Simon Louvish in Monkey Business, his biography of the Marx Brothers.

Universal Home Video released Duck Soup on DVD, unrestored but uncut, as part of a six-disc box set The Marx Brothers: Silver Screen Collection, which includes also the Brothers ' other Paramount films, The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, and Horse Feathers.

Appearing in about 120 pictures between 1926 and 1935, she is best remembered for her comedic roles in films like Marx Brothers ' Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, a number of Charley Chase's short comedies, and co-starring with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in Speak Easily.

Marx was impressed with Perrin, and arranged for him to be hired by Paramount Studios for the film " Monkey Business ".

The film is most notable for a six-minute segment starring the Marx Brothers — with Ben Taggart playing Mr. Lee, Theatrical Producer — intended to promote their forthcoming film Monkey Business.

* Monkey Business with the Marx Brothers ( see above section )

* In the Marx Brothers movie Monkey Business, the following lines occur: Woman: You're awfully shy for a lawyer.

To avoid confusion with the famous Marx Brothers movie of the same name, this film is sometimes referred to as Howard Hawks ' Monkey Business.