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 )

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.

Marx and his brothers respected his opinions and asked him on several occasions to write some material for them.

An early photo of the Marx brothers with their parents in New York City, 1915.

Groucho Marx made 26 movies, 13 of them with his brothers Chico and Harpo.

The film stars the four brothers, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, and Zeppo Marx, as well as Lillian Roth and Margaret Dumont.

* The title is also used by the College of ' Pataphysics as Transcendent Satrap for certain of its members, among which were counted such peoples as Marcel Duchamp, Jean Baudrillard and the Marx brothers.

Groucho Marx later claimed that the brothers spent too much time at Wrigley Field watching the Chicago Cubs to make the farm economically viable.

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In the Marx Brothers ' movie At the Circus ( 1939 ), however, Harpo " speaks " in a movie with the brothers in the scene in which he visits the room of Little Professor Atom ( Jerry Maren ) and sneezes, clearly saying " At-choo !".

Harpo's death was said to have hit the surviving Marx brothers very hard.

These are references to the five Marx brothers and their long-suffering foil, Margaret Dumont.

In the Sierra Entertainment PC game Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire, you get to meet some of the Marx brothers: Groucho Marx ( Ali Fakir, the saurus seller ), Harpo Marx ( wandering around Shapeir's streets with a horn ) and Chico Marx ( the merchant Ali Chica ).

In Lady Blue Eyes, Barbara Sinatra claims that Marx was considered too young to perform with his brothers, and it wasn't until Gummo joined the Army that Marx was asked to join the act as a last-minute stand-in at a show in Texas.

Born in New York City, he worked with his brothers on the vaudeville circuit, but left acting when he was drafted into the U. S. Army during World War I, years before his four brothers ( Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, and Zeppo Marx ) began their film career.

In 1964 Marx starred in " Time for Elizabeth ", episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, a truncated version of a play that Groucho Marx and Norman Krasna wrote in 1948.

First released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on November 17, 1933, it starred what were then billed as the " Four Marx Brothers " ( Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo ) and also featured Margaret Dumont, Raquel Torres, Louis Calhern and Edgar Kennedy.

* In 1932 and 1933, Groucho and Chico Marx starred in a situation comedy named Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel, which depicted the misadventures of a small law firm.

A sample page from a January 23, 1933, typed manuscript of the 1932-33 NBC radio show Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel that starred The Marx Brothers Groucho and Chico.

* Allen W. Wood, Karl Marx ( Arguments of the Philiosophers series ), Routledge 2004 delves into misinterpretations of Marx including the substitution of " Historical materialism " by Lenin

In July 2005, 27. 9 % of listeners in a BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time poll selected Marx as their favorite thinker.

Building on its later popularity in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century ethnic routines of the American vaudeville house, the style was explored extensively during the " golden era " of black and white, silent movies directed by figures Mack Sennett and Hal Roach and featuring such notables as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, the Keystone Kops, Gumball ( TV series ) the Three Stooges and El Chavo.

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While observing the slums of Manchester in close detail, Engels took notes of the horrors he observed, notably child labor, the despoiled environment and the overworked and impoverished laborers and sent back a series of articles to Marx, first for publication in the Rheinische Zeitung and then for publication in Deutsch – Franzosische Jahrbucher, chronicling the conditions amongst the working class in Manchester.

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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 ).

* Part I: Alienation of Karl Marx, by Allen W. Wood, in the Arguments of the Philosophers series, is an introductory article.

Groucho Marx and Albert Einstein were both fans of the series.

Marx and Engels advocated ' permanent revolution ' as the proletarian strategy of maintaining organisational independence along class lines, and a consistently militant series of political demands and tactics.

A set of spark gaps are a key element of a Marx generator, used to generate high-voltage impulses ; the spark gaps allow a chain of capacitors to be slowly charged in parallel and then rapidly discharged in series.

In 1965, the duo made a series of six short documentaries about comedians such as W. C. Fields and the Marx Brothers, titled Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look At ..., which were telecast on CBS in the summer of 1966.

Between 1977 and 1979, he appeared in Steve Allen's PBS series, Meeting of Minds, portraying Martin Luther and Karl Marx.

* The Marx Society of London was formed By Mansoor Hekmat and Koroosh Modarresi after a long series of debates following the major split in the WPI in August 2004.

Percy Toplis the The Monocled Mutineer, founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Planters mascot Mr. Peanut, Batman series antagonist Oswald Cobblepot ( also known as The Penguin ), Portuguese President António de Spínola, filmmakers Fritz Lang and Erich Von Stroheim, prominent 19th century Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz, Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, actor Conrad Veidt, Dadaists Tristan Tzara and Raoul Hausmann, esotericist Julius Evola, French collaborationist politician Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, criminal Percy Toplis, Poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson, singer Richard Tauber, diplomat Christopher Ewart-Biggs ( a smoked-glass monocle, to disguise his glass eye ), Major Johnnie Cradock, actors Ralph Lynn and George Arliss, Karl Marx and Milburn Pennybags.

Among the most enduring Marx creations were a long series of boxed ' Play Sets ' throughout the 1950s & 1960s based on television shows and historical events.

This pricing formula adhered to the Marx policy of ' more for less ' and made the entire series attainable to the masses for many years.

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* 1986: Jeffrey A. Marx and Michael M. York, Lexington Herald-Leader ( Kentucky ), " for their series ' Playing Above the Rules ,' which exposed cash payoffs to University of Kentucky basketball players in violation of NCAA regulations.

The creator of the series, Christy Marx, had also been a staff writer for the aforementioned programs.

Joe writer Christy Marx was hired to create the series based on the line of dolls and the original concept, which consisted of the two girl bands, Synergy, the boyfriend Rio, and the Rockin ' Roadster.

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