Hurry Sundown signaled a rather precipitous decline in Preminger's reputation, as it was followed by several other films which were critical and commercial failures, including Skidoo ( 1968 ), a failed attempt at a hip sixties comedy ( and Groucho Marx's last film ), and Rosebud ( 1975 ), a terrorism thriller which was also widely ridiculed.

Marx's theme song from Animal Crackers ( 1930 ) " Hooray for Captain Spaulding " is featured, sung in French by a chorus of Groucho Marxes.

During Groucho Marx's live performance at Carnegie Hall ( circa 1972 ), Groucho states that his brother got the name Chico because he was a " Chicken-chaser " ( early slang for chasing women ).

Just as Feldman's quickness and comedic rhythms are reminiscent of Groucho Marx, the game is reminiscent of Marx's You Bet Your Life quiz show in that it is designed more to give the host a chance to interact with the players than to be a serious test of their knowledge.

In 1957, at the age of 78, her sauciness made her a big hit with the audience when she appeared on Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet Your Life.

It first appeared in the 1939 Marx Brothers movie At the Circus and became one of Groucho Marx's signature tunes.

He was also the voice of Elgin-American in their commercials on Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life.

It is notable for Groucho Marx's classic rendition of " Lydia the Tattooed Lady ", and co-stars include Margaret Dumont, Eve Arden, and Kenny Baker.

He often told the story of how he made his way into Groucho Marx's dressing room in 1931 with a forged letter of introduction from Moss Hart.

* Elgin American, maker of watch cases and compacts, sponsored the original radio version of Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life from October 1947 to January 1950.

Cort was invited to live with the famous comedian Groucho Marx in his Bel-Air mansion, and was present at Marx's death in 1977.

Sellador Crocket appeared on Groucho Marx's television program, You Bet Your Life, in 1961 and recounted the story, including the " Rat Trap " reference.

Bootzin received national exposure in 1955, when he appeared as a contestant on Groucho Marx's network TV show You Bet Your Life.

The mid-1940s was a lull in Groucho Marx's career.

In 1954, La Plante made a guest appearance ( as herself, Mrs. Laura Asher ) on Groucho Marx's quiz show, You Bet Your Life.

Lord Buckley appeared on Groucho Marx's popular TV programme You Bet Your Life in 1956.

He sang Groucho Marx's popular " It's delightful, it's Delovely, it's DeSoto " advertising jingle for the former DeSoto automobiles.

Meanwhile, Wydell calls a movie critic to find out about the names of the Firefly family, later discovering that they are all characters from Groucho Marx's movies.

For instance Groucho Marx's line from Animal Crackers: One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas ; how he got into my pyjamas I'll never know.

He would not, however, have a role as popular as Chop Top until 2003, when he starred as the maniacal Otis B. Driftwood ( named after Groucho Marx's character from A Night at the Opera ) in Rob Zombie's directorial debut House of 1000 Corpses.

Huskey appeared with a junk dealer as the third pair of contestants in the 10 May 1950 episode of Groucho Marx's radio show You Bet Your Life.

He can be heard as a contestant on the 3rd February 1958 edition of Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life.

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.

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 ).

Later in life, Groucho would sometimes note to talk-show hosts, not entirely jokingly, that he was unable to actually insult anyone, because the target of his comment assumed it was a Groucho-esque joke and would laugh.

One more complex running joke has Groucho turning the dialogue into a scene out of a Eugene O ' Neill play, Strange Interlude, in which the characters continually spoke asides that revealed their thoughts.

In the 1929 movie The Cocoanuts the station was name-checked by Chico Marx in a sequence of running gags between Chico and Groucho: Chico uses the station's call-sign as the punchline of a punning joke based on his confusion over the meaning of the word " radius ", which he confuses with ' radios ', leading to the mention of the station's call-sign.

Bovril is served at the Groucho Club and is associated with football culture, being commonly drunk on the terraces from thermos flasks in winter.

The FBI has generated files on numerous celebrities including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, John Denver, John Lennon, Jane Fonda, Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, MC5, Lou Costello, Sonny Bono, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Mickey Mantle, and Gene Autry.

In a 1950 radio episode of You Bet Your Life, Groucho stated that he was born in a room above a butcher's shop on 78th Street in New York City.

By the time the Marxes made their first movie, they were major stars with sharply honed skills, and when Groucho was relaunched to stardom on You Bet Your Life, he had already been performing successfully for half a century.

Similar anecdotes are corroborated by Groucho's friends, not one of whom went without being publicly embarrassed by Groucho on at least one occasion.

Much of his personal correspondence with those and other figures is featured in the book The Groucho Letters ( 1967 ) with an introduction and commentary on the letters written by Groucho, who donated his letters to the Library of Congress.

In the mid-1940s, during a depressing lull in his career ( his radio show Blue Ribbon Town had failed, and the Marx Brothers as film performers were well past their prime ), Groucho was scheduled to appear on a radio show with Bob Hope.

Annoyed that he was made to wait in the waiting room for 40 minutes, Groucho went on the air in a foul mood.

Groucho said, " Well, I've had no success in radio, and I can't hold on to a sponsor.

Another recording made by Groucho during this period was " The Funniest Song in the World ", released on the Young Peoples ' Records label in 1949.

By the time You Bet Your Life debuted on TV on October 5, 1950, Groucho had grown a real mustache ( which he had already sported earlier in the films Copacabana and Love Happy ).

In 1960, Groucho, a lifelong devotee of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, appeared as Koko the Lord High Executioner in a televised production of The Mikado on NBC's Bell Telephone Hour.

Another TV show, Tell It To Groucho, premiered January 11, 1962 on CBS, but only lasted five months.

In the early 1970s, largely at the behest of companion Erin Fleming, Groucho had a live one-man show, including one recorded at Carnegie Hall in 1972 and released as a double album, An Evening with Groucho, on A & M Records.

He also made an appearance in 1973 on a short-lived variety show hosted by Bill Cosby, who idolized Groucho.

Groucho developed friendships with rock star Alice Cooper — the two were photographed together for Rolling Stone magazine — and television host Dick Cavett, becoming a frequent guest on Cavett's late-night talk show.

His health was noticeably worsening by the following year and when Gummo died, aged 84, on April 21, 1977, in Palm Springs, California, the death of his younger brother was not reported to Groucho because it was thought too detrimental to his health.

" When Groucho himself was on his deathbed, and a nurse came around with a thermometer, explaining that she wanted to see if he had a temperature, he responded, " Don't be silly — everybody has a temperature.

* In his autobiography, Groucho and Me, Groucho Marx talks about playing whist with an ex-girlfriend during a chapter on her husbands insomnia.

( Joe Adamson, in Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Sometimes Zeppo, observed that this scene disproved the common notion that Zeppo was the least of the Marx Brothers: " It takes a Marx Brother to pull something like that on a Marx Brother and get away with it.