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

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

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.

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.

During late 1932 and early 1933, Groucho and Chico were also working on Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel, a radio show written by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman ; there was even, at one time, talk of casting the two as their radio characters for the new film ( an idea that would eventually be used for the later Marx Brothers film The Big Store ).

Introduced by Zeppo Marx, Robert Greig, Margaret Dumont and Groucho Marx in the musical Animal Crackers and also performed by them in the 1930 film version.

He also wrote gags for comedians such as Bob Hope's radio program and for Groucho Marx.

A master ad libber, Allen often tangled with his network's executives ( and often barbed them on the air over the battles ), while developing routines the style and substance of which influenced contemporaries and futures among comic talents, including Groucho Marx, Stan Freberg, Henry Morgan and Johnny Carson, but his fans also included President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and novelists William Faulkner, John Steinbeck and Herman Wouk ( who began his career writing for Allen ).

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

The " 400 of Newport " are delighted with the circus ; when Jardinet arrives, Groucho, who also delayed Jardinet by implicating him in a " dope ring ," disposes of the Frenchman and his orchestra by having them play on a floating bandstand down at the water's edge.

His lifelong friendship with Groucho Marx, for whom he also wrote the iconic Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel radio shows, came to a close when Mr. Perrin served as temporary conservator of the comedian's estate in 1977.

" The Wreck of the Hesperus " is also referenced in the comic song " Lydia the Tattooed Lady ," written by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg and performed by Groucho Marx in the Marx Brothers movie At the Circus ( 1939 ).

She also appeared opposite Groucho Marx as Katisha in a Bell Telephone presentation ( abridged ) of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.

" Fenneman was also selected because of his intelligence and ability to calculate the scores of the contestants, whom Groucho frequently encouraged to bet odd amounts, making the arithmetic difficult to keep straight on the fly during a live show.

( The album's cover photograph, which shows a young couple going to see a fictional movie, " Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player, starring Elton John ", also includes a movie poster of the Marx Brothers ' " Go West ", though whether this was an intentional subtle tribute to Groucho is uncertain ).

This cartoon also introduces the rabbit repeating a well-known Groucho Marx line for the first time that would become part of Bugs Bunny's lexicon.

He also composed the following poem that he read to Groucho.

" The comparison is also reinforced by the scene in the original movie where, waiting for Dana Barrett to finish the day's rehearsals with the orchestra Peter jogs up and down a bustling New York square hopping on a single foot, alternately, just as Groucho Marx used to do.

Groucho had delivered other jokes related to the stock market in the Brothers ' preceding films ( for example, " The stockholder of yesteryear is the stowaway of today " in Monkey Business ).

There were two reasons for this: prerecording provided Groucho with time to fish around for funny exchanges and any intervening dead spots to be edited out ; and secondly to protect the network, since Groucho was a notorious loose cannon and known to say almost anything.

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.

When Groucho was asked for an explanation of the title, he quipped, " Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together.

In January 1910, Harpo joined two of his brothers, Julius ( later " Groucho ") and Milton ( later " Gummo "), to form " The Three Nightingales ".

Groucho left the program in June 1944, replaced by vocalist Kenny Baker until the show's end two months later.

The first sponsored radio show he appeared in to reach a national market was " Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel ," a situation comedy radio show airing from November 28, 1932, and ending May 22, 1933, starring two of the Marx Brothers, Groucho and Chico, and written primarily by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman.

Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel is a situation comedy radio show starring two of the Marx Brothers, Groucho and Chico, and written primarily by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman.

These exaggerated features resulted in the creation of one of the world's most ubiquitous and recognizable novelty disguises, known as " Groucho glasses ", a one-piece mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, large plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and mustache.

" Groucho often asserted in interviews that this exchange never took place, but it remains one of the most often quoted " Groucho-isms " nonetheless.

Once, at a restaurant ( the most common location of Groucho's antics ), a fan came up to him and said, " Excuse me, but aren't you Groucho Marx?

The Groucho Marx-hosted game show, You Bet Your Life, was primarily composed of Marx ' prescripted comebacks to what was most often candid interviews of the contestants, although some contestants were well-known actors ( usually playing for charity ).

The most recognisable of the Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, invited Queen to visit him in his Los Angeles home in March 1977, and the band thanked him in person, and performed "' 39 " a cappella.

Unlike most of his brothers ( bar Gummo ), who were unlucky with love ( Groucho was divorced three times, Chico once, and Zeppo twice ), Harpo's marriage to Susan was lifelong.

In some cases, such as with Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin, the moustache in question was artificial for most of their lives.

The town claimed the Guinness World Record in July, 2001, as the place where the most number of people wore Groucho Marx glasses at the same time ( 522 ).

Hugo Z. Hackenbush ( Groucho Marx ) is a veterinarian who is hired as chief of staff for the Standish Sanitarium, owned by Judy Standish ( Maureen O ' Sullivan ), at the insistence of her most important patient, the rich Mrs. Upjohn, ( Margaret Dumont ), who insists on being treated only by Dr. Hackenbush.

The damage is most noticeable in jump cuts during the scene in which Groucho, Chico and Harpo visit Connie Bailey's apartment.

He is most remembered as the announcer and good-natured sidekick on the Groucho Marx comedy / quiz show vehicle, You Bet Your Life, which began in 1947 on radio and moved to television in 1950, where it remained on NBC for 11 years.

Among the performers and hosts on the show were Bing Crosby ( who made the first and the most appearances as guest host: 31 in all, including his family on several of the annual Christmas shows ), Dean Martin, Liberace, Frank Sinatra, Milton Berle, Sammy Davis, Jr., Sid Caesar, The Rolling Stones, Groucho Marx, Joan Crawford, Betty Davis, Tony Bennett, Judy Garland, Jimmy Durante, The Supremes, Ginger Rogers, The Temptations, Dusty Springfield, Phyllis Diller, Elizabeth Montgomery, and many other famous faces.

The absurdity of the greasepaint was never discussed on-screen, but in a famous scene in Duck Soup, where both Chicolini ( Chico ) and Pinky ( Harpo ) disguise themselves as Groucho, they are briefly seen applying the greasepaint, implicitly answering any question a viewer might have had about where he got his mustache and eyebrows.

" In this spirit, the club was named for Groucho Marx because of his famous remark that he would not wish to join any club that would have him as a member.

Another famous example of this humorous effect is by Groucho Marx as Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding in the 1930 film, Animal Crackers:

* Hello, I Must Be Going ( song ), a song by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, made famous by Groucho Marx

Second, social groups provide a source of self-esteem and pride, a form of reverse Groucho Marxism as in his famous remark " I don't care to belong to any club that would have me as a member.

The Trylon is mentioned in the 1939 Yip Harburg song " Lydia the Tattooed Lady ", made famous by Groucho Marx.

" In this spirit, the club was named after Groucho Marx because of his famous remark that he would not wish to join any club that would have him as a member.

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.

* Groucho Marx responded to an article about him in the magazine with his famous letter -- originally printed in his book The Groucho Letters ( Simon and Schuster, 1967 ) and now in the Library of Congress -- " If you don't stop printing scandalous articles about me, I'll be forced to cancel my subscription.

One of the more famous gags in the film has Groucho giving directions to Chico, who keeps misunderstanding " viaduct " as " why-a-duck ".

After introductions, Groucho repeated the show's famous catch-phrase, " Say the secret word, win a hundred dollars.

As he sails into the air, Bugs mutters his famous line from Groucho Marx: " Of course you realize, dis means war ".