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.

Julius Henry " Groucho " Marx ( October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977 ) was an American comedian and film and television star.

One quip from Marx concerned his response to Sam Wood, the director of the classic film A Night at the Opera.

Frank Sinatra, who once quipped that the only thing he could do better than Marx was sing, made a film with Marx and Jane Russell in 1951 entitled Double Dynamite.

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

" He played a mob boss called " God " and, according to Marx, " both my performance and the film were God-awful!

Groucho's radio life was not as successful as his life on stage and in film, though historians such as Gerald Nachman and Michael Barson suggest that, in the case of the single-season Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel ( 1932 ), the failure may have been a combination of a poor time slot and the Marx Brothers ' returning to Hollywood to make another film.

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.

It was released by the studio where the Marx Brothers began their film career, Paramount Pictures.

* Karl Marx in film

* Karl Marx in film

The Marx Brothers ' films included a musical number in nearly every film, allowing the Brothers to highlight their musical talents.

In the 1935 Marx Brothers ' film " A Night at the Opera ", in one of the more unusual uses of the song, composer Herbert Stothart arranged for a full pit orchestra to segue seamlessly from the overture of Il Trovatore into the chorus of " Take Me Out to the Ball Game ".

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

The film was both a critical and commercial success upon initial release, and remains one of the Marx Brothers ' most beloved and often-quoted movies.

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.

Compared to the Marx Brothers ' previous Paramount films, Duck Soup was a box-office disappointment, although it was not a " flop " as is sometimes reported.

Duck Soup is now widely considered to be a masterpiece, and the Marx Brothers ' finest film.

Groucho Marx | Groucho in one of the many costumes he wore in the war sequence of Duck Soup.

" Fellow film critic Roger Ebert believes, " The Marx Brothers created a body of work in which individual films are like slices from the whole, but Duck Soup is probably the best.

" British film critic Barry Norman was slightly cautious about the Marx Brothers overall, but considered that Duck Soup was their best and included it in his 100 best films of all time.

" The Rolling Stone claimed that Baron Cohen's film " dodges soothing convention and ultimately merits comparisons to The Marx Brothers ' Duck Soup and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator.

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.

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 ).

Ultimately, an unsuccessful suicide attempt leads him to find meaning in his life after unexpectedly viewing the Marx Brothers ' Duck Soup ( part of the ' joyous ' declaration of war sequence is featured ) in a movie theater.

In the 1933 film Duck Soup starring the Marx Brothers, the fictional name of the country " Freedonia " was used.

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

In 1955, Harpo made an appearance on the sitcom I Love Lucy, in which they re-enacted the famous mirror scene from the Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup ( 1933 ).

In 1923 he left film, but would come back eight years later ; a little while after movies started talking ; primarily cast as a character actor in Hollywood ( Ambassador Trentino in the Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup ), while he continued to play leading roles on stage.

The term Freedonia was later popularized by the 1933 Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup, as a fictional country.

For example, Julius Marx would play ( and be credited as ) Groucho, whether he was cast a professor ( as in Horse Feathers ), a veterinarian ( A Day at the Races ), or a president ( Duck Soup ).

* Pinky, character played by Harpo Marx in Horse Feathers and Duck Soup, referring to the color of his wig

The names of the villains were taken from the names of Groucho Marx characters ( Animal Crackers " Captain Spaulding ", A Night at the Operas " Otis B. Driftwood ", Duck Soups " Rufus T. Firefly ", and A Day at the Races " Hugo Z. Hackenbush ", among others ).

-Groucho Marx, from Duck Soup.