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.

The Marx Brothers were notorious for deviating from the script they were given, their ad libs often becoming part of the standard routine and making their way into their films.

She continued to produce films for others, including Sleep, My Love ( 1948 ) with Claudette Colbert and Love Happy ( 1949 ) with the Marx Brothers.

The deal included such notable Paramount films as the early Marx Brothers films, most of the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby " Road " pictures, and such Oscar contenders as Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, and The Heiress.

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.

" This Country's Going To War " is the final musical ensemble in the film, and is also the only musical number in the Marx Brothers ' films to feature all four of the Brothers.

" 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.

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.

Marx frequently used props such as a horn cane, made up of a lead pipe, tape, and a bulbhorn, and he played the harp in most of his films.

His non-speaking in his early films was occasionally referred to by the other Marx Brothers, who were careful to imply that his character's not speaking was a choice rather than a disability.

The Russia trip was later memorialized in a bizarre science fiction novella, The Foreign Hand Tie by Randall Garrett, a tale of telepathic spies which is full of references to the Marx Brothers and their films.

George S. Kaufman, co-author of Dinner at Eight, various Marx Brothers films, and two George Gershwin plays, came from New York to meet with Thalberg.

He performed several horse-riding stunts in such films as the Marx Brothers ' A Day at the Races ( 1937 ) and Gunga Din ( 1939 ).

He appeared in the first five Marx Brothers feature films, from 1929 to 1933, but then left the act to start his second career as an engineer and theatrical agent.

He worked, uncredited, on many films ( including the Marx Brothers ' hit A Night at the Opera ).

* Otis B. Driftwood, a fictional character that has appeared in the Rob Zombie horror films House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects taken from the character of the same name popularized by Groucho Marx

It has been heard in various guises in many films including Gone with the Wind ; Duel in the Sun ; Mighty Joe Young ; The Death Collector ; Batman ( 1989 ); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ; the animated An American Tail ; Drop Dead Gorgeous ; Friends ' Til The End ; Office Space ; the Marx Brothers's Go West ; The Old Chisholm Trail ; and The Naked Spur.

Jurmann's successful films include Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) (" Love Song of Tahiti "), the 1936 movie San Francisco (" Theme from San Francisco "), the 1937 Marx Brothers ' A Day at the Races (" All God's Chillun Got Rhythm "), and Presenting Lily Mars ( 1943 ) starring Judy Garland.

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 ".

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.

She is remembered mostly for being the comic foil to Groucho Marx in seven of the Marx Brothers films.

His television program, Championship Bridge with Charles Goren, was broadcast from 1959 to 1964 on the ABC network, and, in addition to numerous appearances by top players, included segments with celebrity guests such as Chico Marx, Alfred Drake and Forest Evashevski, among others.

* The Rotting Goddess by Yakov Rabinovich, complete book included in the anthology " Junkyard of the Classics " published under the pseudonym Ellipsis Marx.

Non-relatives attending the funeral included three communist associates of Marx: Friedrich Lessner, imprisoned for three years after the Cologne communist trial of 1852 ; G. Lochner, whom Engels described as " an old member of the Communist League "; and Carl Schorlemmer, a professor of chemistry in Manchester, a member of the Royal Society, and a communist activist involved in the 1848 Baden revolution.

It was in the city that he also came across newly translated Marxist literature, further committing him to the revolutionary socialist cause: these included Thomas Kirkup's A History of Socialism, Karl Kautsky's Karl Marx's Ökonomische Lehren and most importantly, Marx and Engels ' political pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto.

* Marx, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1980 ; Hill & Wang, New York, 1980 ; reissued as Marx: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2000 ; also included in full in K. Thomas ( ed.

The 1891 founding professors included Robert Allardice in mathematics, Douglas Houghton Campbell in botany, Charles Henry Gilbert in zoology, George Elliott Howard in history, Oliver Peebles Jenkins in physiology and histology, Charles David Marx in civil engineering, Fernando Sanford in physics and John Maxson Stillman in chemistry.

Besides Marx and Engels, other frequent contributors to the Neue Rheinische Zeitung included Karl Schapper, Wilhelm Wolff, Ernst Dronke, Peter Nothjung, Heinrich Bürgers, Ferdinand Wolf and Carl Cramer.

" Her " Friends " included Jann Arden, Jimmy Barnes, John Farrar, Barry Gibb, Delta Goodrem, Sun Ho, Richard Marx, Cliff Richard, Melinda Schneider, Amy Sky and Keith Urban.

Along with Schechter and Bernard Drachman, professors at the Seminary at the time included: Louis Ginzberg, professor of Talmud ; Alexander Marx, professor of history and rabbinical literature and librarian ; Israel Friedländer, professor of Bible ; Joseph Mayor Asher, professor of homiletics ; and Joshua A. Joffe, instructor in Talmud.

Those focused on working conditions included Friedrich Engels, whose book The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 would inspire the Marxist movement named for his collaborator, Karl Marx.

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

A team from the Victoria University of Manchester ( which included David Aaronovitch ) answered every question " Che Guevara ", " Marx ", " Trotsky " or " Lenin ", possibly in the hope of making the resulting show unbroadcastable.

Kentwood Hall, originally built as the luxury Kentwood Arms Hotel ( 1926 ) and whose guests included President Harry S. Truman and comedian Groucho Marx, accommodates 136 upper-class men and women and non-traditional students in a co-ed environment.

Other influences he acknowledged in his memoirs included Socrates, Gautama Buddha, Lao Tzu, Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus, Confucius, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Otis Whitman, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Victor Hugo, Edward Bellamy, Olive Schreiner, Richard Maurice Bucke, and Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe.

Lillian Gish was his godmother, and his family guests included Ben Hecht, Harpo Marx, Robert Benchley, Beatrice Lillie, John Barrymore, and John Steinbeck.

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 ).

Both parents were vaudeville comedians and actors, and his father's acquaintances included Fred Allen, Benny Goodman, Walter Winchell, Jack Benny, and Groucho Marx.

Those joining the SDF included William Morris, George Lansbury and Eleanor Marx.

Hyndman gathered his factional supporters for his defense, while his opponents, who included William Morris, Belfort Bax, Eleanor Marx, and Edward Aveling, mustered their own forces.

Marx and Engels, in setting out the strategy for future revolutions in The Communist Manifesto, included the provision that the property of émigrés should be confiscated and used to finance the revolution — a recommendation followed by the Bolsheviks seventy years later.

Bebel, along with Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Ferdinand Lassalle, was among the socialist icons included in bas relief portraits on the facade of the The Forward building, erected in 1912 as the headquarters of the New York Yiddish-language socialist newspaper.