His job is to go on the radio and say to the American people, "We can do this or we can do that. That is bad and this is good ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Cocoanuts, released in 1929, marks the Marx Brothers' first foray into feature ...

Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...

It will be 50 years next month since the death of Arthur “Harpo” Marx, but his legacy looms large. “He was a fascinating man,” his son Bill Marx said. “He died when he was 75 years old, and he lived ...

STAATSBURG — Staatsburgh State Historic Site presents an evening of historic film and comic art with a screening of a Marx Brothers film, “The Cocoanuts.” Based on the George S. Kaufman-penned ...

In a time where genres and comedic styles were shifting, it became difficult for entertainers to remain popular. But not for the Marx Brothers. They were the greatest entertainers of their time and ...

Never was a director more aptly named than Sam Wood: his movies are redwood forests of unrelieved monotony. Irving Thalberg certainly knew what he was doing when he assigned Wood to direct the first ...

Some of the properties headed into the public domain on Jan. 1 include the first Marx Brothers' film, William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and the first appearances of Popeye the Sailor Man.

Does Groucho Marx still matter? You bet your life he does. The best case for his relevance is Frank Ferrante’s “An Evening With Groucho,” which the 61-year-old actor will deliver three times in ...