![]() Driftwood.” By the time he’s made one circuit of the room, he gets a response from the man seated next to Mrs. Claypool (Margaret Dumont), has been stood-up by her dinner date in a posh restaurant. With his grease paint-enhanced mustache and bent-over duck walk, Groucho was the wisecracking, cigar-smoking top banana Chico (pronounced “Chick-o” for his skirt-chasing antics) was the piano player and Harpo with his curly, red, Bob Dylan-like wig was a mute who strummed the harp.Ī wealthy dowager, Mrs. ![]() The distinct personalities of the Marx brothers were established during their vaudeville years, long before their 1929 feature-film debut, The Cocoanuts. A new selection, all currently available on DVD, appears every week. Trolling the backwaters of cinema, he has worked up a list of more than 100 titles-from the ’20s through the ’90s-that you may have missed. MAGNET contributing writer Jud Cost is sharing some of the wealth of classic films he’s been lucky enough to see over the past 40 years.
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