Zeppo : the reluctant Marx brother /

Zeppo : the reluctant Marx brother /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bader, Robert S., author.
Imprint:	Essex, Connecticut : Applause, Theatre & Cinema Books, [2024]
Description:	x, 332 pages, 24 umnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Marx, Zeppo, -- 1901-1979. Actors -- United States -- Biography. Comedians -- United States -- Biography. Talent scouts -- United States -- Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13574564

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ISBN:	9781493087969 1493087967 9781493087976
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Zeppo was the Marx Brother who didn't want to go into the family business. A juvenile delinquent in his teen years, before joining his brothers on stage, Zeppo balanced two careers: auto mechanic and petty criminal. Even after getting dragged into the world of entertainment-for sixteen years, he did his familial duty as a vaudeville, Broadway, and movie star-he finally made his escape from the Four Marx Brothers, making failed attempts to find steady work in real estate, screenwriting, and the restaurant business. It was only after Zeppo hit it big as a Hollywood talent agent, representing stars like Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, and Lana Turner, that his fortunes took a turn. He bred racehorses, owned a manufacturing plant, became a citrus rancher, a commercial fisherman, and an inventor with several patents. He was, in short, a complex character, and his own family never quite figured him out. Zeppo: The Reluctant Marx Brother gives a lively account of this checkered life and career"--
Other form:	Online version: Bader, Robert S. Zeppo Lanham : Applause, [2024] 9781493087976

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Accidental Brother
Chapter 2. The Fifth Son Also Rises
Chapter 3. The Juvenile Six
Chapter 4. What's in a Name?
Chapter 5. The Reluctant Vaudevillian
Chapter 6. A Guy Could Get Used to This
Chapter 7. Love and the Fourth Marx Brother
Chapter 8. Not the Brightest Light on Broadway
Chapter 9. Wall Street Lays an Egg
Chapter 10. Hooray for Hollywood
Chapter 11. The Great Race
Chapter 12. How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying
Chapter 13. Opportunity Knocks
Chapter 14. What Makes Herbie Run?
Chapter 15. Enter Miss Stanwyck
Chapter 16. This Thing of Ours
Chapter 17. Whose Clamp Is It Anyway?
Chapter 18. Trouble in Paradise
Chapter 19. Boys Will Be Boys
Chapter 20. The Other Marx Brothers
Chapter 21. Barbara Moves In
Chapter 22. The Second Time Around
Chapter 23. With Friends Like These
Chapter 24. The Night We Called It -a Day
Chapter 25. The Lion in Winter
Chapter 26. It Was a Very Bad Year
Zepilogue
Appendix I. Zeppo Marx on Stage
Appendix II. Zeppo Marx on Film, Radio, and Television
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index