Review by Choice Review
Valuable for any serious student of the Marx Brothers. The long, extensively footnoted biography of (primarily) Groucho, Chico, and Harpo, with comments on Gummo and Zeppo, contains few new nuggets on America's funniest family act, but it cross-indexes information from many sources to give ideas on the sources for some of their cinema gags from The Cocoanuts (1929) to Love Happy (1950) and personal commentary on the brothers and their families. Gehring includes a short essay on their unique comedy and some short magazine pieces by Gummo and Groucho. A bibliographical essay contains valuable extended commentary on books, shorter works, and archives and film sources on the Marx Brothers. A long checklist on sources plus valuable appendixes, filmographies, a discography, and index round out the text. Essential for any library supporting film research.-R. Blackwood, City Colleges of Chicago, Wilbur Wright College
Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
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