The Marx Brothers Play & Sing is a three-disc box set of musical numbers from Coconuts, Horse Feathers, Monkey Business, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, At the Circus, Room Service, Go West, and The Big Store. While the Marx Brothers are best known for their work in film, the trio and quartet can also be enjoyed on a number of recordings. After 1933, Zeppo left the team, and the Marx Brothers moved to Warner Brothers, where they made A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races.
Chico, Harpo, Groucho, and Zeppo then made three more films for Paramount, Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), and their most critically regarded film, Duck Soup (1933). The latter two revues would become the brothers' first two movies in 19.
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From that point, the Marx family evolved into a comedy act, eventually comprised of Chico, Harpo, Groucho, and Zeppo.ĭuring the 1920s, the Marx Brothers rose to fame in series of Broadway musical revues including I'll Say She Is, The Coconuts, and Animal Crackers. Instead of becoming angry, however, the audience laughed.
While performing in Texas in 1912, Groucho, who had become irritated at the audience's inattention, made snide remarks. In 1910 three of the brothers along with Mabel O'Donnell, Minnie Marx, and an aunt formed a singing troupe, the Six Mascots. Harpo, naturally, played the harp, Groucho the guitar, and Chico the piano. Leonard Marx was born on March 22, 1887, and later adopted Chico as his stage name Adolph Marx (later Arthur) was born on November 23, 1888, and adopted the stage name Harpo Julius Henry Marx was born on October 2, 1890, and used Groucho as his stage name Milton Marx was born on October 23, 1892, and adapted the alias Gummo and Herbert Marx, born on February 25, 1901, would be known as Zeppo.įrom an early age, the brothers were encouraged to express their artistic side. The Marx Brothers were the sons of Jewish immigrants from Germany, and all were born in New York City to Simon Marrix (later changed to Marx) and Minnie Schonberg.
From their beginnings in vaudeville during the 1910s, to their rise as popular film comics during the Depression, Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, and Zeppo Marx delivered an energetic, anarchic comedy that seemed to overflow both the stage and the screen. Movies like The Coconuts (1929) and A Night at the Opera (1935) remain popular, and both Groucho Marx's wisecracking persona and Harpo Marx's silent, woman-crazed clown remain well-known icons. On-stage and in film, the Marx Brothers' antic comedy won millions of fans and left a major pop cultural legacy.
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