GROUCHO MARX

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GROUCHO MARX
A single-breasted tailcoat of charcoal grey wool trimmed with black braid and lined in black 'silk', with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer woven label inscribed with production number and artist's name Groucho Marx stitched to lining, (inscription faded and blurred), artist's name additionally inscribed on sleeve lining - worn by Groucho Marx as Otis B. Driftwood in the 1935 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, A Night At The Opera. (2)

拍品专文

Sold in these rooms on 27th April, 1989. The artist's name and production number 859-35 were distinct and legible at this time and are now blurred and indistinct due to subsequent dry-cleaning.

A Night At The Opera was greeted with waves of applause and roars of laughter deafening to the ear..Critics now recalled [The Marx Brothers'] old movies with a misty-eyed fondness and referred to them as venerable past masters of comedy, rather than those young whippersnappers who throw things. The movie was hailed as a beautiful desecration of civilization's most claustrophobic art form, a great satire on opera movies, and one of the funniest comedies ever made. It was considered to be the greatest Marx Brothers picture of all time by almost everybody, including the Marx Brothers.. (See Joe Adamson Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo: A Celebration of the Marx Brothers Simon & Schuster, Touchstone Books, 1973, pp. 299-300).