Marx Brothers
Godfathers of screwball comedy
"The surprising thing about this film was that I succeeded in not going crazy," said director Leo McCarey about working with the manic Marx Brothers on Duck Soup. The madcap antics of Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and (sometimes) Zeppo have driven audiences wild with laughter in such unforgettable films as A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races. Whether it's wise-cracking Groucho with his big cigar and bushy eyebrows, street-smart Chico with his fake Italian accent, or skirt-chasing Harpo honking his horn, the Marx Brothers' inimitable and irrepressible humor continues to inspire us today.
The Movie Icon series: People talk about Hollywood glamour, about studios that had more stars than there are in heaven, about actors who weren't actors but were icons. Other people talk about these things, TASCHEN shows you. Movie Icons is a series of photo books that feature the most famous personalities in the history of cinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. For each title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selected approximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images are accompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; each book also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and is peppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life.
About the Series:
More bang for your buck! "... a fast-food, high-energy fix on the topic at hand." The New York Times Book Review
About the author:
Douglas Keesey is a professor of film and literature at Cal Poly. He is the author of TASCHEN's Erotic Cinema and Paul Verhoeven.
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Marx Brothers
Duncan, Paul (Editor)
Keesey, Douglas Flexicover, 14 x 19.5 cm (5.5 x 7.7 in.), 192 pages $ 9.99 |
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"Movie ICONS ist eine Serie von Bildbänden, die die berühmtesten Akteure in der Geschichte des Kinos präsentieren; jeder einzelne umfasst 192 Seiten und ist eine visuelle Biografie. Herausgeber Paul Duncan hat hochwertige Bilder und Porträts sorgfältig ausgewählt und mit unveröffentlichten Schnappschüssen ergänzt, auf denen die Stars so zu sehen sind, wie sie wirklich waren."
Seitenblicke, Wien, Austria
Seitenblicke, Wien, Austria
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Ingrid Bergman Pure sophistication |
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Humphrey Bogart Here’s looking at you, kid |