Full name: Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of The Marx Brothers

Author: Simon Louvish Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312252922 9780571193509 0312252927 0571193501

Strange but true: this is the first authentic account of the Marx Brothers, their origins and of the roots of their comedy. First and foremost, this is the saga of a family whose theatrical roots stretch back to mid-19th century Germany. From Groucho Marx's first warblings with the singing Leroy Trio, this book brings to life the vanished world of America's wild and boisterous variety circuits, leading to the Marx Brothers' Broadway successes, and their alliance with New York's theatrical lions, George S. Kaufman and the 'Algonquin Round Table'. Never-before-published scripts, well-minted Marxian dialogue, and much madness and mayham feature in this tale of the Brothers' battles with Hollywood, their films, their loves and marriages, and the story of the forgotten brother Gummo. Similar books: Stan and Ollie by Simon Louvish Groucho, Harpo, Chico and sometimes Zeppo by Joe Adamson Hello, I Must Be Going by Charlotte Chandler My Life with Groucho by Arthur Marx Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow Chaplin by David Robinson Showman by David Thomson Ladies and gentlemen: Lenny Bruce!! by Albert Goldman Growing Up With Chico by Maxine Marx Miss Tallulah Bankhead by Lee Israel Nightmare of Ecstasy by Rudolph Grey Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride Woody Allen by Eric Lax Peter Cook by Harry Thompson The Duck Commander Family by Willie Robertson To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle by Michael J. Mooney The Women of Duck Commander by Kay Robertson Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd A Lion's Tale by Chris Jericho