Marx Brothers Encyclopedia

by Glenn Mitchell

Book Overview

From their abandoned projects to how the brothers dealt with potential competitors, such as Buster Keaton, a wealth of information on lives and careers of all the brothers is organized in this A-to-Z... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713478381
• ISBN13: 9780713478389
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: B.T. Batsford
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

The Best Book on The Marx Brothers I've Ever Seen

This is the most detailed book on the Marx Brothers I've ever seen.I highly recommend it.Every single movie they ever made,together and alone,is so fully detailed.Plus every actor and actress the brothers ever worked with(including the legendary Margeret Dumont of course)is also fully reviewed. This book is a must for any Marx fan!

Everything but the kitchen sink is included in this book....

Actually, I think I saw the sink somewhere in the book too! ;) It's everything you could possibly want to know about the Marxes. I like the A to Z format, it's very easy to navigate your way through the book. I use it all the time for reference. A well-researched, well-written book. Get this one.

While we wait for the dvd's...Bob

Wonderful book full of trivia for even the most expert Marx fanatic. Revised edition is well worth the investment for info such as the butchering of "Night at the Opera"...which is the film with the stateroom scene asked about previously.

A fantastic Refrence book

This was a wonderful book, I liked it so much I even read it. First of all it is wonderfully organized. The A-Z system works very well. Second it has alot of interesting infomation andd little known facts. Anyone who wants to know about (or knows about!) the Marx Brothers will love this book!

This is a Marx Brothers Convention in a book!

A well-crafted collection of photos, facts and tall tales about the comedy team. One of the top books ever on the subject, this volume suffers only in a few areas: 1) It is in encyclopedic A-Z order, but there is no index, per se. 2) It does offer dozens of photos, some very rare, of all stages of the careers of each, but does not have a specific bio on each individual brother. 3) It suffers somewhat from the editorial bias of the author, who includes subject headings you may not really care about, such as "shoes." (?) Other than those minuses, though, it is a really great book, filled with lots of interesting facts and memories. It is like having a Marx Brothers convention in a book!