Groucho Marx
Comedian great Groucho Marx takes questions at London press conference in 1964. Introduced by Jo Joseph.
The great American comedian Groucho Marx replies to questions about himself and his career, put to him by at a press conference in London in August, 1964.
Edited and introduced by Jo Joseph:
"Being in a room with Groucho Marx is like coming face to face with twenty years of American Vaudeville. The greatness of Groucho is that in his small frame is combined some of the essence of his contemporaries: the gentleness of Eddie Cantor, the belligerence of Jimmy Durante, the dead pan of Jack Benny and George Burns and the simpatica of Charlie Chaplin."
Groucho's replies to questions showed he was "still king of the ad-lib, master of the spontaneous laugh line..."
Producer: Rayner Heppenstall
First broadcast on BBC Home Service in August 1964.
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