Marx Brothers Marathon Today On TCM

TCM is having a Marx Brothers marathon today. The two movies that Thelma Todd made with them, MONKEY BUSINESS and HORSE FEATHERS, will be run with the rest of the Marx Brothers' movies.



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Marx Brothers on TV & Radio

Times given are local time. 24 hour format is used.

14 Aug 2015	05:59	TCM	TCM "Summer under the Stars" series	A whole day dedicated to the Groucho and the Marx Brothers
14 Aug 2015	06:00	TCM	Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937)	A short film featuring Groucho
14 Aug 2015	06:30	TCM	Double Dynamite	Movie featuring Groucho
14 Aug 2015	08:00	TCM	A Girl In Every Port	Movie featuring Groucho
14 Aug 2015	09:30	TCM	Room Service
14 Aug 2015	11:00	TCM	At The Circus
14 Aug 2015	12:30	TCM	Go West
14 Aug 2015	14:00	TCM	The Big Store
14 Aug 2015	15:30	TCM	The Dick Cavett Show: Groucho Marx	Interview with Groucho from 1969
14 Aug 2015	16:30	TCM	The Cocoanuts
14 Aug 2015	18:15	TCM	Animal Crackers
14 Aug 2015	20:00	TCM	Monkey Business
14 Aug 2015	21:30	TCM	Horse Feathers
14 Aug 2015	22:45	TCM	Duck Soup
15 Aug 2015	00:00	TCM	A Night At The Opera
15 Aug 2015	02:00	TCM	A Day At the Races
15 Aug 2015	04:00	TCM	The Story of Mankind	features Chico, Groucho and Harpo, but they never appear in a scene together

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MONKEY BUSINESS:
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/290225%7C86548/Monkey-Business.html


HORSEFEATHERS:
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1054507%7C0/Marx-Brothers-Marathon-1-1.html



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Ad For "Laff Week"

From the Laurel And Hardy Archive on facebook.


Newspaper advertisement from the WEST COAST THEATER in San Bernadino/California
December 1931

That would be Thelma Todd with the Marx Brothers in the picture from MONKEY BUSINESS, although they don't mention her by name.


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Marx Brothers Contract

This contract was being offered for sale by RR Auctions, as mentioned in the "Marx Brothers Council of Facebook". It has to do with the movies they made with Thelma Todd, MONKEY BUSINESS and HORSE FEATHERS.

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DS, signed by all four brothers using their full legal signatures, three pages of a four page document, 8.5 x 11, April 6, 1962. Agreement between Groucho, Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo and Paramount Pictures concerning the release of the estate of Chico Marx from a 1930 contract involving the Marx Brothers and re-releases of Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, as well as a cash payout of a total of $38,500.00 divided between the brothers, Chico’s two wives, and a law firm. Signed on the last two pages, “Julius H. (Groucho) Marx,” “Arthur Harpo Marx,” “Herbert Zeppo Marx,” “Mary DiVitha Marx,” “Betty Marx,” and “Gummo Marx.” Second page missing, mild toning, expected document wear, and uniform fading to typed text, otherwise fine condition. Horse Feathers, in which the brothers satirized the American College system and Prohibition, was one of their most popular films, and landed the brothers on the cover of Time magazine. Chico Marx, the oldest of the five, had passed away on October 11, 1961, last appearing with the Marx Brothers in the 1950 film Love Happy.

 

 

 

 

Michael Hayde If nothing else, this proves Maxine Marx was correct that the

Brothers' Paramount contract (at least this two-picture one) was a participation deal. And I suspect this settlement had little to do with Paramount's original creative accounting, but rather was to legally clear the decks because the films were being (or had been) sold to MCA period.








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Thelma Todd Movie Posters

Some Thelma Todd movie posters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Alison Loyd

"Alison Loyd" was a stage name Thelma Todd used in the movie CORSAIR, which was made in 1931.

 It wasn't a hit, so she went back to being Thelma Todd again.

Caption from the back of this picture:

But occasionally, you still run across publicity pictures with the name "Alison Loyd" on them.

This one identifies Alison Loyd as Thelma Todd on the back. It also mentions that she's in MONKEY BUSINESS with the Marx Brothers, so they may have been using it to advertise that movie.

With costar Chester Morris, and named only on the back.

Some of these have one name or the other crossed out.

An older photo where they added the new name 

 and later crossed it out and replaced it with the old one.

This one has first one name and then the other crossed out. They evidently had some uncertainty as to which name to use.

Another picture in the same series recieved the same treatment.

Again the first one name crossed out, and then the other.

 This "Alison Loyd" picture appeared in HEBDO in June 1932.

In 1933, this calendar had the same picture of Thelma Todd on it labeled "Alison Loyd".

The name appears at the bottom left of this picture.

 

An enlargement of the place with the name "Alison Loyd" on it.

A couple of years had passed since CORSAIR had been released, so it's unusual to see the name appearing on anything at this time.

But the name would be used for Thelma Todd again.

At Thelma Todd's funeral there were some flowers with the name "Alison" on a ribbon. They were from Roland West. The guy who was responsible for the name change in the first place. It was like he was still insisting that it was a good idea, that he was right, and that it was everybody else who was wrong.

Roland West was like that.

"Alison Loyd" newspaper article:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IP1IAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hAINAAAAIBAJ&pg=2851,1623134&dq=thelma-todd&hl=en 

CORSAIR Promotion:

http://www.nyu.edu/projects/wke/press/corsair/corsair.pdf

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