Fifty Before '50: DUCK SOUP
by JBThis is a gala day for us. Stay tuned to the end of the column for exciting, time sensitive news. Groucho once said, in the invaluable and long out-of-print* The Marx Bros. Scrapbook, that Duck Soup was the only time the Marx brothers ever got to work with a truly talented director. Leo McCarey was a master director who had started in the silents, directing Laurel and Hardy (frequent L & H co-star Edgar Kennedy makes an appearance here as an angry lemonade vendor) and would go on to direct the Oscar-winning Going My Way with Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald.THE PLOT IN BRIEF: The…
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