Tag: Marx Brothers

Salvador Dalí on Harpo Marx

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“I met Harpo for the first time in his garden. He was naked, crowned with roses, and in the center of a veritable forest of harps (he was surrounded by at least five hundred harps). He was caressing, like a new Leda, a dazzling white swan, and feeding it a statue of the Venus de [...]

The Peak of American Cinema? Leo McCarey’s Duck Soup (1933)

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I’ve been thinking a lot about director Leo McCarey lately and, in particular, how so many of his movies — from the 1928 Laurel and Hardy short Two Tars (which he supervised) through 1958′s Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! (just released on DVD) — culminate in anarchy. He is easily one of the most subversive [...]