Gary Saderup Celebrity Charcoals
Size: 20"W x 24"H
Description:
Name: Groucho Marx
D.O.B: 2 October 1890
Died: 19 August 1977
Name: Chico Marx
D.O.B: 22 March 1887
Died: 11 October 1961
Name: Harpo Marx
D.O.B: 23 November 1888
Died: 28 September 1964
Name: Zeppo Marx
D.O.B: 25 February 1901
Died: 30 November 1979
Your favourite stars of yesterday and today dramatically captured with charcoal
on canvas-textured background.
About Groucho:
The bushy-browed, cigar-smoking, wisecraker with the painted on mustache and
stooped walk was the leader of the Marx Brothers. With one-liners that were many
times full of sexual innuendo, Groucho never used profanity in any of his
performances, and said he never wanted to be known as a dirty comic. With a
great love of music and singing, (the Marx Brothers started as a singing group),
one of the things Groucho was best known for was his rendition of the song
"Lydia the Tattooed Lady".
About Chico:
As a kid trying to negotiate his way through various gang territories to a
floating crap game or a new pool hall where he was not yet known as a hustler,
Leonard (Chico) Marx learned to fake several accents. Because he later employed
an Italian accent in the Marx Brothers' act, people assumed his name was
pronounced "Cheeko." Instead, Leonard was dubbed "Chicko" for his other
consuming passion, women (or "chicks"), at which he was more successful than
gambling, but when a typesetter dropped the "k" out of his name, the brothers
let it stay as Chico. Chico was the brother who guided the Marxes to stardom. He
took over the act's management (amicably) from their mother, Minnie, and through
audacity and charm, Chico secured the Brothers their first international
(London) booking, their first Broadway show and their MGM contract with Irving
Thalberg, among other successes.
About Harpo:
With the big, poofy, curly red hair, a top hat, and a horn, the lovable mute was
the favorite of the Marx Brothers. Though chasing woman was a favorite routine
of his in the movies, Harpo was a devoted father and husband. He adopted the
mute routine in vaudeville and carried it over to the films. Harpo was an
accomplished self-taught harpist who's musical numbers would many times bring
tears to the eyes of the audience of an otherwise hilarious movie.
About Zeppo:
The youngest of the Marx Brothers, Zeppo was put into the role of the straight
man after his brother Gummo left the act. Zeppo also acted as an understudy to
all three of his brothers, and he has been said to have played Grouchos part
better than Groucho himself! After playing small parts in the first five Marx
Brothers movies, Zeppo felt his talent wasn't being used to its full extent and
left the act to join Gummo as an agent. Somewhat of a mechanical whiz, Zeppo
invented a wristwatch that would monitor the pulse rate of cardiac patients, and
his company, Marman Products, produced clamping devices which were used in the
first atomic bomb raids over Japan in 1945. Zeppo died on November 30th, 1979
from cancer.
