Groucho Marx quote

Groucho Marx said something in a film, and I’m trying to remember it.

[something] went out your front door and inuendo.

Howzit go?

“Love goes out the door when money comes innuendo”

Not sure of the movie–“Duck Soup”, I think.

That’s it! Thanks.

[hijack]

Definition of “inuendo:”

An Italian suppository. [end hijack]

Not Duck Soup, Monkey Business - the one with Thelma Todd where they start off as stoways. The context is that they need passports to get off the ship, and Groucho, disguised as a reporter, is involved with an intereview with a rich dowager. I have the script at home somewhere, but the context I believe is

Groucho: Is it true you bathe in clam broth. <something about marrying for money>

Dowager: That’s a vile innuendo.

Groucho. That’s right. Love goes out the door when money comes innuendo.

Clearly an SJ Perelman line, and my favorite Groucho pun, even better than “waxing Roth.”

In the rest of the scene Zeppo somehow steals Maurice Chevalier’s passport and they all try to sing one of his songs to convince the customs officers they’re him. Fails except for Harpo - until the phonograph he’s hiding under his coat winds down.

Ahem…

Groucho: Is it true you wash your hair in clam broth? Is it true you dance in a flea circus? Is it true you’re divorcing your husband once he gets his eyesight back?

Woman: I don’t like this Inneudo.

Groucho: That’s right. Love flies out the door as money comes innuendo.

The fact I can quote this off the top of my head probably explains a lot about my life.

Is Roth out there too? :smiley:

My memory is going - and I don’t have the time to watch these as often as I should. :frowning:

But I do have a CD of the radio version of Duck Soup, though.

ah fellow groucho fans.

I remember part of a quote, but the exact words fail me.

It went somewhere along the lines of "if you were half a man (something something) if you were a woman we could dance the night away…

poor memory and it has been 12 or 15 years since I remember seeing the quote.

The quote is part of a phone conversation with Groucho that Leo Rosten recalled having:

Thank you sternvogel me love you long time!