# The Marx Bros.--Paramount vs. MGM

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marx-bros-paramount-vs-mgm/244345>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 9, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marx-bros-paramount-vs-mgm/244345 "2004-05-09T21:37:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Clark\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@Clark\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_K)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marx-bros-paramount-vs-mgm/244345/61 "2004-05-19T04:44:56Z")

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> [@Michael Ellis](#):
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> If I ever become an author I may try to write a biography of Zeppo. God knows what the title would be.

How 'bout _The Other Brother_?

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**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marx-bros-paramount-vs-mgm/244345/62 "2004-05-19T13:34:19Z")

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> [@Michael Ellis](#):
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> It’s not that I think _Duck Soup_ is bad, because it’s not. I just think the others are better. That is, i.e., to wit, in lieu of, and lacking anything else to use as an example: _Duck Soup_ is great, but the others are better than great.

🙂 Well said. And thanks for your list.

I now have to go to Amazon to see which of these films (beyond the new box set) are actually available on DVD.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marx-bros-paramount-vs-mgm/244345/63 "2004-06-04T18:10:26Z")

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> [@Clark K](#):
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> > [@Michael Ellis](#):
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> > If I ever become an author I may try to write a biography of Zeppo. God knows what the title would be.
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> How 'bout The Other Brother?

Not exactly Marx Brothers material. A pun on the Zippo Lighter Company would be more appropriate.

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**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marx-bros-paramount-vs-mgm/244345/64 "2004-06-04T20:27:22Z")

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how about _And Zeppo_ after all wasn’t that how he was billed?

Count me in for a huge Duck Soup Fan. I always hated the romance stories which just grate on my nerves.

My wife is slowly being a fan and is one of teh few people I know how braeks up laughing during a Chico piano piece. She plays and thinks his style and choice of music is just brilliantly funny.

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marx-bros-paramount-vs-mgm/244345/65 "2004-06-04T23:36:04Z")

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Joe Adamson’s wonderful book about the Marx movies is already titled Groucho, Harpo, Chico and sometimes Zeppo.\*

All Marxists should read it, if they’ve somehow missed it.  
\*Interestingly, my spell checker passed Groucho, Harpo and Chico, but stopped on Zeppo. Poor guy. At least he wasn’t Manfred.

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