Marx Bros

The Marx Brothers - Groucho, Chico, Harpo and sometimes Zeppo - spent over 2O years perfecting their comic timing in vaudeville routines and Broadway theatre revues before becoming one of cinema's most successful comedy teams. They made 13 films together between 1929 and 1949, including Duck Soup (19ЗЗ), A Night at the Opera (1935), and A Day at the Races (1937), and appeared separately in dozens of additional film and television roles. Groucho is immediately recognizable with his big cigar, bushy eyebrows, greasepaint moustache and stooped walk.

He would impersonate authority figures in a way that lampooned their pomposity, whether as Captain Jeffrey T.Spaulding, Dr. Hugo Z.Hackenbush or Attorney J.Cheever Loophole, Brother Zeppo played the straight man to wisecracking Groucho, taking a relentless ribbing. Groucho once said, "The only surefire way to test out a new gag was to try it out on Zeppo.