The Groucho Letters

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Groucho Marx donated his famous correspondence to the Library of Congress in the mid-1960s. From his letters a colorful collection was published. Now in paperback, The Groucho Letters displays the wit and wisdom of one of the twentieth century's most beloved comedians. Groucho's letters pertain not only to show biz, but to politics, law, business and his personal life. He spars with his friends, and their responses are equally amusing: letters from E. B. White, Fred Allen, Goodman Ace, Nunnally Johnson, James Thurber, Booth Tarkington, Alistair Cooke, Harry Truman, and S. J. Perelman, to name a few.
In one of his first letters in his legendary correspondence and friendship with T. S. Eliot, Groucho writes:
Dear T.S.:
Your photograph arrived in good shape and I hope this note of thanks finds you in the same condition.
I had no idea you were so handsome. Why you haven't been offered the lead in some sexy movies I can only attribute to the stupidity ofthe casting directors.
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Groucho Marx donated his famous correspondence to the Library of Congress in the mid-1960s. From his letters a colorful collection was published. Now in paperback, The Groucho Letters displays the wit and wisdom of one of the twentieth century's most beloved comedians. Groucho's letters pertain not only to show biz, but to politics, law, business and his personal life. He spars with his friends, and their responses are equally amusing: letters from E. B. White, Fred Allen, Goodman Ace, Nunnally Johnson, James Thurber, Booth Tarkington, Alistair Cooke, Harry Truman, and S. J. Perelman, to name a few.
In one of his first letters in his legendary correspondence and friendship with T. S. Eliot, Groucho writes:
Dear T.S.:
Your photograph arrived in good shape and I hope this note of thanks finds you in the same condition.
I had no idea you were so handsome. Why you haven't been offered the lead in some sexy movies I can only attribute to the stupidity ofthe casting directors.
This incomparable collection of letters will entertain anyone who appreciates fine wit and likes a good laugh.
"It is hard to keep from reading bits of this aloud to friends and relations. Groucho in letters is just as devastatingly witty as he was in the movies, to say nothing of other media."
—Publishers Weekly
these letters are good reading, for out of the book Groucho emerges, eyebrows bounding, eyes rolling, cigar jauntily clamped between his teeth, the wisecracks coming a mile a minute. Even Calvin Coolidge might have smiled."
—Book Week Vissza