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GROUCHO MARX SALUTE
August 14, 2015  | By David Bianculli  | 1 comment

TCM, 6:00 a.m. ET

 
Lots of laughs, all day and all night: Today on TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars,” it’s a salute to the great Groucho Marx. It includes some solo projects, which are televised very early and very late in this 24-hour salute, but the tastiest meat in this meal comes when Groucho is teamed with the rest of his irrepressible siblings, The Marx Brothers. For them, the action begins at 9:30 a.m. ET with 1938’s fast-paced Room Service, which also stars Lucille Ball (seen here with Groucho) and Ann Miller. And by mid-afternoon, it’s one comedy classic after another, shown in sequential order: 1929’s The Cocoanuts (4:30 p.m. ET), 1930’s Animal Crackers (6:15 p.m. ET), 1931’s Monkey Business (8 p.m. ET), 1932’s Horse Feathers (9:30 p.m. ET), and topped by three wonderful films, 1933’s Duck Soup (10:45 p.m. ET), 1935’s A Night at the Opera (midnight ET), and 1937’s A Day At the Races (2 a.m. ET). On TV, or anywhere else, you won’t clock more LPMs than this.
 
 
 
 
 
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Mark Isenberg
Must viewing is the 330pm Dick Cavett show repeat interview in which he sings Lydia the Tatooed Lady. Why 330pm? TCM is not known for best timing but tape this if you can.
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