The Groucho Marx Show: American Television Quiz Show - Door / Food Episodes
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Contestant teams usually consisted of one male and one female, most selected from the studio audience. More Groucho: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&tag=tra0c7-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=b5a9a56d226b935136eaa9cf963fea9b&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=dvd&keywords=groucho%20marx Occasionally, famous or otherwise interesting figures were invited to play (e.g., a Korean-American contestant who was a veteran and had been a prisoner of war during the Korean War). After his signature introduction of "Here he is: the one, the only..." by Fenneman and finished by a thunderous "GROUCHO!" from the audience, Marx would be introduced to the music of "Hooray for Captain Spaulding", his signature song. After which, Groucho would be introduced to the contestants and engage in humorous conversation for a lengthy period of time where Groucho both improvised his responses and employed prepared lines written by the show's writers using preshow interviews. Some show tension revolved around whether a contestant would say the "secret word", a common word revealed to the audience at the show's outset. If a contestant said the word, a toy duck resembling Groucho with a mustache and eyeglasses, and with a cigar in its bill, descended from the ceiling to bring a $100 bill. A cartoon of a duck with a cigar was also used in the opening title sequence. In one episode, Groucho's brother Harpo came down instead of the duck, and in another a model came down in a birdcage with the money. Marx sometimes slyly directed conversation to encourage the secret word to come up. The duck was also occasionally replaced with a wooden Indian figure. After the contestants' introduction and interview, the actual game began. Couples chose from a list of 20 available categories before the show, then tried to answer a series of questions within that category. From 1947--1956, couples were asked four questions. 1947--1953 -- Each couple began with $20, wagering part or all of their bankroll for each question. 1953--1954 -- Each couple now began with $0, but selected values from $10 to $100 (in $10 increments). A correct answer added the value of the question to their bankroll, while an incorrect answer did nothing. According to co-director Robert Dwan in his book As Long As They're Laughing, Guedel changed the scoring format because too many couples were betting, and losing, most or all of their money. 1954--1956 -- The format was slightly altered to start each couple with $100. Incorrect answers now cut their bankroll to that point in half. 1956--1959 -- Two couples (reduced from three) answered questions until they either gave two consecutive incorrect responses or answered four consecutive questions correctly for a prize of $1,000. 1959--1961 -- For the last two seasons, couples picked four questions worth $100, $200, or $300 each, potentially winning up to $1,200. Winning at least $500 qualified the team to go for the jackpot question. From 1947--1956, if the couple ended with $25 or less, Marx asked an elementary consolation question for a total of $25 (later $100) which did not count toward the scores. The questions were made easy in hopes that nobody would answer incorrectly, and included such examples as "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?", "When did the War of 1812 start?", "How long do you cook a three-minute egg?", and "What color is an orange?" The question about Grant's Tomb became such a staple of the show that both Marx and Fenneman were shocked when one man got the question "wrong" by answering "No one". As the contestant then pointed out, Grant's Tomb is an above ground mausoleum. In all formats, one of the two players on the team could keep their half of the winnings while the other risked their half. In this case, all amounts being played for were divided in half. 1947--1956 -- The highest-scoring couple was given one final question for the jackpot, which began at $1,000 and increased by $500 each week until won (reaching $6,000 at least once, in 1952). In the event of a tie, the tied couples wrote their answers on paper and all couples who answered correctly split the jackpot. 1956--1957 -- For a brief period following the format change, couples who won the front game could wager half on another question worth $2,000. 1957--1959 -- Winning couples now faced a wheel with numbers from 1--10, selecting one number for $10,000. If the number selected was spun, a correct answer to the jackpot question augmented the team's total winnings to that amount; otherwise, the question was worth a total of $2,000. 1959--1961 -- For the last two seasons, the format was slightly altered to eliminate the risk and add a second number for $5,000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Show
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I.love.the.classic.thanks
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Bi-racial girl...interesting act!
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They always have such interesting people on this show. Even today, they would stand out, although, not as much as back then.
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Thanks for posting - we haven't laughed so hard in years! Groucho is great. Also liked the animated DeSoto commercial.
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The Sheep Headed Girl-----The first White lady with an afro LOL
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The sheep headed girl and Al the Printer's Devil make this compilation outstanding. Thank you.
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Is it me, or there was some heavy innuendo-laden remarks by Groucho in this one?
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FI FI IS A LOU LOU
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Hey wasn't that guy in the audience with the moustache a contestant in one of the episodes of this show?
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the show is called You Bet Your Life and was on for 11 seasons, plus on radio before that
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Strange how young people looked so much older in those days. Was it because they had to work harder or had to take on more responsibility? Or is the human gene pool so watered-down nowadays that people are just not developing physically the way they used to? Perhaps we are evolving into something more impish? Or maybe it's all the chemicals in our food. Or maybe we're not smoking enough. Further study is needed on this issue. I'll look for some more episodes of You Bet Your Life. Thanks for these. Groucho rules!
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Hey, Jamie Lee -- know you know how you're gonna look in a few years!
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I went to P.S. 86 on 86 street in NYC, the same school Groucho went to 60 years earlier.
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Where are you originally from - heaven?
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31:39 Helen Schwartz Mother of Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis
AKA Bernard Schwartz
Born: 3-Jun-1925
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 29-Sep-2010
Location of death: Las Vegas, NV
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Palm Mortuary & Cemetery, Las Vegas, NV
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual [1]
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Some Like It Hot
Military service: US Navy (WWII)
After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Tony Curtis took advantage of the GI Bill to study drama. He earned good reviews in an off-Broadway production of Golden Boy, and was almost immediately offered a contract with Universal Studios.
His first film was the 1949 noir classic Criss Cross with Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo, and his first leading role was The Prince Who Was a Thief with Piper Laurie. Classic films include Sweet Smell of Success with Lancaster again, The Defiant Ones with Sidney Poitier, Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe, and Spartacus with Kirk Douglas. Curtis played Albert DeSalvo in The Boston Strangler and Harry Houdini in Houdini with Janet Leigh (his first wife). On TV, he starred in The Persuaders with Roger Moore, and Vega$ with Robert Urich.
In 1970, he was arrested at Heathrow Airport with a small amount of marijuana, and in later years he snorted cocaine with his daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis. In subsequent decades he said he was clean and sober, and there were no further arrests. -
I'm so enjoying this ! good humor, awesome character not only with a host but also guest's and audience !
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So good so funny! Groucho was the best.
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So good!