Groucho Marx interview about working with Marilyn Monroe - November 8, 1963

[@hiltonian_1260]

There’s a story of Marilyn walking down the street in NYC with a friend (maybe Capote) and nobody notices her and he notices that. She says something like “I don’t have it turned on.” She subtly changes the way she walks and suddenly everyone is staring at her. She knew what she was doing.

[@chrisjeffries2322]

That person was Ralph Roberts, he was her masseur and played the part of the ambulance driver in The Misfits. Which was her last finished Film.

[@ATINKERER]

Yeah, I read about that too.

[@roncaruso931]

It wasn't Capote. It was a young, unknown Bert Rynolds.

[@otisspunkmeyer9339]

What a class act Groucho was

[@audiophileman7047]

If Groucho said it, I believe it. He was one of the sharpest knives in the drawer in the entertainment industry, a keen observer. 👍👍👍

[@mindjob]

Great story

[@moher66]

Watch the scene in Love Happy of which Groucho speaks. Once, so you can watch Marilyn walk, and a second time to watch Groucho watching her walk.

[@gerrydooley951]

well Groucho was a man of his time

[@texasmimi5566]

He certainly had much more to say about her in The Marx Bros. Scrapbook by Groucho Marx and Richard Anobile.

[@NicoLet-nicoleMletort]

Fascinating - thank you! I’ll have to look into the scrapbook you mentioned in your reply. Do you happen to know what year it was made? I don’t know what was said in it (I know Groucho Marx has been quoted as saying, about Marilyn,“It’s amazing! She’s Mae West, Theda Bara & Bo Peep all wrapped in one.) Possibly, because this interview was given by Groucho Marx the year after Marilyn’s death, he chose to be more discreet… 💕💋

[@TomSchoenke]

​@@NicoLet-nicoleMletort I have the book from Anobile, written around 1973-74, and Mr. Marx said she had great tits and he wanted to £U€|< her. Two of my favorites.

[@gregoryjgarcia3862]

@@NicoLet-nicoleMletort mid 70's hardback.

[@mdelaubergine8930]

Groucho was nobody's fool. There is the story of Marilyn and Ella Fitzgerald and how they became great friends. MM had a good heart.

[@Justin-tu4fk]

What men took advantage of Miss Monroe? Ask Not!

[@joeyjamison5772]

Ask any of the Kennedys.

[@phillipnoone8044]

She was a wonderful person

[@zainabmosul7707]

She mentioned her side of the stort in her own diery"my story marilyn monroe" chapter 17

[@jameshudson169]

sir, Love Happy was NOT a terrible picture! you take that back!!

[@clintsweetwater]

I think he was being facetious… :)

[@jameshudson169]

@@clintsweetwater i think it was one of the rare moments when he wasn't being facetious.

[@jerryryan5760]

Marylin was a nice girl :Yup❤

[@joeyjamison5772]

Ask any of the Kennedys.

[@johnp515]

@@joeyjamison5772I don’t think they particularly cared if she was “nice”. They liked that she was “Marilyn Monroe”

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

groucho was right. "love happy" (1949) was a disaster of a film. his scene with monroe was its only redeeming part.

[@gordonhall9871]

nothing bad to say about her ---

[@Justin-tu4fk]

Sinatra disinvited too services. Joe D. Loved her so!

[@anylawliet1473]

What's the name of the full version?

[@RichardTroiano]

Full version of what?

[@anylawliet1473]

@@RichardTroiano of the interview, or the program it was taken

[@joeyjamison5772]

She was a very nice girl. Just ask any of the Kennedys.

[@HansDelbruck53]

I'll ask Rose.

[@tomfields3682]

I asked RFK Jr. but he just said something about a worm in his head.k

[@Justin-tu4fk]

Say th secret werd divide a hunet dollars!

[@marvinsmith2116]

1963. I Wes 10. Wonder when the $100 plus $25 dollar day was. Dollar spent good then.

[@williamneumyer7147]

In 1950, I believe.

[@chrisjeffries2322]

@@williamneumyer7147 It was filmed in 1949

[@Wesley-eu7rn]

Average yearly salary in 1950 was about 3 thousand. $125 dollars went a long way.

[@williamneumyer7147]

@@Wesley-eu7rn When fiat "money" still seemed like money.

[@Wesley-eu7rn]

@@williamneumyer7147 We were on the gold standard until the 70s when Nixon took us off. Money back then was real money.

[@scubadiva666]

Marilyn had rickets as a child; that's why she walked the way she did.

[@johnp515]

Nonsense

[@jrnumex9286]

then to make sure, we had a sit down on the "weinstein couch" to listen to mariiyn read. she got the part for sure

[@GaryHall-y9v]

Never found the marx brothers funny. Probably my great grandfather did, I was a 50s child ,and I thought they alongside the 3 stooges , about as funny as watching paint dry. I can't see why anyone found them funny.

[@georgestevens1502]

So why bother to spend time here Mr Wet Blanket?

[@tomfields3682]

Theirs was a higher form of humor. Not everyone gets it

[@pierceaero3005]

George Walkers' actions killed Marilyn. George Walkers' actions killed John John. George Walkers' Acid Rain melts the face of the 🌞 dawn 🌞 like like the dudes in The Raiders of the Lost Ark. Got Acid? Solar flares were all you saw.

[@RichardTroiano]

Who the “heck” is George Walker??

[@pierceaero3005]

@@RichardTroiano NOBODY!

[@petehuckleberry5068]

Are ya nuts or sompin?

[@pierceaero3005]

@@petehuckleberry5068 George Walkers' kompromat is. He swallowed it.

[@michaelmurray258]

Who let Charles Manson onto KZbin again?!