The Wonderful Straight Man Zeppo Marx
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Herbert Manfred "Zeppo" Marx (February 25, 1901 - November 30, 1979) was an American actor, comedian, theatrical agent, and engineer. He was the youngest of the five Marx Brothers. He appeared in the first five Marx Brothers feature films, from 1929 to 1933, but then left the act to start his second career as an engineer and theatrical agent.
Zeppo only appeared in five films and never cracked a joke on screen but when he left the act in 1933, The Marx Brothers were reduced the three and continued on for eight more films.
This is my tribute to Zeppo who sometimes struggled to remain in the frame.
Edited by Paul Hagl.
Footage is owned by Universal Pictures.
It's a whole other layer of comedy when you realize that Zeppo is actually playing a parody of that 1920s/30s romantic lead stereotype. He's the only Marx brother that does that and what makes it even more fascinating is when he is in the mix with the others only he is allowed to turn the joke back on them (Take a Letter for example.) He stands in as the audience surrogate to the chaotic wildness of the trio.
Thank you for making this video. Zeppo Marx doesn't get nearly enough respect and appreciation. He is absolutely wonderful in "Monkey Business" and "Horsefeathers". One thing many people don't know is after he stopped appearing on film with his brothers, Zeppo became their manager and was quite a shrewd businessman. Again, thank you for this video and for including my favorite gag from Monkey Business ("Mary, I'll never leave you...").
neither did Rodney Dangerfield..
@@caroltenge5147 I "got" the joke. LOL. Thanks for the laugh.
After Zeppo was divorced twice, he continued to smoke cigarettes until his death in 1979.
The Marx Brothers films were never the same once Zeppo was gone.
While Zeppo performed as the straight man in most of the films he was in, he himself was the most comical of the Marx Brothers offstage according to Groucho, I think that they should have given Zeppo more of a chance to do bits in his films
During their Broadway years, Groucho had to undergo an emergency appendectomy. While he was out, Zeppo played Groucho's part -- and few in the audience could spot the difference.
Have you noticed that Zeppo was tall?
@@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635 I noticed. Read that Chico was only 5'6. Harpo was similar. Wonder how tall the others were?
@@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635 I KNOW. At 5'8" or so it's a wonder he never became a basketball player....
zeppo was never an equal partner in the act itself
I watch this video all the time, Zeppo is fantastic!
I think you probably made history. As far as I know, nobody has ever featured Zeppo in any video, ever. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a video featuring Zeppo, and it’s probably the only one ever made. I enjoyed it.
Thanks, I try to do good topics that no one else touches.
i love zeppos singing voice
I did see the interview with Groucho where he said that Zeppo was always the funniest of the brothers.He was the crooner & romantic lead in between,but he should've been involved in the comedy a lot more.
He also Zeppo could play any of their parts / characters
Unfortunately, Zeppo died in 1979 with Lung Cancer
Love the editing on this video. I'm glad Zep got his due. I always remember the story from Groucho on how Zeppo understudied for him on one stage show and was able to mimic him perfectly. Groucho even said Zep got more laughs than he did.
There's actually a moment in Monkey Business you didn't include, but that is my favorite of his. After he tries talking to Mary as a way to hide from the people chasing him, and she's very confused and doesn't play along, he then drops a handkerchief and asks if it's hers, trying to get her to engage for real. She kind of considers it silently, then drops hers, asks if it's his, and starts her own fake conversation with him as a way of answering yes. Cheesy, but cute, and probably the most business he had in any movie.
Phoenix - I find it interesting that suddenly...everyone in entertainment history is/was a “genius” after all. Suddenly George Harrison was a “genius”. Suddenly Larry Fine of the Three Stooges was a “genius” all along! Now...suddenly Zeppo was a “genius” too?
If EVERYONE is a genius...then NOBODY is a genius!
@@christopherp.hitchens3902 All right, cool. Can I see your custom patented washing machine? I mean, if you've got any spare patents lying around, I'll take it all back. Otherwise I'm entitled to my opinion as much as you're entitled to yours, even if yours suffer from the quite significant disadvantage of being wrong.
@@picklesthewise - Yeah, sure! Zeppo was such a talent that in their films, most people never had a clue he was a Marx at all. Invisible, irrelevant and hanging onto the coat-tails of his significantly more talented brothers. Margaret Dumont was 10 times more important than the invisible Marx brother!
Zeppo actually getting do something in Monkey Business is one of the three reasons it's my favorite Marx Brothers movie (and my favorite movie of all time).
The other two reasons are Thelma Todd.
zeppo: mary ill never leave u *gets up n runs away* LMAOO😂
Lol And there goes the youngest Marx.
This is a great addition to the Marx Brothers library of videos on YT. Thanks much!
Watching this on his birthday happy birthday Zep love you
This rocks! Still watching 👀 ❤
The handsome Marx brother
Sometimes in their stage performances of the future movies, Zeppo and Groucho would trade roles and Zeppo was said to do Groucho to perfection. Groucho and Harpo once also changed places and no one ever noticed.
Now just waiting for the Gummo video.
Gummo was the only Marx Brother who did not appear onscreen
Gummo and Manny…
This video is missing Zeppo's funniest moment; when he sings (croons) "no no" in the introduction to "He Always Gets His Man" in "Horse Feathers."
Zeppo Marx - the first rapper
Why was he called the funniest brother? He doesn’t look funny but handsome
@@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635 Zeppo was handsome head on but doesn't do a thing for me. He has an awful profile.
Plus "The House That Shadows Built."
The Ringo of the Marx Brothers
I would say he was more of the Stu Sutcliffe of the Marx Brothers...
@@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854 Groucho would say he was more like an old Buick.
Those who knew him say he was an exceptionally funny man. He wrote some of the gags for Harpo. In real life, while he was a very sharp thinker, he wasn't a particularly pleasant person. He could be bitter and somewhat manipulative. I do think his roles in the Paramount films make the films far more classic and enjoyable. Duck Soup and Monkey Business are the best, but he's a key player in I'll say she is!
It seems that Zeppo didn't get the respect he deserved while doing movies with his older brothers! Although he did get to shine in Monkey Business and Horse Feathers he still got gyped! In Monkey Business we don't get to see much of Zeppo's fight with Alky Briggs because they kept cutting over to Groucho's commentary or Chico and Harpo keeping score! In Horse Feathers Zeppo is in the background during the wedding scene at the end! So all in all I don't blame him for leaving the act.
I’m sorry it’s just I didn’t know Zeppo existed
I love this my cousin sent me here
If they were to do a tag team wrestling match between the 3 Stooges n the Marx Brothers it wouldn’t surprise me if Zeppo n Shemp got in on the fun either that or have them do the colored commentary during the match
I just now realized: The "chief" at the passport kiosk here in "Monkey Business" is the very same "Mr. Lee" from the Paramount promotional shortie from the same year (1931)!
Further proof that Groucho is so damn funny that he had to horde in on his little brother Zeppo’s time
Why THANKS !
He wasn't in on the group marriage that ended HORSE FEATHERS.
Why do you not think that's him being pushed out of the way by the other three?
@@johnnyelizabethtonThey were waiting for Zeppo to finish college first. 😊
On this day in 1901, a baby was born. He was given the name Herbert Manfred Marx. He later changed his name to Zeppo. It's Zeppo's 122nd birthday. 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊
Sadly left out the 'Hungadunga' (?) bit
I have seen all of them exept horse feathers those he’s in anyway Zeppo seemed okay
I'm researching him, and I’m having trouble with the materials… In my opinion, he was the important holder of connecting to the elder brothers and the film's story.
Anyway, I’m grad to see this picture!
See “Yes, Sir: The Legacy of Zeppo Marx," in _The Journal of Popular Culture_ , Vol. 37, Issue 1, 2003, pp. 15-27.
Zeppo and Gummo would unable to The Brothers 00:00
4:29 What the hell
Is it true they named a cigarette lighter after this guy?
I think you're thinking of ZIPPO lighters...
No they named him Zeppo after the zeppelins
I love the Marx Brothers BUT I knew that (with enough time) Zepo would be reinvented as the 4th “genius”. Much like the Beatles’ George Harrison, no amount of wish-thinking will ever make him an equal to the other three.
Here’s the key to all this: Ask yourself if the Marx Brothers would have existed without Zepo? Obviously “Yes”. Without Groucho, Chico and Harpo? Obviously “NO”.
so they have the internet in hell i see
huh hitchens
so i know that you were spewing a lot of
rubbish on earth way back then
but how on earth could some actually
believe that ringo was the better beatle
than georgie
@@AidanTheLoverBoyOhDwyer Tee hee! “Internet in hell”...I like that.
My name IS, indeed, Christopher P. Hitchens...and always has been. My friends joke that I should sue the Hitchens estate for stealing my name. Some have also cruelly suggested that Hitchens must’ve also stolen my wit since I clearly have none.
I agree that Ringo’s “talent” was dubious, his drumming having more the quality of someone falling down a flight of stairs.
Still, his usefulness might’ve been more a matter of being a likable intermediate between two colossal egos, keeping the band going LONG after most would’ve quit.
Ringo also never feigned a conspiracy against his music as did George. Ringo never postured this fantastically stupid “Spiritual Beatle” routine while living in opulence and plagiarizing other people’s music (yes, George did!). Even George’s other two compelling compositions continue to suffer rumors that Paul not only helped George with his usual clunky compositions, Paul actually rewrote these pieces for him!
Oh, and as for Zeppo? All part of this curious contemporary wave of finding that EVERYONE is suddenly a “genius”.
I now read that even Larry Fine of the 3 Stooges was himself a “genius”! And, if everyone’s a “genius” then NO ONE is a genius. Right, Genius?
Unfortunately, I am not even aware of silent footage of the Marx Brothers’ various stage shows / vaudeville acts, so today it is probably impossible to assess how funny Zeppo was off screen, if the main criteria with which he is compared with the other brothers is “funny”. But if he was as funny as Groucho said, there’s a real possibility that SOME of the gags some of the other brothers did in films, or even one or two of their character traits, may have originated with / as ideas from Zeppo. That isn’t to steal the thunder of the other three brothers who were of course the core of the comedy team on films, but certain subtle things Zeppo does as the “straight man” in these films, suggest that he had a lot on the ball, and as another commenter suggested, is quite possibly performing a very subtle parody of the traditional romantic ‘straight man’ lead, rather than just simply playing it. Comparing and contrasting him vs another lead in their movies (for example Allan Jones) is fascinating. But it helps to have some context of the typical behavior of these type of actors in these type of roles in films of this era, to really ‘get’ some of the references. In a couple of these scenes, Zeppo almost seems to be a Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd type character in the kind of things that befall him, and his reactions, while trying to win a girl.
@@andrewbarrett1537
forget about zeppo
i really wanna know more about gummo
@@andrewbarrett1537 - I think we are seeing things that simply are not there. Zeppo, in my opinion, is as wooden and self conscious as ever. Uncomfortable and terribly awkward in the presence of his considerably more talented brothers. He was younger and often teased by them. He had no schtick of his own, no character. It seems he had the ability to imitate his brothers perfectly (as when he took over for Groucho one night) but that’s not a career. Perhaps, this is the real reason he quit? He had no act!
I think that Zeppo's Singing Voice was dubbed after The Maurice Chevalier in Monkey Business.
Stop making stuff up.
@@johnnyelizabethton Thank You for your comment. I'm only saying what I hear. It appears, that, after Monkey Business, Zeppo's Voice was dubbed in The Singing. Even the documentaries have claimed this.
Personally I don't think the other three wanted zeppo in the group and only did it because of their mother. Jealousy comes in all sorts of ways. I feel sorry for him being eleven years younger than groucho must have been difficult at times. Saying that the marks brothers were in a lass of their own
i am sorry but i think that he was just in
films because he was the baby brother
also please do a video on gummo
There’s no videos on Gummo Marx so no hope
@@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635There was a large book I read about the Marx brothers, “ the Four , or Three Musketeers on Stage” - Gummo was with them a long time - in vaudeville ONLY - later in the 1910s, in some parts of Michigan for a few months ALL FIVE Marx Brothers were on stage - but Gummo soon quit and left the stage permanently, he didn’t see himself as a good actor. 😮
And to Jessica - I’ve been a Ted Healy fan since the early 1970s, not quite a Stooge fan.
haha
He should’ve gone into producing or writing. He clearly didn’t have the showmanship his brothers did. He’s not a leader whatsoever, may be that’s why his old lady took off with Sinatra?