The Marx Brothers



The Marx Brothers
The Story of Mankind (1957)



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This is the last movie in which all three appeared, though not in the same scene.


Cast:

Ronald Colman   The Spirit of Man
Vincent Price   The Devil
Sir Cedric Hardwicke   High Judge
Hedy Lamarr   Joan of Arc
Groucho Marx   Peter Minuit
Harpo Marx   Isaac Newton
Chico Marx   Monk
Virginia Mayo   Cleopatra
Agnes Moorehead   Queen Elizabeth
Peter Lorre   Nero
Charles Coburn   Hippocrates
Cesar Romero   Spanish envoy
John Carradine   Khufu
Dennis Hopper   Napoleon
Marie Wilson   Marie Antoniette
Helmut Dantine   Mark Antony
Reginald Gardiner   Shakespeare
Marie Windsor   Josephine
George E. Stone   Waiter
Cathy O'Donnell   Early Christian woman
Melinda Marx   Early Christian child
Melville Cooper   Majordomo
Henry Daniell   Bishop of Beauvais
Francis X. Bushman   Moses
Jim Ameche   Alexander Graham Bell
Bobby Watson   Adolf Hitler
Anthony Dexter   Columbus
Bart Mattson   Cleopatra's brother
Dani Crayne   Helen of Troy
Eden Hartford   Laughing Water
Franklin Pangborn   Marquis de Varennes
Nick Cravat   Apprentice
Ziva Rodann   Concubine
Austin Greene   Abraham Lincoln
Harry Ruby   Indian Brave
Reginald Schallert   Julius Caesar
Abraham Sofaer   Indian chief
Marvin Miller   Armana
Tudir Owen   Court clerk


Director    Irwin Allen
Written by    Irwin Allen
    Charles Bennett
    Hendrik Willem vam Loon (book)
Cinematography    Nicholas Musuraca
Art director    Art Loel
Supervising film editor    Roland Gross
Editor    Gene Palmer
Music    Paul Satwell
Sound recordists    Stanley Jones
Associate producer    George E. Swink
Producer    Irwin Allen
Production company / Distribution    Cambridge / Warner Brothers
TechniColor   
Runtime    100 min.
Release date    08 Nov 1957
Spanish title    La Historia De La Humanidad


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