The Marx Brothers

The Marx Brothers
Bibliography

Scripts of plays, movies & radio shows

(Script): Horse Feathers
- Darien House, New York, NY

(Script): Monkey Business / Duck Soup
"... the versions presented here were built up from a dialogue continuity provided by Universal City Film Studios Inc., amplified with material gained from a shot-by-shot viewing of each film." (Editorial note)
- Lorrimer Publishing, Godalming, UK, 1972, ISBN: 0 900855 65 7 / (paperback) / Click on flag to order from amazon:
- Lorrimer Publishing, 1972, ISBN: 0 900855 66 5 / Click on flag to order from amazon:
- Simon and Schuster / Classical Film Scripts, New York, NY, 1972, ISBN: 0 671 21273 7 / Click on flag to order from amazon:
- Ungar Publ. Co., 1982, ISBN: 0 8044 6475 8 / Click on flag to order from amazon:
- (espagñol) Editorial Fundamentos, Madrid, Spain, 1982, 1989, ISBN: 84 245 0182 9
titled: Sopa de Gansos/Naderias, translated by: Rodolfo Kuhn
- Faber & Faber, 1989, ISBN: 0 571 12604 9 / Click on flag to order from amazon:

(Script): Una noche en la Opera / Los hermanos Marx en el Oeste (A Night at the Opera / Go West)
Translation by Augusto M. Torres and Marisa Cortazo
- (espagñol) Editorial Fundamentos, Madrid, Spain, 1982, ISBN: 84 245 0335 X
- (espagñol) Fundamentos, Madrid, Spain, 1982

(Script): Tienda de locos / El hotel de los líos (The Big Store / Room Service)
Translation by Augusto M. Torres and Marisa Cortazo.
- (espagñol) Editorial Fundamentos, Madrid, Spain, 1982, ISBN: 84 245 0354 6

(Script): Monkey Business, Duck Soup, A Day at the Races
"[MB and DS] [...] were built up from a dialogue continuity [...] amplified with material gained from a shot-by-shot viewing of each film." "[ADATR] combines the script with the dialogue and the action in the film itself." (Publisher's note) This script of ADATR differs from the earlier Viking edition in the way that it only has the actual movie dialogue.
- Faber & Faber, London, UK, 1993, ISBN: 0 571 16647 4 / Click on flag to order from amazon:

Barson, Michael (ed.): Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel: The Marx Brothers' Lost Radio Show
Many gags of the films were used in or taken from this Radio Shows performed by Groucho and Chico. "Along with the other scripts, its a fun to look over, and neat to see what stayed the same and what changed" (teej)
- Book Club Edition
- "Special Advance Sampler" (excerpts) / distributed at a bookseller's convention
- Pantheon Books, New York, NY, 1988, ISBN: 0 679 72036 7 / Click on flag to order from amazon:
- Chatto & Windus, London, UK, 1989
- (français) Presses de la Renaissance, Paris, France, 1989, ISBN: 2 85616 522 2
   titled: Reniflard and Co, translated by: Françoise Brodsky
- (catalan) Columna Edicions, Llibres i Comunicació, Barcelona, Spain, 1989, ISBN: 84 7809 064 9
   titled: Groucho i Chico, advocats, translated by: Màrius Serra
- (italiano) Bompiani, Milano, Italy, 1989
   titled: Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel. Legali da legare
- (catalan) Círculo de Lectores, S.A., Barcelona, Spain, 1989, ISBN: 84 226 2956 9
   titled: Groucho i Chico, advocats, translated by: Màrius Serra
- (deutsch) Rogner & Bernhard, München, Germany, 1989 (hardcover), ISBN: 3 8077 0241 5
   titled: Die Marx Brothers Radio Show, translated by: Sven Böttcher, Harry Rowohlt
- (dansk) Centrum, Denmark, 1989, 1990, ISBN: 87 583 0564 5
   titled: Advokatfirmaet Phiis, Phup & Phidus, translated by: Jesper Klein / Introduction by: Dan Turèll
- (espagñol) Tusquets Editores, Barcelona, Spain, 1989, 1992, ISBN: 84 7223 108 9
   titled: Groucho y Chico, abogados, translated by: Olivia de Miguel, Jacobo Guitián
- (svenska) Norstedts, Stockholm, Sweden, 1989, 1994 (hardcover)
   titled: Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel. Bröderna Marx' försvunna radioserie, translated by: Bengt Sahlström
- (espagñol) Círculo de Lectores, S.A., Barcelona, Spain, 1990, ISBN: 84 226 3081 8
   titled: Groucho & Chico, abogados, translated by: Olivia de Miguel, Jacobo Guitián
- (espagñol) Tusquets Editores, Barcelona, Spain, 1999, ISBN: 84 8310 639 6
   titled: Groucho & chico abogados : Flywheel, Shyster y Flywheel. El serial radiofónico perdido de los hermanos Marx, translated by: Olivia de Miguel
- excerpts in: "The Essential Groucho", 2000
- (italiano) Bompiani, Milano, Italy, 2002, ISBN: 88 4525308 2
   titled: Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel. Legali da legare

Kalmar, Bert; Ruby, Harry: The Kalmar-Ruby Songbook With Reasonably Accurate Dissertations by Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley.....
The book is a collection of the team's best songs in words & music and is accompanied by humorous tributes. Among the songs is 'Hooray for Captain Spaulding', Groucho Marx's theme song and has an amusing essay by him.
- ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE 4259J, Random House, New York, NY, 1936

Kaufman, George Simon: A Night at the Opera
The original script and the dialogue and the action in the film
- The Viking Press, The MGM Library of Film Scripts, New York, NY, 1972, ISBN: 0 670 51129 3 / (hardcover) / Click on flag to order from amazon:
- The Viking Press, New York, NY, 1972, ISBN: 0 670 01948 8 / (paperbound) / Click on flag to order from amazon:
- Lorrimer Publishing, Godalming, UK, 1972, ISBN: 0 85647 027 9 / (hardcover)
- Lorrimer Publishing, Godalming, UK, 1972, ISBN: 0 85647 027 9 / (paperbound) label with UK ISBN in US edition

Kaufman, George Simon; Ryskind, Morrie: Animal Crackers
this is the version presented at the Arena Stage, Washington, DC on May 8, 1982
- Darien House, New York, NY
- Samuel French, New York, NY, 1984, ISBN: 0 573 68137 6 / Click on flag to order from amazon:

Murray, John; Boretz, Allen: Room Service
- Dramatists Play Service, New York, NY, 1937

Pirosh, Robert; Seaton, George; Oppenheimer, George: A Day at the Races
The original script and a transcript of the film
- The Viking Press, The MGM Library of Film Scripts, New York, NY, 1972, ISBN: 0 670 01947 X / (paperback) / Click on flag to order from amazon:
- The Viking Press, The MGM Library of Film Scripts, New York, NY, 1972, ISBN: 0 670 25887 3 / (hardcover) / Click on flag to order from amazon:
- Lorrimer Publishing, Godalming, UK, 1972 / (hardcover and paperback)

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