Around the thin premise presented to them, the Brothers simply did their thing with confidence and glee Ч having worked the stage shows for so long, they knew exactly where the laughs were and how to play them. Both The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers were toured extensively as vaudeville shows, so by the time they were set to film, much of it was already laid out: plot, characterisation, gags, timing, even the cast were all fairly set in stone. In the first two films, one can see the Brothers establishing their personas. Here, collected together for the first time, are the first five Marx Brothers features (The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup), the only five to feature all four performing Marx Brothers before Zeppo left in frustration. Their iconic images are more famous than their films in many ways many viewers whoТve never seen a moment of Duck Soup still recognise GrouchoТs stooped walk and cigar dangling just as they recognise the silhouette of Charlie ChaplinТs Little Tramp. The Marx Brothers: chatty, punning Groucho, silent, horn-honking Harpo, faux-Italian stereotype Chico and poor, lost straight man Zeppo. There would have been six brothers had the eldest, Manfred survived, but the five that did live to grow and prosper spent their childhood in various vaudeville acts that their mother Minnie and their uncle Al Shean put together for them before they became enduring screen legends. The Marx Brothers spent thirty years in vaudeville, starting as a singing act, before they changed to comedy and became masters of mayhem on Broadway and in Hollywood. The Marx Brothers Collection: A Night at The Opera, A Day at The Races, A Night in Casablanca.
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