Oscar Levant was a concert pianist and actor in the 1930s through the 1950s, famous for his witty banter and comic timing. So when director Stefan Novinski was pitched the idea of a play about Levant ...

The 1955 episodes have been colorized and seamlessly blended into one hour-long special, which finds Lucy trying to fool her visiting New York friend Caroline Appleby into believing she really knows ...

Girl Trouble concerns a shy youth who loves one girl, is pursued by another, loved by a third, and tormented by his relatives. With a disturbing lack of comic inspiration, the play proceeds until the ...

When Harpo Marx met Salvador Dalí, it was kismet, as Josh Frank reports in Giraffes on Horseback Salad, his diverting graphic novel about the pair’s 1937 attempt to collaborate on a movie of the same ...

Susan Fleming Marx had an undistinguished career on Broadway and in films. Her best-known film is the W.C. Fields comedy, Million Dollar Legs. Her greatest role, and the one she cherished most, was as ...

Harpo Marx, of Marx Brothers fame, who was a friend of my father, Morrie Ryskind, and starred in many of his plays and pictures, spells out Tammany’s power and allure in his memoir, “Harpo Speaks,” a ...

Originally opening on the New York stage in 1928 and running for over 190 performances, “Animal Crackers” the movie premiered 90 years ago and was a box office hit in 1930. It made the Marx Brothers ...