Book Description
Before Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields American comedy was innocent. After they left their hilarious smudges on the genre, comedy was anything but.
Here in a captivating book comparing and contrasting these two premier American comics is the history of how flimflam came to prevail as a major comic form. These two comic geniuses excelled at a new brand of shtick, antiheroic humor that killed off the tame demeanor of their many predecessors in show business.
By derailing the comedy of innocence, Groucho and Fields brought film comedy to its Golden Age. --Ce texte fait référence à lédition Broché .
About the author
Wes D. Gehring is Professor of Film at Ball State University and Associate Media Editor at USA Today magazine.
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