Comments on: You Bet Your Life

By: Straight Dope Message Board - How did the Marx Bros. and 3 Stooges express their Jewishness?

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:08:57 +0000

[...] Originally Posted by carnivorousplant Groucho must have done that metaphorically. Wasn’t Hitler’s body burned in a ditch and only a piece of skull recovered by the Russians who took Moscow? The Russians recovered his (charred) body, and carted it around East German KGB bases for a few years (I think it was buried in a former auto garage repair pit, for awhile), until finally destroying what was left in the 70s. They do keep a chunk o’ skull and part of his jaw in Moscow, to this day, though. And I did a little checking…according to this account, Groucho danced on the ruins of the F

By: Cort Schaible

Cort Schaible — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 04:56:19 +0000

My father appeared on the Groucho Marx TV SHow "You Bet Your LIfe". I would like to get a copy of the show. My father's name is : Elmer Ernst (slim) Schaible. I am unsure of the date of the episode in which he appeared on the show. I hope you can help me, sincerely, Cort Warren Schaible [Have you looked at the show DVDs available on Amazon.com? Here are links to Vol. 1, and Vol. 2. - Kerim]

By: Leila Abu-Saba

Leila Abu-Saba — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 05:42:23 +0000

Groucho Marx dancing on Hitler’s grave. That story got to me. Thanks for passing it on.

By: Language Log

Language Log — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Cadiz, which reads roughly like the Cliff's Notes version of a random selection from Cervantes as re-written by Henry Miller. Kerim Friedman at Keywords provides some nice Groucho Marx quotes, in relation to the death of Robert Dwan, producer of You Bet Your Life ( Dwan: Anyway, he's from