SHAKESPEARE

Alternative title

Groucho Marx Show: You Bet Your Life

Synopsis

US quiz show. Two guests are interviewed by Groucho and then play a quiz game in which they win $1,000 if they correctly identify three tunes after hearing the opening bars. In this episode Lord Buckley (appearing as Richard Merril Buckley) tells Groucho that he is a professor of Hipology and writing for Dig magazine where he translates great writers, such as Shakespeare, into jive talk. Includes a jive translation of Mark Antony’s funeral oration speech "The swinging Brutus hath laid a story on you/That Caesar was hungry for power/If it were so it was a sad drag’. For a full transcript of the conversation see Richard Burt, Shakespeares After Shakespeare (op cit).

Series

You Bet Your Life

Language

English

Country

United States

Medium

Television

Transmission details

11 Nov 1956 (Channel: NBC)

Duration

30 mins

Credits

Contributor

Groucho Marx; Richard Merril Buckley

Additional Details

Production type

Other

Plays

Julius Caesar

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Quiz shows

Notes

Notes

Available on amazon.com as GROUCHO MARX - YOU BET YOUR LIFE: THE LOST EPISODES.

General

The series began on radio in 1947. In the autumn of 1960, the series was retitled The Groucho Show, a move meant to distance the production from the quiz show scandal that was erupting at the time.

History

Season 6, episode 3.

Reviews

Burt, Richard ‘U.S. Television’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares: an Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006 (p. 634-5, entry 2924).

Production Company

Name

FilmCraft Productions

Online Retailer

Name

amazon.com

Web

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