A YEAR’S WORK FOR COMEDIANS
THE MARX BROTHERS MAKE A PICTURE The reason why they can never average more than 6ne picture a year is illustrated by the Marx Brothers in their current Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy, “Go West.” The comedy stars point out that it takes six times as long to prepare a feature-length comedy as to film it. Their other pictures have had much the same schedule, but here is the one for “Go West: Thirty weeks spent in evolving a new type of story with new comedy situations and dialogue, four weeks rehearsing a stage version of that comedy plot, five weeks trying it out for 103 stage performances, five weeks polishing it in the light of what they learned from the tour, and finally only eight weeks to make it.
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Southland Times, Issue 24313, 19 December 1940, Page 2
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132A YEAR’S WORK FOR COMEDIANS Southland Times, Issue 24313, 19 December 1940, Page 2
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