Home Again

Marx Brothers

1914

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Cover of sheet music for “Do Not Say Goodbye” from the Marx Brothers’ musical comedy Home Again. The comedy was set in the style of vaudeville, with a series of musical and comedic numbers based around a topic, rather than a plot and characters. The show ran from 1914 to 1915 and helped launch the brothers' successful career into Broadway and then into the film industry. 

Credits

Leonard Marx, music and lyrics for the movie Home Again (New York, Chicago, and London: M. Witmark & Sons, 1915). Courtesy The Archives of Popular American Music, Library of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.

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Marx Brothers

19th–20th Century

All five Marx brothers, the eldest of whom was Leonard Joseph Marx (Chico, 1887–1961), were born to Minnie (née Schoenberg) and Samuel Marx in New York City. Minnie helped introduce her sons to the performing arts by way of her brother Abraham Schoenberg, who performed on the vaudeville stage as Al Shean in the duo Gallagher and Shean. Using the name Minnie Palmer, the Marx Brothers’ mother later managed the comedy troupe of which Chico, Harpo, and Groucho formed the core. Chico built his stage persona around popular American stereotypes of Italians, a caricature often used to set up punch lines for the brothers’ acts. Following Minnie Marx’s death in 1929, Chico became the informal manager for the Marx Brothers. He died in Hollywood.

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