Thursday, March 22, 2012

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause.

We conclude the birthday follies with the natural followup to our other celebrants, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim and William Shatner. Of course the final celebrant has to be Leonard Marx, born March 22, 1887. He was, of course, a noted pianist:



Why not a duck, you ask?



Watch the timing on this one. It looks a little slow, because in the theater (where the brothers often practiced their routines before filming them), this is where the audience would be laughing, and you never want to step on a laugh.



With the Marx Brothers, there really was no sanity clause.

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