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The publications of Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage, Speaking of Harpo, and Zeppo: The Reluctant Marx Brother, have revived interest in Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales, the anthology of Groucho’s uncollected writing that I edited back in 1993.
A revised edition with additional material was published in 2011. Along the way the book has been published in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan. There have also been American and British paperbacks as well as an audio edition read by Carl Reiner.
This little book has continuously remained in print for more than thirty years in no less than ten separate editions. In 1993 I could not have imagined this. I was thrilled to find a publisher and expected nothing more. But there remains an enthusiastic audience for all things Groucho, and his writing continues to engage that audience.
I'm proud that Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales has become an accepted part of Groucho's bibliography and can be found on the bookshelves of Marx Brothers fans alongside Groucho and Me, The Groucho Letters and all the other books cherished by Marxophiles around the world.
Robert S. Bader
Editor, Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales
Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales
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Author's Biography
Robert S. Bader is the author of Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage (Northwestern University Press, 2016, 2022) and the editor of Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales (Faber & Faber, 1993 / Applause, 2011), an anthology of the comedian’s lost writings. He is also the coauthor of Speaking of Harpo (Applause, 2022), the autobiography of Harpo Marx's wife Susan Fleming Marx, and the author of Zeppo: The Reluctant Marx Brother (Applause, 2024).
Bader is also a filmmaker. His documentary Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes (2018) examines Dick Cavett’s long relationship with Muhammad Ali. It premiered on HBO in 2020 and won a Critics Choice Documentary Award. As part of his ongoing work with The Dick Cavett Show archive, Bader has also produced Dick Cavett’s Watergate (2014) and Dick Cavett’s Vietnam (2015) for PBS. His latest film, Groucho & Cavett, premiered on the acclaimed PBS series American Masters in December 2022.
Bader’s other credits include The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (Warner Bros., 2007) and The Legendary Bing Crosby (PBS, 2009). His other Marx Brothers projects include a pair of DVD collections of Groucho’s television show You Bet Your Life and The Marx Brothers TV Collection, a DVD set of rare television appearances by the brothers. Bader has also appeared in Marx Brothers documentaries including Universal's Hollywood's Kings of Chaos in 2016, and the French production, Le folle histoire des Marx Brothers in 2015. He will also be seen in the forthcoming documentary, Buster Keaton: Home.
Bader's radio credits include Westwood One Radio Network’s series The Lost Lennon Tapes, Little Steven’s Underground Garage and Bing’s Basement for Sirius XM Satellite Radio. He also manages intellectual property for several celebrity estates, including those of Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Al Hirschfeld, Rosemary Clooney, and the Marx Brothers.
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