Like so many other projects, it never developed beyond the announcement.
In 1961 during a period when college students were re-discovering the comedy team, Screen Gems announced they had plans for a Marx Brothers animated series to be produced by Hanna-Barbera. Groucho apparently enjoyed the shorts so much that he borrowed copies of the films to show at his house to visitors. On February 13, 1975, Disney Archivist Dave Smith invited the iconic comedian and his companion, Erin Fleming, to come to a screening room at the Burbank Disney Studio to view Mickey’s Polo Team (1936), Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938) and The Autograph Hound (1939). Mickey’s Polo TeamGroucho Marx used to joke, “There are more books about (Marx Brothers) films than there are films that we made.” While that is certainly true, Groucho was not taking into account the many animated shorts that featured him and his brothers or variations of them.Īmazingly, at the age of 85 years old, Groucho had never seen any animated cartoon with the Marx Brothers caricatures.
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