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Humor Risk, also known as Humorisk, is a lost unreleased 1921 silent comedy short film. It is the first film to star the Marx Brothers, and was the only Marx Brothers movie until the release of their 1929 musical comedy The Cocoanuts.
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Russian-born writer Jo Swerling (who also had writtentheirunsuccesful show Street Cinderellaand later got famous for writing the musical Guys and Dolls) wrote the script and raised $ 6,000. Other financers were the FourMarx Brothers themselves, cartoonist Alvah "Al" Posen (named "producer"by Kyle Crichton), Nathan "Nucky" Sachs and Max Lippman. Acc...
Much of the information regarding the film iscontradictoryand it isn't easy to find the exact studio location. In his book TheMarx Brothers - Their World of Comedy(1965), Allen Eyles informs that the film was made at Fort Lee Studiosin New Jersey and in a studio at 49th Street and 10th Avenue in NewYork. In The Marx Bros. Scrapbook (1973), Grouchos...
The title of the film was apparently aspoof of thethen-popular drama Humoresque, one of thebiggest filmhits of 1920, originally a novel by Fannie Hurst that wasadapted for Broadway in 1923 and filmed again in 1946. Theparody probably ended with the title, since Humoresqueis about a Jewishmother who sacrifices everything for her son who grows up to ...
6. Feb. 2019 · In this episode I discuss the famous lost Marx Brothers film, Humor Risk, one of the most mysterious lost films of the silent era.
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1. Apr. 2014 · A 23 second fragment of the lost silent Marx Brothers film HUMOR RISK, self-financed by the team in 1921. The film was discovered earlier this month and is now in the hands of a private...
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Humor Risk (aka Humorisk) is a 1921 silent short film by the Marx Brothers. The film is known for being the first on-screen appearance for the legendary comedy group whose talkie films were well received following the breakthrough of their 1929 hit "The Cocoanuts."
7. Sept. 2015 · The film is usually known as either Humor Risk or Humorisk – an obvious parody (albeit, judging by the synopsis, one extending to title only) of Fannie Hurst’s short story Humoresque, a hit film version of which had been released in 1920.
Humor Risk is a lost silent short comedy horror movie that saw the debut of the Marx Brothers. [1] The movie was released in December 1921 after being shot in April that year.
