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Article: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SCREEN ROMANCE?(Brief Article)
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- Interview
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- March 1, 2000
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"Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo," quipped Groucho Marx in Monkey Business (1931). It was lechery, of course, not love that Groucho had in mind. Love was something he made to the matronly and monied Margaret Dumont, safe in the knowledge she would never succumb. As for the ritzy blondes he pursued, they all knew how to slide out of his embrace, which may have also come as a relief to him in those preViagra days. You don't have to be Freud to figure out that Groucho's omnipresent cigar wasn't a cigar but a phallus as phony as his greasepaint moustache.
There was something so heroically pathetic about Groucho that I always wanted him to get the ...