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Groucho Marx (1890-1977): Bet Your Life
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This collection of Groucho Marx's "You Bet Your Life" quiz shows was obviously prepared with care and affection. In addition to the 18 episodes in the set, many of them never included in the 1961 syndication package, there is a host of show-related video and audio clips. The "stag reel" out-takes contain double-entendre language that never made it to broadcast; it's mild by today's standards but very funny, with Groucho getting the most out of every bawdy laugh. A behind-the-scenes demo with Groucho, announcer George Fenneman, and the series' directors is interesting, and the show's original 1950s commercials are included (but programmed separately, a minor point).
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With his film career essentially over, the 60-year-old Groucho moved to a new medium - television - as the host of "You Bet Your Life," a comedy and quiz show that premiered in 1950 and ran for more than 10 years. Groucho started hosting "You Bet Your Life" on radio in 1947, and the show was popular more for Groucho's interviews with the contestants than for the actual question and answer portion of the show. Though Groucho never received any major awards during his film career, he won an Emmy in 1951 as "Most Outstanding Personality" for his work on "You Bet Your Life." The show was ... nominated for five Emmy awards, first as Best Comedy Show, and later as Best Quiz Show. In 1948, "You Bet Your Life" won a Peabody Award, which honors distinguished achievement and meritorious service in radio and television.
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Groucho ... tried radio but was unsuccessful until You Bet Your Life [I]n 1948. Although he was known as one of the screen's great talkers, the visual aspects of his comic style were important, too. Lee Strasberg noted:
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