LEO MCCAREY: Over at Paramount, I found myself directing the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup. The amazing thing about that movie was that I succeeded in not going crazy. They were completely mad. I enjoyed shooting several scenes in the picture, though. My experience in silent films influences me very much, and so usually I preferred Harpo. But it wasn’t the ideal movie for me. In fact it’s the only time in my career that I based the humor on dialogue, because with Groucho it was the only humor you could get. Four or five writers furnished him with gags and lines. Groucho thought he was the most
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