Book description
Surrealist icon Salvador Dali and iconoclast comedians The Marx Brothers planned a never-made film that merged their sensibilities in a sublime mashup of absurdity, surrealism, slapstick, and wit. But the original screenplay was lost until now. It sounds like fan fiction, but it s true: modern art icon Salvador Dali…
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1 author picked Giraffes on Horseback Salad as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
If you’re a vintage Hollywood-comedy fan who aspires to be a Groucho-Harpo-Chico completist, Giraffes on Horseback Salad is the book for you. It might be called the best movie the Marx Brothers never made—“movie” in the sense of an elaborately captioned and intricately illustrated storyboard. Even by the standards of that freewheeling medium called the graphic novel, this is an audacious piece of work.
The genesis of Giraffes on Horseback Salad was complicated. Sometime in the mid-1930’s, the celebrated painter Salvador Dalí got it in his head to bring about a Marx Brothers film keyed to the reality-altering agenda of…
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