Groucho: The Comedy of Existence
Friday, May 27, 2016 6:17
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“Groucho and his brothers are outlaws, outcasts, and singular reproaches to society’s injustices and hypocrisies … with deep roots in Jewish forms of irony and dissent,” author Lee Siegel writes. The famous dance sequence with Harpo leading a troupe of black children and adults, often dismissed as “another instance of Hollywood racism, is, on the contrary, as strong a statement of racial equality as you can find on the world of film.”
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Source: http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/groucho_the_comedy_of_existence_20160527/
