Duck Soup is a 1933 American pre-Code musical black comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, with additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin, directed by Leo McCarey. Re… Read More
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Paramount Pictures released Duck Soup on November 17, 1933. It stars Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo Marx; Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern, Raquel Torres, and Edgar Kennedy. Leo McCarey dire… Read More
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