In 1965 comedy great Groucho Marx hosted “The Hollywood Palace” variety show on ABC and reunited with his comedy foil of his great films of the 30s, Margaret Dumont.
It was a performance as good as in the films — and Dumont died two days after the taping:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.