Hollywood Palace 2-28 Groucho Marx (host): "Animal Crackers" with Margaret Dumont; Melinda Marx 

Kudos to the great Margaret Dumont!! What a great sport she was !!

How cool... The audience's prolonged applause for Margaret shows it understands how wonderful she was as Groucho's "straight man" for all those movies all those decades ago. A real "thank you for your service" tribute. Yes, she died just three days after this showing. How fitting that Groucho mentioned Margaret when he accepted an honorary Oscar for The Brothers at the 1974 Academy Awards.

The bit with Groucho and Miss Dumont was magical. Clearly, these two had great chemistry and loved and respected each other.

It is amazing how great Groucho and Margaret still were 35 years after the movie.

Margaret Dumont, the one and only! Groucho and Maggie still had the same chemistry that they had almost 40 years previous on stage and later, on film. Ms. Dumont passed away only days after this program was taped, and it aired after her death. Groucho said that it was a honor to do the last show with her.

Margaret Dumont had exceptional class, a truly wonderful lady. Thank you for a very enjoyable posting.

Groucho and Margaret were always magical. It doesn’t get any better than this.

Margaret Dumont was a gem. She was so good with the Marx brothers

Thank the stars this was saved on videotape. Like an Old Timers Day, with both hitting Home Runs.

Absolutely loved Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumant together!❤🙌👍

Margaret Dumont rocks!!!! Hard to believe she'd be gone in just 8 days. She looked so wonderful.

Margaret Dumont was a prize for the Marx Brothers. Groucho was so talented too. My favorite brother.

Margaret Dumont certainly deserved that great applause

More than anything , this show serves as a great time capsule to show what the country was like back then in 1965 . This is the world I was born into in 1967 . Gone through many changes over last 50 years till now .

This actual performance was on February 26, 1965. Ms. Dumont died only eight days later on March 6, 1965. www.findagrave.com/memorial/8775/margaret-dumont

Don Saunders has the same humor as Victor Borga the Danish comic of that time. Especially with the piano bit. 😅

Great program! It was great to see Groucho, Margaret Dumont, and Gordon MacRae.

This is back when abc still had some integrity. Great talent , great commercials and the one and only Groucho!

If you didn’t know, Groucho appeared in Hollywood Palace and this was coincidentally the show Adam West was in while dressed as Batman

This was Margaret Dumont's last public appearance; she died two days after this show was taped.

Dumont's last performance. She died two days later, before this show aired.

Thank you for this.

Gordon Macrae lent his rich, powerful baritone to a passion performance of "More".

I'm guessing Miriam Makeba didn't appreciate all that patronizing "little native girl" stuff in Groucho's introduction,, but I can't really blame Groucho -- those were the times. Meanwhile, Margaret Dumont was her usual magnificent self!

Groucho is HILARIOUS!! His wit and sarcasm is the best. I also loved seeing Groucho's daughter Melinda doing her gig; that had to be such a rush for her. The dance choreography during the song was well done and certainly top notch for its day. For a late teen, she had it down. Probably the finest medley of the popular dances (of the time) ever. She was awesome and really looked gorgeous. 'The Hollywood Palace' on ABC was such a great show and in many ways outdid 'The Ed Sullivan Show' on CBS. In Feb. 2015, I was in Hollywood and one of my must sees was to find the 'The Hollywood Palace' building. I googled it and knew it was still over on Vine and across from the landmark Capital Records building. So, on my last day in town I took the subway there and, needless to say, I was star struck just being in front of it. The giant marquis with chase lights was long gone but I thought of ALL the acts, performers, comedians, musicians and Hollywood's A-list who worked there all those years ago. It really should be a historic landmark in its own right. As it stands now, it's a nightclub called the Avalon, but the building is the same. Even the large open lot next door where many high wire and trapeze acts performed is still there as a parking lot. I talked to a doorman and mentioned to him what this place used to be and he was clueless about its rich history in Hollywood entertainment. I can't fault him as HP wasn't in 'his time', only in ours. Anyway, I was so thrilled to see it up close. Thanks for posting this and the others! I also wanted to point out that the announcer for HP during its 6-year run is none other than the great Dick Tufeld. His voice work for TV shows and commercials spanned several decades but he's probably best known as the voice of the Robot on 'Lost In Space' which ran on CBS from 1965-1968. Also, read that the Palace would get all new cameras and equipment over the summer of 1965 (between seasons) to go to full COLOR broadcast in the Fall of 1965.

She's the apple of her father's eye🍎💞

Loved this! I'm 57 years old and I am just now become a huge Groucho Marx fan. Growing up he wasn't aloud to be seen on our tv, in our home. Family thought of him as rude and a sexist pig. Oh the years that I have missed of being a Groucho fan...I truly love him! He fills my days with laughter!!! I'm THANKFUL!!! ❤️

WONDERFUL!! THANKS FOR POSTING!!

I really liked that comedian from Scotland, Don Saunders.

Gordon MacRae was a magnificent talent whose career was stalled by alcoholism. He kicked booze and spent years counseling others through A.A. Quiet courage.

Margaret Dumont's last appearance. But for 82 years old she looks quite slim and fit. She was the perfect foil for Groucho. "I took some pictures of the native girls when I was there...but they weren't developed." No one like Marx today. Way too clever. "The Hollywood Palace" tried to be like The Ed Sullivan Show but it just never had Ed's magic and quality of guests. The one thing it did have that worked well was the special guest host that I liked. Unfortunately, they never booked any truly exciting guests. Margaret Dumont making an appearance with Groucho after all those years in their films was really special.

Thanks for posting this classic. Even the cheesy commercials were great. Eydie Gorme as a hottie.

What a treasure. Thank you.

Mel's song sounds like a cross between "Downtown" by Pet Clark and "He's In Town" by the Rockin' Berries. I wonder who wrote it???

Groucho always said Ms. Dumont never understood any of the jokes he made at her expense, but I'll always suspect she knew more than she let on. Privately, I'm not sure Groucho believed any woman could keep pace with him.

Margaret Dumont was 82 at the time and died soon after this was recorded. 😇

This was filmed on 3 March 1965. Margaret Dumont died just three days later on 6 March 1965.

Schecky busting out the "Jolson" in his grey tux. Funny classy. Great show.

Enjoyed

I'm guessing after the Hackenbush bit from Groucho's first appearance on The Hollywood Palace people, including myself, asked why Margaret Dumont wasn't playing the woman in the scene. Maybe even Margaret asked Groucho after it aired. So now this bit of magic. I've used bit twice now. I'm starting to sound like Groucho. So now this piece of magic happens. Sorry to see the tape break up during the funniest part. "She died 2 days later" Groucho said.

They must have wanted Groucho to be a lot more tame than being his comic self. He was still a funny man

And an appearance by the late great Miriam Makeba, to boot.

the height of the era of the true "Entertainer"

I was close or already one year when this aired on ABC. Today, Groucho would have been a guest star on the sit-com "The Middle". His daughter was cute!

Could that possibly be Wendy Richard behind Groucho (in the chef's hat) in the "Captain Spaulding" sketch at 55:45?

Margaret Dumont and Groucho Marx- name a better duo.

Shecky Greene liked a few libations and one time told the story of crashing his car into the Caesar's Palace water fountain and when he was awoken by the police asked for the hot wax!

I liked the songs that played at the background of the four kents,but I don't know the name of the tune that followed andalucia... this was a tune which had a popularity in sixties,possibly.If someone makes a comment about the name of this piano song,I'll be grateful to him with all my heart...(also I wonder the name of the original orchestra that played this lovely instrumental tune)

Margaret Dumont has better dance moves than Melinda. Who choreographed that number?

13:29 "Daddy, I don't understand that. Your shoulder is blocking my view of the cue cards".

54:29 seems like follow-up line was too risque for tv in 1965.

Brilliant Miriam Makeba

Shame there no time saying when performance started

Who was that absolute smoke show in the sleeveless French maid outfit during Groucho's performance?

Being 74 and having a cute 18 year old daughter, not bad.

FryRice

i cant beleive those cigarette ads lol how times change

1.42 "Your jeweller will regulate this accuracy free". Not FOR free. Wonders never cease............

4.46 A bicycle from Denmark. It's not a BI-cycle. It's a UNI-cycle. Or monocycle. Ha!ha!ha!ha!ha! Go on, laugh!

10:00 Holy ripoff Batman......Within 4 seconds the bells in Melinda's song are from "Downtown" by Petula Clark....so I looked it up and sure enough "Downtown" was #1 about a month before this...then I kept listening...."Come on down (really?) to the East Side of town" (you're kidding right?) Try that nowadays.

Much of the time in their movies, Margaret Dumont didn't understand the jokes Groucho said.

Melinda Marx was 18 when this show was taped. She couldnt carry a tune in a bucket. Her father wanted her to be a singer only problem... she couldnt sing.

Stop laughing at everything!!! Have some discretion. If you laugh at EVERYTHING, then NOTHING is funny.