Lillian Roth sings "Why Am I So Romantic?" 

Apparantley she was married 6 times, each ending in divorce.. makes you wonder

@@yonikrakauer3208 Wow! 😮

She was a victim of molestation when she was 8 years old. She had a nagging stage mom and her first love died suddenly. Used by managers and promoters, she descended into serious alcoholism, married a creep who abused her and stole all her money and then went public with her alcoholism, married her AA sponsor and HE left her and took all the cash she had left.

Burst into beers more like. Bless her.

I believe she was a recovering alcoholic. That takes guts

Lillian Roth did enjoy great success. Starting at age 7. She was a Broadway star and then under contract for years with a Hollywood studio. She had 6 short-lived marriages that took a toll on her career wise and financially. After dropping out in the 30s, her alcoholism grew worse but she not only survived that she had a religious conversion and was starting back on Broadway in 1962 for almost a year run in 'I Can Get It For You Wholesale'. She later toured in Funny Girl. She did some films and Broadway during 70s. Dying in 1980 at 69. She had a varied life but her career was successful. Less talented performers did not overshadow her. Disease and bad decisions side-tracked her but she made an amazing comeback in her later years. I think she was ultimately a success story.

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In her autobiography,, Streisand says that Roth was kind and sweet to her

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It means that people are frying (judging) you

Four years late, but are you sure he wasn't referring to Oscar Shaw in "The Cocoanuts," because by all accounts he was just as disparaging of Shaw's acting/singing chops as you claim he was of poor Hal Thompson in this "picture" (as ole timers like Groucho once called it).

@@Ryan-on5on I think it's in The Groucho Phile book, I'd have to check it again... He wasn't disparaging of Marilyn Monroe or Maureen O'Sullivan (he gave her lots of attention) but characters like Hal Thompson were expendable.

@@KidMillions Hal Thompson was more of a singer than actor but part of the woodenness here , both of em, is that the movies were just climbing out of the silent era and so there often were vestiges of the pantomimey stuff in the early talkie musicals. As usual Groucho was being a jerk. At least , a noodge. .

@@gregorypalmer5403 And yet Lillian Roth is totally delightful and not wooden at all.

I don't know why he would say that (if he did) about Hal Thompson. His singing of this one short verse was just fine. In terms of acting, the role of Johnny Parker was a minor character, so the writers didn't really do much in the way of character development. Add to that, it was 1930, which meant that sound movies was still in its infancy, and the actors still had to remain pretty stationary.

What do u mean ??

@@patrickramirez8433 Look up her life story. Not too long after this movie was when her descent into alcoholism began

Things were not even so great for her when “Animal Crackers” was made. She was molested as an young girl and then driven like nuts to work and please...