Apr 22, 2019
Even some of the most devoted of Marx Brothers fans don’t know about this project: a wild, fantastical movie script that Surrealist artist Salvador Dali wrote for the comedy icons, after forging a fast friendship with the most beloved of the Marxes, Harpo. The movie was called Giraffes on Horseback Salad, and not only was it too over the top to get made, the film script was also lost to history. Until now.
Pop culture archaeologist, and lifelong Marx Brothers fan, Josh
Frank, spent six years piecing the storyline together from copious
amounts of research and contact with both the Dali and Marx camps.
Now he’s turned it into a new book – also called Giraffes on
Horseback Salad – that unfolds the story behind the story and
presents the script as a gorgeous graphic novel. We talk to Harris
about his must-read new passion project on this week’s Pop
Literacy.
For more information on Harris and his book, and to catch one of
his Giraffes on Horseback Salad live presentations,
check him out on
Facebook.