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This 17 minute film was shot the same evening as the fall 1952 season premiere. The film was shown exclusively at the Desoto Dealer's Convention. The pretty young secretary in the film is an actress named Eden Hartford, who would become the third Mrs. Groucho Marx on July 14, 1954
The racier moments that were removed from You Bet Your Life were saved and compiled into annual presentations for DeSoto conventions. The Program staff referred to these as "Stag Reels". This 11 minute collection, hosted by George Fenneman was the first of these reels. It contains outtakes from the first three television seasons of the show
This is The demonstration recording that Groucho and John Guedel financed and recorded at CBS studio were Guedel produced Art Linkletter's "House Party".
The Walgreen drug store chain was celebrating its anniversary. The star-studded syndication special was just one of the numerous radio appearances that Groucho made in the 1940's. But this is the one that led to his Your Bet Your Life audition. This recently discovered recording of Groucho and Bob Hope's 1 minute segment had long been though lost.
The second Collection of outtakes compiled for the annual DeSoto Convention is an eighteen minute reel that starts off with a gag at Groucho's expense.
In December 1950 Desoto distributed a twelve inch 78rpm record featuing highlights from yYou Bet Your Life and a Holiday Message from Groucho. to their dealers.
The third collection of outtakes compiled from the Desoto Convention is a 7 minute reel of clips, mostly taken from the 1955-1956 season.
The fourth collection of outtakes from You Bet Your Life
This collection cotains outtakes from mostly the eighth and ninth season.
A series of outtakes from the 1959-1960 seasons
A series of outtakes from the 1960-1961 seasons
Pilot Filmed but never shown.
Radio program from 1945
Crazy 150-Cat Lady and the Wood Carver
The Cook, The Sergeant, and the House Keeper
The School Teacher and the Student
The Stunt Double and The Tree Surgeon
Ramiro 'Pedro' Gonzalez Gonzalez and Harry Potter
The Human Cannonball
Groucho sings Scottish folk music.
First Guests are Irene Vajulis & Walter Shibel; Jesse L. Lasky's Son
First guests are Nina Troimeier & Clarence Allen. Secret word is Door
Ramiro G. Gonzalez was working as a handyman at a San Antonio, Texas television station when he appeared on You Bet Your Life. He became a star overnight and went on to a long career in movies and television. The program staff was bombarded with letters to rerun a repeat broadcast of this episode. NBC even ran a clip from the Gonzalez interview on the NBC Comedy Hour on March 4, 1956
Spunky old lady vs. Groucho.
Dr. & Mrs. Irving Puziss / Store Buyer & Woodchopper / Ward Kimball & Irish Housewife
In this episode of You Bet Your Life, the secret word was “paper” and if contestants said this word in their conversation with Groucho, they won extra prize money!
Groucho's eight year old daughter appears on the show; Bob Mathias
Oula Anderson & Charles O'Brien Osbourne
Laura La Plante
High school financier; Boxing referee.
First female Mayor of Newport Beach.
Husband & wife professional wrestlers
Red Sanders, UCLA football coach.
Groucho does modern dance.
The Dosses, parents of 12 adopted kids.
Leela & Lola & Herman & Harmon Loveless.
Jim Ferrier, golf pro.
Groucho & Melinda sing Gilbert & Sullivan.
In this episode of You Bet Your Life, the secret word was “door” and if contestants said this word in their conversation with Groucho, they won extra prize money!
Groucho sings German folk music.
Edith Head, Hollywood costume designer.
Heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis (then retired and in debt) competes for a chance at the top prize.
Dueling zoomerangs; MLB pitcher Bob Lemon.
Mamie Masara & Albert Hibbs, roulette wheel expert.
Newly sworn in lawyer, Beverly Rubens; Major League Baseball manager Chuck Dressen; and Gypsy Boots, American fitness pioneer, who lived in caves and atop of trees for twenty years, are among the guests.
Groucho disturbed by crazy-eyed guest.
Groucho does an Irish jig.
Mama don't allow Groucho's dancing 'round here.
Anthony Herbert, the most-decorated Korean War veteran.
First Guest Burt Stewart & Mrs. Edgar R. Hill
Dimitri Tiomkin, famed Hollywood composer.
French perfume magnate Edouard Cournand baffles Groucho with a French joke.
A & year old friend of George Fenneman and Pacific Coast League Umpire Emmett Ashford
Pancho Gonzales, top-ranked professional tennis player.
Dr. Giovanni, world's greatest pickpocket.
Archie Moore
Old-time movie cowboy Hoot Gibson and a couple who bore eleven children join Groucho in this episode.
Mr. Anthony, advice expert; Billy Pearson, jockey.
Esther Bradley, country singing ex-factory worker.
Fifi the Sheep-headed Girl; Esther Bradley returns.
Special guest actress Fifi D'orsay.
Liberace; Groucho sings "I Love a Piano".
Colonel Stapp, fastest sled rider in the world.
Henry McLemore, newspaper columnist.
Sci-Fi author Ray Bradbury.
Songwriter Harry Kuby (who penned "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" for the Marx Brothers' 1930 classic Animal Crackers) appears on the show.
Mayor of Torrance, Calif.; season finale.
Kuldhip Singh, singing medical student.
Groucho takes a polygraph; Groucho's father-in-law.
Gary Cooper's Mother and Lord Buckley
George Fenneman reveals his middle name.
C.S. Forrester, author of Horatio Hornblower.
Chop my head off.
Beauty school dropout; dog mathematician.
Female airplane pilot (and future astronaut), Jan Dietrich; an Italian war bride, who also survived the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria; and a talent agent, who is also a good dancer, are among the guests.
Farmer's wife tries to tell a joke.
First guests are dancing instructors Ann Reardon & Bill Eddy.
Andy Devine's son Dennis; Betina Consolo's 1st show.
Betina Consolo returns
Prince Monolulu; Betina Consolo returns again.
Groucho laughs; Prince Monolulu returns.
A married contestant flirts with George Fenneman, prompting one of Groucho's classic ad-libs: "This is real love. You don't often see that on a quiz show."
Lena & Mercedes, the confusing Portugese sisters.
Jack Warner, Jr.; Lena & Mercedes return.
Groucho shakes, rattles and rolls; Chief Cochise.
First Guests are Jan Dietrich & John Roese
The never-ending quiz segment.
Organ Grinder and Monkey
Raffles, the reluctant Mynah Bird.
John Charles Thomas attacks Rock and Roll.
Debating the merits of Rock & Roll.
Wrestling great Wild Red Berry trades barbs with Groucho. Chico is visible in the studio audience. [Note: Incorrectly marked as episode 11 on the Shout Factory DVD.]
Fenneman inhales helium.
Phyllis Diller makes her first appearance on television.
Francis X. Bushman; Groucho learns about "snogging".
Groucho tests his popularity with a phone survey.
Sammy Cahn; The Private Life of George Fiddeman.
Arthur Godfrey's mother, Kathryn.
Hollywood stunt woman Patty Desaultels.
Groucho's special guests are world champion bridge player Charles Goren and comedian Ernie Kovacs
The Tap Dancing Septuagenarian Landlady
Groucho's daughter Melinda appears as a contestant with her schoolmate Candice Bergen. Filmed April 1958.
The first episode in which DeSoto is not the show's sponsor; Groucho challenges a fencing champion contestant to a duel. The prize: Miss Finland.
Johnny Weissmuller (the definitive screen Tarzan) joins Groucho in the famous Tarzan yell. Poet Richard Armour also appears.
Groucho meets an organ grinder whose monkey is a double for the iron-sharp comedian and a young couple for whom the term "in over your head" was invented.
Albert Hibbs, expert on roulette wheels.
Groucho meets a man who blows up an inner tube with his mouth. Strongman Jack Moseley
H.G. Morton, founder of organization to dominate women.
H.G. Morton returns, by popular demand.
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale.
Parry O'Brien, championship shot putter.
Jack LaLane.
Celladoor recites a terrible poem.
Monty Montana and Rex the Wonder Horse.
Crazylegs Rowena returns.
Creators of Honey West.
The lost language of Boo Boo.
"Crash" Corrigan.
Patrick Thines, cross-country walker.
Plug "Groucho and Me" and win $100.
Kent Shelby, owner of a tropical island.
Atoon, the Lebanese salami salesman.
Evelyn Rudie, child actress.
Ferdinand Demara, "The Great Imposter".
Groucho does the Tango.
Tor Johnson
Art Linkletter and The Sylvers
Sitcom writer Max Shulman is the featured guest; Groucho makes a reference to the recent quiz show scandals.
Doodles Weaver.
Home for wayward husbands.
Pamela Mason, wife of James Mason.
Tiger Woman loves Poopsie Pie.
Ellis Arnall, former governor of Georgia.
My, how Melinda has grown...
Fashion analysis by William Travilla.
Groucho dances the Flamenco.
Groucho shares his views on marriage.
Fenneman does the Cha-Cha.
Crazylegs Turnbull.
The funniest Baptist preacher Groucho ever hoid.
Rocky II: The Sequel.
Louise Beavers and an angry plumber.
Groucho does the Bunny Hop; Daws Butler.
Ida, tart as apple cider.
Fenneman on the psychanalyst's lawn chair.
Joy Harmon, whose biggest claim to fame was a memorable car-washing scene in Cool Hand Luke, makes her first television appearance opposite Groucho. She would later become his assistant on the short-lived series Tell It to Groucho.
The hypnotized NBC page.
You can't hypnotize a Firefly!
The Man Who Shot Khrushchev.
Mr. Dempsey, the amazing talking chihuahua.
The Sylvers return to sing Christmas Carols
Groucho the telemarketer.
Groucho invites Mark Harris, author of Bang the Drum Slowly, on the program.
Princess Margaret's temporary butler.
The Arab Prince who wrote _The Exorcist_
Lou Nova, the Yogi Boxer.
The Fabian Society
The McKeever Twins.
The McKeever Twins
Harpo Marx makes a cameo appearance promoting his autobiography, "Harpo Speaks".
Melinda Marx & Bobby Van.
Frankie Avalon and Harry Ruby
Final Episode!
