Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff
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A college president hires two bumbling football players to beat his rival school, but they end up kidnapping the real ones. Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, and read user and critic reviews of this classic slapstick comedy.
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- Comedy, Family, Musical
- Norman Z. McLeod
- 1932-08-19
Horse Feathers (1932) Topics. Comedy, Sport, Musical, Romance, Crime, The Marx Brothers. Language. English. Starring Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd, David Landau, Nat Pendleton, James Pierce, Florine McKinney, Theresa Harris, Frank Rice, Syd Saylor, Phil Tead, Ben Taggart, Edward LeSaint, Robert Greig, E.H. Calvert.
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- Vincent Thomas Lamb
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This term, which was originally the single word horsefeathers, but is now also widely written as two words, is of American origin and its use is largely restricted to the USA. Those of us from other parts of the world will know the term from the Marx Brothers' 1932 film Horse Feathers, in which Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) is unwi...
The term began life in the late 1920s. At that time the American etymologist Leonard Zwilling published an annotated dictionary of the work of the cartoonist T. A. Dorgan (a.k.a. TAD) - A TAD Lexicon. In part 46 of that work, published in 1927, we have the first citation of horsefeathers in print:
Both Dorgan and de Beck used jocular language and are credited with new coinages; for example, gate-crasher (Dorgan) and heebie-jeebies (de Beck). Either could plausibly have coined horsefeathers. It seems likely to have been brought to the public via the popular media as it appears many times in print soon after 1927, which indicates a rapid and w...
Horse feathers is an American slang term for rubbish or nonsense, often used in the Marx Brothers' film of the same name. Learn how it was coined by a comic-strip artist and cartoonist in the late 1920s.
Dec 27, 2011 · Horse Feathers (1932) by the Marx Brothers. Groucho and Chico ham it up in the "Password Scene"
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Jan 9, 2012 · Horse Feathers (1932) - Official Trailer - Marx Brothers Movie HDSubscribe to CLASSIC TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u43jDeSubscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxa...
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The Marx Brothers take on higher education and football in this riotous comedy. The newly minted president of Huxley University, Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho Marx), is getting pressure from his...
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Check out the official trailer for "Horse Feathers," a 1932 movie starring the Marx Brothers: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, and Chico Marx.US Release Date: 1932S...
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