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''I'll Say She Is'' (1924) is a stage revue written by brothers Will B. Johnstone (book) and Tom Johnstone (music) and starring the Marx Brothers and Lotta Miles. ==Background== ''I'll Say She Is'' led to the Marxes' rise out of vaudeville into stardom in the Broadway theatre and later in motion pictures, and came at a time when they had gotten themselves effectively banned from the major vaudeville circuits owing to a dispute with E. F. Albee, and had failed in an attempt to produce their own shows on the alternate Shubert circuit. The show was a hodgepodge of old Marx routines and musical numbers, loosely tied together by the theme of a rich girl looking for excitement in life as presented to her by a succession of male suitors. The climax was a long sketch featuring Groucho as Napoleon, which the Brothers regarded as the funniest thing they ever did. The show opened on May 19, 1924 at the Casino Theatre in New York City and closed on February 7, 1925 after 313 performances. They went on to star in two more hit Broadway shows, ''The Cocoanuts'' (1925) and ''Animal Crackers'' (1928). Unlike those shows, however, ''I'll Say She Is'' was never made into a film, presumably because it was a revue rather than a play. A version of its opening scene, however, was made into a short for Paramount Pictures as part of a feature called ''The House That Shadows Built'' (1931), made to celebrate Paramount's 20th anniversary of their founding in 1912, and as a promotion for the then-upcoming Marx film ''Monkey Business''. An animated version of the Napoleon scene (with Groucho voicing himself) was incorporated into an ABC-TV special called ''The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians'' (1970). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I'll Say She Is」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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