Tele-Views Award for Favorite Quiz Show won by Groucho Marx for <i>You Bet Your Life</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1953
name: label: referenced
content: Marx, Groucho
notes: label: Description
content: Tele-Views Award statuette awarded to Groucho Marx for Favorite Quiz Show, <i>You Bet Your Life</i>, at the sixth annual Tele-Views Awards Dinner at Ciro's nightclub in West Hollywood in 1953. The Tele-Views were an early television award presented by a regional TV guide magazine. The award is comprised of a small female figure cast in metal top a wooden base with an inscribed metal plate affixed to its front.
label: Description
content: <i>You Bet Your Life</i> was a comedy quiz series hosted by Groucho Marx on radio from 1947-1960 and television from 1950-1961. Contestants, either celebrity invitees or ordinary people chosen from the studio audience, would be asked a series of trivia questions to earn cash prizes. If a contestant said that episode's "Secret Word," a toy duck bearing Groucho's signature glasses, mustache, and cigar would appear with a special prize. The series was a showcase for Groucho's witty repartee and ad-libbed jokes, and frequently rated among the top ten most-watched programs in the Neilsen ratings throughout the 1950s.
label: Description
content: Julius H. "Groucho" Marx (1890-1977) was an influential, popular, and versatile entertainer best known for his film appearances alongside brothers Arthur ("Harpo") and Leonard ("Chico") in the 1930s and 40s. The Marx Brothers, including lesser-known siblings Herbert ("Zeppo") and Milton ("Gummo") began their careers singing and cracking jokes on vaudeville stages across the country in the 1900s. By the 1920s, the Marx Brothers had become the most popular comedians on the Broadway stage, each with a characteristic costume and persona they combined to create antic and zany performances in a series of successful musical comedies. Groucho was known for his signature eyeglasses, greasepaint mustache and eyebrows, and irreverent wisecracks The brothers' films <i>The Coconauts</i>, <i>Animal Crackers</i>, <i>Monkey Business</i>, <i>Horse Feathers</i>, <i>Duck Soup</i>, and <i>A Night at the Opera</i> among others, were critical and popular successes. In his later years Groucho was a popular solo radio, television, and film performer, helming the quiz series <i>You Bet Your Life</i> from 1947-1961.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
label: location where used
content: United States: California, Beverly Hills
topic: label: general subject association
content: Television
label: Subject
content: Awards and Prizes
label: Subject
content: Comedy
label: Subject
content: Comedians
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
label: See more items in
content: Popular Entertainment
label: See more items in
content: Trophies
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Julius H. Marx
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0588.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0588
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0588.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in; 25.4 cm