Groucho and Eliot were pen pals? You bet your life they were. Watch the sparks fly when two 20th century titans sit down for dinner. It started with a fan letter. It ended with “never meet your heroes.”
Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot met once in 1964 over dinner in London. Groucho, who starred in Animal Crackers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, and You Bet Your Life, was a pen pal with T.S. Eliot, the author of The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Cocktail Party, and Murder in the Cathedral.
A dinner of jokes, jostling, insecurities, and insults. Be let in to an evening of poetry, vaudeville, war, wives, Gilbert and Sullivan, Shakespeare and Freud’s jokes. Groucho Marx Meets T.S. Eliot written by Jeffrey Hatcher with Creative Consultant Evan Hatcher. Directed by Michael Robins and staring Jim Cunningham as Groucho and John Middleton as T.S. Eliot.