Cpt. Spaulding’s Lonely Suckers Club Band Identification Game and Giveaway!
Breaking news, January 1, 2024: As of 12:00 am this morning, our contest has finished! The winner, who correctly identified 41 out of 45 likenesses, is (drum roll, please)…
EMMA LEAVITT
Second place is a tie between NICK FLOYD and FRED VELEZ (who each identified 37 out of 45), and third place is SHANNON GERGEN (with 36). Thanks to EVERYONE who participated in the contest, and extra thanks for SIL LEVA for the artwork, and SEAN BRENNAN for the prize!
ORIGINAL TEXT: They’ve been going in and out of style, but they’re guaranteed to raise a smile… As soon as we saw graphic artist and MBCP listener Sil Leva’s design for our eleventh postcard, we knew that in addition to being art, this was a game: Gaze at Sil’s evocative crowd scene and try to identify as many Brothers, relatives, costars, collaborators, and associated figures as possible. But who among our subscribers will be the first to correctly identify all 45 faces in the picture — or, barring that, who will come closest by 12:00 am ET on January 1, 2024? We don’t know, but thanks to the generosity of autograph collector and MBCP listener Sean Brennan, they will receive a spectacular prize: A Cocoanuts movie poster signed by Groucho Marx in 1976.
THE ANSWERS
1. Noah Diamond
2. E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
3. Irving Berlin
4. Frank Ferrante
5. The Manicurist
6. Salvador Dali
7. Karl Marx
8. Matthew Coniam
9. Sam Wood
10. Bob Gassel
11. Nat Perrin
12. Edgar Kennedy
25. Bill Marx
26. Alexander Woollcott
27. Susan Marx
28. Thelma Todd
29. Marilyn Monroe
30. Gummo Marx
31. Harpo Marx
32. Chico Marx
33. Groucho Marx
34. Zeppo Marx
35. Miriam Marx
36. Arthur Marx
13. Lucille Ball
14. Kitty Carlisle
15. Allan Jones
16. Raquel Torres
17. Harold Arlen
18. Harry Ruby
19. Bert Kalmar
20. Irving Thalberg
21. Melinda Marx
22. George S. Kaufman
23. Al Shean
24. Maxine Marx
37. Groucho Marx
38. Erin Fleming
39. Zeppo Marx
40. Chico Marx
41. Harpo Marx
42. Minnie Marx
43. Sam/Frenchie Marx
44. Margaret Dumont
45. Maurice Chevalier
ABOUT THE PRIZE
Sean Brennan, a collector of Marx Brothers autographs for over 35 years, has offered this beautiful Cocoanuts movie poster, in excellent condition, autographed in pencil by Groucho Marx in 1976. Sean will send the poster to whomever is the first to correctly identify all 45 faces in Sil Leva’s postcard design, or to whomever comes closest by 12:00 am ET on January 1, 2024.
