Marx Brothers Marx Brothers until the premiere of "I'll Say She Is", which was their first Broadway show, so this would mean that they used their real names throughout their vaudeville days, and that the name "Gummo" never appeared in print during his time in the act. Other sources reported that the Marx Brothers went by their nicknames during their vaudeville era, but briefly listed themselves by their given names when "I'll Say She Is" opened because they were worried that a Broadway audience would reject a vaudeville act if they were perceived as low class. The Marx Brothers' stage shows became
Karl Marx in film out." At least two episodes of the BBC TV comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" include sketches depicting Marx in modern-day settings, and which lampoon the presumed gravity of his thinking. In one episode Marx competes in a TV quiz show for a lounge suite but fails to win when the show's host poses him a prosaic question about football. "The Young Karl Marx" is a 2017 film about Young Marx directed by Raoul Peck starring August Diehl. Films in which Karl Marx is represented and/or in which his ideas or principal works comprise the main narrative theme: Karl Marx