One of the icons of the Golden Age of Hollywood is entering the film stratosphere once again!
Geoffrey Rush is set to play comedic legend Groucho. The film is based on Steve Stoliar’s memoir Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House. Deadline confirms the film
is between 1973-1977, The film follows Steve (Plummer) as he enters Groucho Marx’s house for his dream job of working for the aging, frail comedian, under the watchful eye of Erin Fleming (Sienna Miller), a younger woman who had taken over the Marx brother’s personal and professional life. Marx and Fleming had a controversial relationship in his twilight years, she was his devoted girlfriend turned manager. The power struggles result in a comedy of horrors in which obsession, love, celebrity, mental illness, family, and Hollywood are taken to task and brought to a boil in an anarchic way that could only be described as ‘Grouchian’.
Director Oren Moverman stated,
“It’s a pleasure and an honor and responsibility and probably something else to work with this amazing cast on a story I hope will reintroduce the genius of Groucho Marx in a new, provocative, entertaining way all these years later. Steve Stoliar has given the world incredible insight into a bygone era. Done right, we will screw it up royally,”
