GROUCHO MARX | YOU BET YOUR LIFE (1948-ca. 1960) Photo archive

Groucho Marx. You Bet Your Life. 1948-1960. Photos. New York: 1948-ca. 1960. Set of five vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm) and 7 x 9″ (18 x 23 cm) black-and-white photos. Four have printed text on verso, one has date stamp. Scattered wrinkling in areas where text was attached, overall very good or better.

• Groucho with cigar in right hand and ABC microphone in left hand. Date stamped 3/16/48.
• Groucho promoting the radio show, which by then had moved to CBS. Dated 1949.
• 1954 portrait with the text describing the show being on both television and radio.
• Groucho with a young woman in a bathing suit, dated September 22, 1960, the last year the show was on the air, but with the new title of The Groucho Show. That show’s season started on September 22.
• Groucho on right, young woman on left, from The Best of Groucho.

You Bet Your Life was a unique comedy quiz show hosted by Groucho Marx. It originally debuted on ABC Radio in 1947. It was the first network TV series to continue into the summer months, with reruns of some of the previous season’s better episodes. To inform the public that these summer broadcasts were repeats and not new programs, the summer show was titled The Best of Groucho, and 13 reruns were selected each year, beginning in 1952. (Wikipedia)