June 20, 1941 –
Advertised as their farewell film (they went on to appear in two more,) The Big Store, starring the Marx Brothers and Margaret Dumont (in her final appearance in a Marx Bros. film) premiered on this date.
Groucho Marx was bitter when he was called for retakes on the Sing While You Sell number on a day his son Arthur Marx was playing a tennis match. He was even more upset when he got the lines he was to speak in the retakes and found them “six times as unfunny” as the ones they were replacing.
The Haus of Dcaligari 