While he doesn’t do his Margaret Dumont routine on her, his badinage almost rescues the occasion: it would have been even more cringeworthy with Yer Average vapid quiz-show host quipping his way through such ritual exchanges.
On the show, although Groucho would already have had background on his guests, he does at least sound suitably impressed to learn of Anna’s parentage and Viennese background, trying out his “old-world charm”. It’s the superficial format that reduces the encounter. Like Harpo, public persona aside, Groucho was thoughtful and cultured: normal conversation between him and Anna might have been urbane. Still, by 1952 he could be forgiven for having but a sketchy awareness of the composer’s towering work-it was some years before the craze for his music that took off in the 60s, often associated with Bernstein and Barbirolli (besides Mahler tag, more links here).
She died while visiting Marina in Hampstead in 1988 you can read Ernst Gombrich’s address at her funeral here.Īnna’s father had been fêted in New York, both as conductor and composer, from 1908 to his death in 1911-Groucho, then in his late teens and making his way in vaudeville, could even have attended his concerts. She returned to London after Alma died in 1964, going on to live in Spoleto from 1969 and taking a fifth husband. Following the war she made a home, without her husband, in California, before divorcing yet again in 1956. Having trained in painting, by 1930 she gravitated to sculpture.Īfter another divorce, she fled the Anschluss in 1938, living in Hampstead and marrying conductor Anatole Fistoulari their daughter Marina was born in 1943. Anna’s older sister Maria died in 1907 aged 5 her father in 1911, aged 50 and her half-sister Manon Gropius (the “angel” to whom Berg dedicated his exquisite violin concerto) died at the age of 18 in 1935.Īnna’s first two marriages, to conductor Rupert Koller and composer Ernst Krenek, were short-lived. The life of Anna Mahler (1904–88 see also here and here) was just as eventful as that of her mother Alma.
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Undeterred, whether desperate or legally bound (both Anna and Groucho were struggling at the time), she came back for more the very next day for the TV version thankfully it doesn’t seem to appear online-though in a masochistic kind of way, that too would be hard to resist.
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