Did You Hear the One About the Movie Salvador Dali Wrote for The Marx Brothers?

Even some of the most devoted of Marx Brothers fans don’t know about this project: a wild, fantastical movie script that Surrealist artist Salvador Dali wrote for the comedy icons, after forging a fast friendship with the most beloved of the Marxes, Harpo. The movie was called Giraffes on Horseback Salad, and not only was it too over the top to get made, the film script was also lost to history. Until now.

Pop culture archaeologist, and lifelong Marx Brothers fan, Josh Frank, spent six years piecing the storyline together from copious amounts of research and contact with both the Dali and Marx camps. Now he’s turned it into a new book – also called Giraffes on Horseback Salad – that unfolds the story behind the story and presents the script as a gorgeous graphic novel. We talk to Harris about his must-read new passion project on this week’s Pop Literacy.

For more information on Harris and his book, and to catch one of his Giraffes on Horseback Salad live presentations, check him out on Facebook.