An old Roger Ebert interview with Groucho Marx. Among other topics, Groucho talks about our favorite movie, Skidoo, and about the then-pending Broadway musical, Minnie's Boys. Interesting that he seems reserved in his comments about Shelley Winters, who played his mother, Minnie. Everyone who's written about that show (and a few folks I've spoken with who were involved) said that Ms. Winters was the biggest problem. The producers wanted to dismiss her and bring in Totie Fields, who probably would have been a bigger draw for the ticket-buying crowd then, and who — unlike Shelley Winters — could sing and also talk without stammering. Shelley Winters was a wonderful dramatic actress but few who saw the show thought she belonged in a light-hearted musical. Groucho, it is said, refused to allow the substitution. He saw something in Shelley Winters that reminded him of his mother and thought Totie Fields was nothing like her…and too Jewish. So Winters stayed and the show did not do well, not necessarily just because of her. (Thanks to another talented Shelley/Shelly — chanteuse extraordinaire Shelly Goldstein — for telling me about this article.)