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When he was a second-year student at UCLA, Steve Stoliar (above) and his roommate founded The Committee for the Re-release of &quot;Animal Crackers&quot; (CRAC) to petition Universal Studios to re-premiere the Marx Brothers&#039; film &quot;Animal Crackers&quot; in 1974. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin)

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Alum&#8217;s memoir on working for Groucho Marx to be made into feature film

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In 1974, with the support of an aging Groucho Marx, a group of UCLA students took on the might of Universal Studios and won. Steve Stoliar and his then-roommate Daryl Busby created The Committee for the Re-release of “Animal Crackers” (CRAC) when Stoliar was a second-year history student, and successfully petitioned Universal Studios to re-premiere the classic Marx Brothers film and eventually fully re-release it in the U.S.

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Alum’s memoir on working for Groucho Marx to be made into feature film

By William Thorne

July 19, 2015 7:37 p.m.