The actual screenplay for Giraffes on Horseback Salad, also called The Surrealist Woman, was found among Dalí’s personal papers In 1996. I had them translated into English and then decided to finish the screenplay.” “I found bit and pieces of Dalí’s screenplay in different languages in several European archives. “I decided to track it down,” Frank, who wrote Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies, and In Heaven Everything Is Fine, said in a press statement. But author Josh Frank the author of three previous books about “lost stories,” could not leave that alone. Rejected by MGM, the script was thought lost forever.
“The curtain is about to rise on a film like no other! But first, the real-life backstory: Giraffes on Horseback Salad was a Marx Brothers film written by modern art icon Salvador Dalí, who’d befriended Harpo. “Grab some popcorn and take a seat,” reads the official book synopsis. Written by Josh Frank, Giraffes on Horseback Salad comes out from Quirk Publishers on March 19. The upcoming graphic novel Giraffes on Horseback Salad pieces together what some papers have called one of the greatest movies never made. Or Dalí didn’t hope, as he considered the screenplay art enough. The iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí was obsessed with the anarchic harpist Harpo Marx and wrote a screenplay for what he hoped would become a Marx Brother movie.