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And up next, we bring you a story of how one devoted Mark Brothers fan went on to uncover a long lost Marks Brothers movie.

Here's Steve Stollier to tell us his story.

I'm currently a screenwriter and author and also do voiceover work, but I was not always in the business,

although I was always interested in show business. When I was but a small child in St. Louis,

which is where I was born,

I would see, I Love Lucy episodes,

where wherever Lucy and Desi would go,

they seemed to run into famous celebrities,

so I assumed that's what Los Angeles or Hollywood was like.

Our family moved to LA when I was pushing eight years old and on the airplane that we took,

Andy Griffith was sitting several rows in front of us and Red Skelton was sitting in the road directly in front of us.

And so I thought, wow, it really is like I Love Lucy.

There's celebrities everywhere.

We haven't even landed in Hollywood, and there's two stars who I know who they are are and I watch their shows. This is cool.

And Red Skelton was very cool. He kept entertaining my sisters and me the whole flight.

For me, he kept one of those little, those pop guns where you push the back and a cork on a string comes out. He had that tucked into his suit jacket,

and every now and again he would just turn around and shoot me with his pop gun. This was, of course, before there were any airline safety restrictions.

I don't know that you could bring a pop gun onto a plane now, but in 1962, there was no problem with it.

So I had already met two famous people by the time our plane touchdown.

As I say, I've always had a fascination with famous people and specifically the Marx Brothers and then within

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