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Groucho Marx
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx was an American comedian, actor, comic vocalist and game show host who performed in vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, and television. A master of the one-line retort, he is considered one of America's greatest comedians.
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entertainment · American comedian (1890–1977) · comedian · film actor · television actor · stage actor · radio personality · actor · game show host · also Groucho Marx, Julius Henry Marx, Julius Marx, Marx
Born 2 October 1890 · Died 19 August 1977 · Q103846
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 8,512 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6× the usual 1,427, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Legacy Added an additional detail regarding the association between Bugs Bunny and Groucho.
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2023· 1 entry
Notable artist William Kentridge included a drawing of Marx in his solo museum exhibition at The Broad in Los Angeles
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2022· 3 entries
Chicago Tribune: When Groucho Marx met Dick Cavett, there was magic in the air and on your television sets
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collider: Geoffrey Rush to Play Groucho Marx in Raised Eyebrows Biopic
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Yahoo: Geoffrey Rush to Star as Groucho Marx in ‘Raised Eyebrows’ Biopic
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2008· 1 entry
Minnie's Boys was remounted Off-Broadway with Erik Liberman as Groucho and Pamela Myers as Minnie Marx
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2001· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “Groucho Marx made a risqué wisecrack about his cigar to a female You Bet Your Life contestant with 19 children.” False.
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1982· 1 entry
Gabe Kaplan filmed a version of the same show, entitled Groucho
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1977· 22 entries
Died 1977-08-19.
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Marx was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with pneumonia
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Marx was never told for fear of eliciting still further deterioration of his health
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“I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.”
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“And when he saw me, he was weak, but he was there; and he put his fingers on the tubes and played them like it was a clarinet. Groucho played the tubes for me, which brings me to tears.”
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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
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“[Variant:] "Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.”
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“Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.”
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“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution”
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“There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.”
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“I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.”
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“I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.”
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“I got $25 from Reader's Digest last week for something I never said. I get credit all the time for things I never said. You know that line in You Bet Your Life? The guy says he has seventeen kids and I say: "I smoke a cigar, but I take it out of my mouth occasionally"? I never said that.”
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“I cannot say that I do not disagree with you”
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“I intend to live forever, or die trying.”
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“I drink to make other people interesting”
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“I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.”
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“Marry me and I'll never look at another horse.”
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“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”
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“Why should I care about posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?”
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“know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife”
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“I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.”
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1975· 1 entry
Marx called his most significant achievement having a book selected for cultural preservation in the Library of Congress
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1974· 2 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1974).
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At the 46th annual Academy Awards, Jack Lemmon presented Marx with an honorary Oscar to a standing ovation
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1973· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1973).
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On a short-lived variety show hosted by Bill Cosby
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Keeping the re-run title The Best of Groucho
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1972· 2 entries
At Cannes, Marx was made a Commander in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, an honor he was very proud of
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Largely at the behest of his companion Erin Fleming, Marx appeared in a live one-man show at Carnegie Hall that was later released as a double album, An Evening with Groucho, on A&M Records
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1971· 1 entry
Marx said being published in The New Yorker under his own name, Julius Henry Marx, meant more than all the plays he appeared in
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1968· 1 entry
“I looked like I was embalmed.”
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1967· 1 entry
Marx admitted to voting for Wendell Willkie, the Republican candidate for president in 1940, over Franklin D
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1965· 1 entry
Marx starred in a weekly show for British TV titled Groucho, broadcast on ITV
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1964· 1 entry
Marx starred in the "Time for Elizabeth" episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, a truncated version of the play that he and Norman Krasna wrote in 1948
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1962· 1 entry
Marx, after acting as occasional guest host of The Tonight Show during the six-month interval between Jack Paar and Johnny Carson, introduced Carson as the new host
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1960· 1 entry
Marx, a lifelong devotee of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, appeared as Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, in a televised production of The Mikado on NBC's The Bell Telephone Hour
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1958· 1 entry
Accompanied by then-wife Eden, daughter Melinda, Robert Dwan and Dwan's daughter Judith, he climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of Adolf Hitler's bunker, the site of Hitler's death, and performed a two-minute C
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1950· 1 entry
Marx had grown a real mustache (which he had already sported earlier in the films Copacabana and Love Happy)
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1948· 3 entries
Where it closed after only eight performances
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Marx's comedy play April Fool premiered at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara, California, to mediocre reviews
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Awarded Peabody Awards (1948).
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1947· 1 entry
Marx was asked to host a radio quiz program You Bet Your Life
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1946· 1 entry
As part of the marketing campaign for the Marx Brothers film A Night in Casablanca, Marx created a storyline that Warner Bros
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1937· 1 entry
He also co-authored the screenplay for the 1937 film The King and the Chorus Girl, in which he did not appear as an actor; this is Marx's only official writing credit for film or television.
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1932· 1 entry
Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel, costarring Chico
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1921· 1 entry
That was only shown once, in the Bronx, and is believed to have been destroyed shortly afterward
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1915· 1 entry
Public anti-German sentiment was widespread, and Julius's German character was booed, so he dropped the accent and developed the fast-talking wise-guy character that became his trademark
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1909· 1 entry
Marx and his brothers had become a group act, at first called The Three Nightingales and later The Four Nightingales
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1905· 1 entry
When he joined up with an act called The Leroy Trio
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1890· 1 entry
Born 1890-10-02.
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