In the summer of 1974, Steve Stoliar was out of a job — which proved to be a lucky break. The UCLA student soon found himself employed as an assistant to his childhood idol, Groucho Marx. “Initially, ...
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A memory from my teenage years: The death of Groucho Marx on August 19, 1977 -- a Friday, three days after the death of Elvis Presley on August 16, a Tuesday. Memories such as this one welled up last ...
So no one was more astonished than he that by the early ’50s, he was more popular than ever–as a quiz master, no less, on a game show that was less a contest of skills than one of wills, with Groucho ...
The stars of such endearing, beloved and totally slapstick comedies as “A Day at the Races,” “Duck Soup,” “A Night at the Opera” and “Animal Crackers,” among many others—Harpo, Chico, Zeppo and ...
WHAT IT'S ABOUT Early in the summer of 1961, a young writer for "Tonight Starring Jack Paar" went to the funeral of playwright, humorist and writer of Marx Brothers' musicals, George S. Kaufman. There ...
Groucho Marx has been dead since 1977, but to hear his grandson talk about him, one can imagine a smile on his face, those remarkable eyebrows raising “He and I became very close in his later years,” ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Series 1: Correspondence, 1932-1977 is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. In 1965, Marx gave the Library of Congress a portion of his ...