According to his son, Groucho Marx hated to have his picture taken by professional studio photographers. “He would be such a pain to the photographer,” recalls Arthur Marx, a playwright and ...

For someone who famously stated that he didn’t want to be a member of a club that would have him as a member, Groucho Marx belonged to a lot of clubs. While a member of the Hillcrest Club in Los ...

The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 ...

The Marx Brothers are arguably America's most famous four brothers. They are definitely also the funniest. There is Chico, with the fake Italian accent; Harpo, the silent type, who let a horn do the ...

When Judy Garland lost the 1954 best actress Oscar to Grace Kelly in “The Country Girl,” she got a telegram from Groucho Marx: “Dear Judy, this is the biggest robbery since Brinks.” For once, Groucho ...

There’s a very short list of people who can say they had an uncle named Groucho. As Harpo Marx’s oldest child, I’m on that list. Although there’s a beautiful piece of home movie footage of Groucho ...

Arthur Marx, a veteran television writer, playwright, celebrity biographer and memoirist who wrote extensively about an often-fractious life with his father, comedic legend Groucho Marx, died April 14 ...