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 ...
Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Frank Ferrante has been playing Groucho Marx for more than 35 years, but he is much more than an impersonator. He is a ...
In our ever-expanding media universe, wonderfully entertaining things are naturally bound to get lost or overlooked. With so many choices available, it isn’t obvious that there may be something ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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,” ...