Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (/ˈɡraÊŠtʃoÊŠ/; October , â€" August ,
) was an American comedian, actor, writer, stage, film, radio, and
television star. He is generally considered to have been a master of
quick wit and one of America's greatest comedians.He made feature
films as a team with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was
the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, primarily on
radio and television, most notably as the host of the game show You
Bet Your Life.His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days
in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture,
spectacles, cigar, a thick greasepaint mustache, and eyebrows. These
exaggerated features resulted in the creation of one of the most
recognizable and ubiquitous novelty disguises, known as Groucho
glasses: a one-piece mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, a large
plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and mustache.Julius Henry Marx was born
on October , , in Manhattan, New York. Marx stated that he was born in
a room above a butcher's shop on East th Street, "Between Lexington &
rd", as he told Dick Cavett in a television interview. The Marx
children grew up in a turn-of-the-century building on East rd Street
off Lexington Avenue in a neighborhood now known as Carnegie Hill on
the Upper East Side of the borough of Manhattan. His brother Harpo, in
his memoir Harpo Speaks, called the building "the first real home they
ever knew". It was populated with European immigrants, mostly
artisans. Just across the street were the oldest brownstones in the
area, owned by people such as the well-connected Loew Brothers and
William Orth. The Marx family lived there "for about years," Groucho
also told Cavett.
) was an American comedian, actor, writer, stage, film, radio, and
television star. He is generally considered to have been a master of
quick wit and one of America's greatest comedians.He made feature
films as a team with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was
the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, primarily on
radio and television, most notably as the host of the game show You
Bet Your Life.His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days
in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture,
spectacles, cigar, a thick greasepaint mustache, and eyebrows. These
exaggerated features resulted in the creation of one of the most
recognizable and ubiquitous novelty disguises, known as Groucho
glasses: a one-piece mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, a large
plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and mustache.Julius Henry Marx was born
on October , , in Manhattan, New York. Marx stated that he was born in
a room above a butcher's shop on East th Street, "Between Lexington &
rd", as he told Dick Cavett in a television interview. The Marx
children grew up in a turn-of-the-century building on East rd Street
off Lexington Avenue in a neighborhood now known as Carnegie Hill on
the Upper East Side of the borough of Manhattan. His brother Harpo, in
his memoir Harpo Speaks, called the building "the first real home they
ever knew". It was populated with European immigrants, mostly
artisans. Just across the street were the oldest brownstones in the
area, owned by people such as the well-connected Loew Brothers and
William Orth. The Marx family lived there "for about years," Groucho
also told Cavett.
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