Eden Hartford (born Edna Marie Higgins; April 10, 1930 â€" December
15, 1983) was an American film actress from 1957â€"62. She is best
known as the third wife of comedian Groucho Marx.She was born to Edgar
(1884â€"1975) and Beatrice Higgins (1894â€"1989) in Utah as Edna Marie
Higgins. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. Her elder sister is actress Dee Hartford, who was married to
film director Howard Hawks.She died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in
Los Angeles, California in 1983, aged 53, from endometrial cancer.
Before her death she had been living in Palm Springs, California. She
was married to Groucho Marx from 1954 until their divorce in 1969, but
had no children. Hartford's ashes are interred in a small niche at
Westwood Memorial Cemetery, with her former married name of 'Marx' on
her epitaph.
15, 1983) was an American film actress from 1957â€"62. She is best
known as the third wife of comedian Groucho Marx.She was born to Edgar
(1884â€"1975) and Beatrice Higgins (1894â€"1989) in Utah as Edna Marie
Higgins. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. Her elder sister is actress Dee Hartford, who was married to
film director Howard Hawks.She died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in
Los Angeles, California in 1983, aged 53, from endometrial cancer.
Before her death she had been living in Palm Springs, California. She
was married to Groucho Marx from 1954 until their divorce in 1969, but
had no children. Hartford's ashes are interred in a small niche at
Westwood Memorial Cemetery, with her former married name of 'Marx' on
her epitaph.
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