Groucho And Me

“An important contribution to the history of show business and to the saga of American comedy and comedians, comics and comicality.” —James Thurber

With impeccable timing, outrageous humor, irreverent wit, and a superb sense of the ridiculous, Groucho and Me tells the saga of the Marx Brothers—Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, Gummo, and Groucho—the poverty of their childhood in New York's Upper East Side; the crooked world of small-time vaudeville (where they learned to carry blackjacks); how a pretzel magnate and the graceless dancer of his dreams led to the Marx Brothers' first Broadway hit, I'll Say She Is!; how the stock market crash in 1929 proved a godsend for Groucho (even though he lost nearly a quarter of a million dollars); the adventures of the Marx Brothers in Hollywood, the making of their hilarious films including A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races, and Groucho's triumphant television series, You Bet Your Life!

Here is the life and lunatic times of the great eccentric genius, Groucho, a.k.a. Julius Henry Marx.

“Its glimpses of American show business at its least glamorous are simple, true, and sometimes rather touching.” —Times Literary Supplement

“My advice is to ration yourself to a chapter a night—it's that delectable.” —Chicago Sunday Tribune