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  Groucho Marx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, after the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915 public anti-German sentiment was widespread, and Groucho's "German" character was booed, so he quickly dropped the accent and developed the fast-talking wise guy character he would make famous.
Groucho developed a routine as a wise-cracking hustler with a distinctive chicken-walking lope and an exaggerated greasepaint mustache, improvising insults to stuffy dowagers (often played by Margaret Dumont) and anyone else who stood in his way.
Aged 86 at death, Groucho was the longest-lived of all the Marx brothers, though younger brother Zeppo survived him by two years.
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 Groucho Marx - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Groucho Marx developed a routine as a wise-cracking hustler with a distinctive chicken-walking lope and an exaggerated greasepaint moustache, improvising insults to stuffy dowagers (often played by Margaret Dumont) who stood in his way.
His stage name, "Groucho," was said to have been bestowed on him because while in Vaudeville he kept his money in a bag around his neck known as a "grouch" bag.
Groucho was a master at improvising clever insults, and became well known for this.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /groucho_marx.htm   (901 words)

  
 Marx, Groucho
The familiar Groucho persona served as a comedic anchor for the popular quiz show format when the sixty-year-old Marx made the transition to television in 1950.
Groucho replaced his trademark greasepaint mustache with a real one, but his attributes were otherwise unchanged.
Groucho's move to TV was not surprising, but the magnitude of his success was.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/M/htmlM/marxgroucho/marxgroucho.htm   (1314 words)

  
 Cigar Aficionado | People Profile | Groucho Marx
After that shock, Groucho was forever insecure about money--he would have preferred to keep the greasepaint under his nose in case he needed to sell it as oil someday.
Groucho had been an inveterate cigar smoker since he was a 15-year-old adolescent playing in small-time vaudeville.
The third and fourth cigars proved no better, and when Groucho trotted in with the fifth one burned down to a nub, hopeful of a sixth La Preferencia on the house, the salesman was convinced that he was the victim of a skin game and booted him out onto the sidewalk.
www.cigaraficionado.com /Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,19,00.html   (3716 words)

  
 My Acid Trip with Groucho
Groucho started acting out each line; as if he were actually being greeted by the duck, the chair and so forth.
Groucho was equally bitter about institutions such as marriage ("like quicksand") and individuals such as Lyndon Johnson ("that potato-head").
Groucho looked frail and unsmiling, but he was alert and irreverent as the audience fired questions at him.
www.sirbacon.org /4membersonly/groucho.htm   (4200 words)

  
 Groucho Marx biography - born October 2, 1890, died August 19, 1977   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Irving Thalberg was right; with his aid, Groucho and his brothers made some of their most memorable films ever, including "Duck Soup" in 1933, "A Night at the Opera" in 1935, and "A Day at the Races" in 1937.
Groucho Marx died from pneumonia on August 19, 1977 at the age of 86.
Groucho was to have played the title role in a TV movie of L. Frank Baum's "The Magical Monarch of Mo", with a teleplay by Gore Vidal, which was never produced.
www.clown-ministry.com /History/marx-brothers/groucho-marx-julius.html   (2130 words)

  
 Groucho Marx's Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
With one-liners that were many times full of sexual innuendo, Groucho never used profanity in any of his performances, and said he never wanted to be known as a dirty comic.
Groucho lived long enough to see the team rediscovered and adored anew, even performing a oneman show near the end of his life and receiving a special Oscar in 1973.
Groucho was to have played the title role in a TV movie of L. Frank Baum's _The Magical Monarch of Mo_, with a teleplay by Gore Vidal, which was never produced.
www.anycities.com /lydiaolydia/groucho.html   (697 words)

  
 Groucho Marx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Leonard Marx, the oldest Marx brother, developed the "Italian" accent he used as "Chico" to convince some roving bullies that he was Italian, not Jewish.
For a time in vaudeville, all the brothers performed in ethnic accents; Groucho did a German accent.
Groucho developed a routine as a wise-cracking hustler with a distinctive chicken-walking lope and an exaggerated greasepaint moustache, improvising insults to stuffy dowagers (often played by Margaret Dumont) who stood in his way.
www.medicaliterature.com /Groucho_Marx.wik   (636 words)

  
 Groucho Marx bio!
Groucho Marx did 26 movies total, of these 15 were with his brothers Chico and Harpo.
Groucho's ashes are in a small room in the mausoleum at Eden Memorial Park in Mission Hills, California.
Groucho is normally regarded as the most popular, and recognized of all the Marx Brothers.
www.groucho-marx.com /bio.html   (413 words)

  
 Groucho Marx
Groucho is known for his sarcastic humor; he always seemed ready to insult the rich — both on the screen and in real life.
She stopped her car and asked, "Oh, gardener — how much do you get a month?" To which Groucho replied, "Oh, I don't get paid in dollars — the lady of the house lets me sleep with her." This was the truth, by the way, since Groucho was married at the time.
Groucho once attended a seance run by the mysterious Narobi, who claimed to be able to get in touch with spirits such as that of George Washington.
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 The Time God Appeared on "You Bet Your Life"
GROUCHO MARX: Thank you, thank you, and welcome to "You Bet Your Life." Say the secret word and a duck will come down and give you fifty dollars.
GROUCHO: Welcome to "You Bet Your Life," say the secret word and the duck will come down and give you each fifty dollars.
FENNEMAN: Groucho, because of the length of the first segment, our only contestants eligible for the final round are Mary McCracken, and her partner, God.
home.earthlink.net /~mattneuman/youbet.htm   (1582 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Groucho is clearly in awe of the poet, who seems equally in awe of the comic.
Groucho's communications with the Warner Brother's legal division over the title "A Night In Casablanca" is probably one of the better known exchanges in Hollywood, and deservedly so as it's utterly hilarious.
Groucho corresponded with a wild variety of people in his day, and some of the biggest laughs come for people you wouldn't expect to be quite so witty.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/030680607X?v=glance   (1853 words)

  
 ABC Radio National - Background Briefing: 28 March  1999  - The Party of the First Part
Groucho Marx: So the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part.
Groucho Marx: Well, you should have come to the first party, we didn't get home till around four in the morning.
Groucho Marx: Now I've got something here you're bound to like, you'll be crazy about it.
abc.net.au /rn/talks/bbing/stories/s20753.htm   (6539 words)

  
 Groucho Marx on Television
You Bet Your Life was on the banter between Groucho and the carefully selected contestants (often one of the players was a semi-famous person - one episode featured Groucho's daughter Melinda Marx and a pre-teen Candice Bergen).
Groucho's quick wit made for some of the funniest moments in television history, with much of the humor coming from the leering comments Groucho directed at the many gorgeous, well-endowed women that frequented the show.
On 'The Groucho Show', whenever a contestant uttered the secret word, the lovely Marylin Burtis was lowered down on a swing with the cash.
www.tvparty.com /moviemarx.html   (483 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Television (The Secret Words)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
However, Groucho certainly had plenty of latitude to depart from the prepared gags and questions (as did the contestants), with the result that much of the conversation was indeed improvised on the spot.
Note that in the former account Groucho is supposedly talking to a father, but in the latter he's addressing a mother.
Groucho makes reference to the exchange being "clipped out by Robert Dwan, the house censor." Robert Dwan was actually one of the producers who worked on You Bet Your Life for its entire run.
www.snopes.com /radiotv/tv/groucho.htm   (1592 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Groucho and Me   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Groucho tells an anecdote in such a way that not only is the punch line funny, but so are most of the lines leading up to it.
Groucho was truly the first "Sssssshock jock!" The book ends on a decidedly melancholy note when in the twilight of his years Groucho meets a young man by the name of Anthony.
Groucho is not interested in telling the reader about his inner life and self, or about the character of his relations with others.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306806665/lewrockwell   (2243 words)

  
 Three Stooges vs. Marx Brothers @ WWWF Ground Zero
Groucho immediately insinuates himself with both Kate and her mom, while Chico and Harpo both mess with Billy Zane and his butler/bodyguard.
Groucho will give this power of command full vent, and the Stooges will be kneeling before him so fast that they might as well change the name of the act to "The Three Interns." The next step is to send them down to the boiler room to make themselves useful.
Groucho distracts him by setting him up with Margaret Dumont, which is just what he deserves for nearly sending 1,500 people to a watery grave.
www.grudge-match.com /History/stooge_marx.shtml   (10155 words)

  
 Transcriptional repression: the long and the short of it -- Courey and Jia 15 (21): 2786 -- Genes and Development   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Groucho was initially recognized as a corepressor by virtue of its role in repression by Hairy family basic-helix-loop-helix
Groucho may block the formation or function of the basal transcription complex by interacting with TFIIE, or as suggested by experiments on yeast Tup1, with components of the mediator complex.
Fisher, A.L. and Caudy, M. Groucho proteins: Transcriptional corepressors for specific subsets of DNA-binding transcription factors in vertebrates and invertebrates.
www.genesdev.org /cgi/content/full/15/21/2786   (7400 words)

  
 Giraffes on Horseback Salads
While love tears at Jimmy's heart, Groucho tries to crack a nut on the bald head of the dwarf in front of him.
Although the guests show surprise, they try for a time to continue their meal, which is, however, brought to an end by showers of rain.
By his side, his back to the spectacle, Groucho is lying, smoking lazily.
www.miskatonic.org /dali-marx.html   (704 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Robert Dwan, 89, director and foil of Groucho Marx
Rather than impose restraints on Groucho, we allowed the performance to run as long as seemed productive.
Dwan wrote, the show's success came from ''giving Groucho Marx an opportunity to exercise his unique skills" as an ad-libber.
Dwan, who became a close friend of Marx and traveled with him to Europe, also directed the comedian in ''Time for Elizabeth," a play written by Marx and Norman Krasna that ran in summer stock in the late 1950a and early 1960s, with Mr.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/01/28/robert_dwan_89_director_and_foil_of_groucho_marx   (430 words)

  
 Characterization of a Novel Mammalian Groucho Isoform and Its Role in Transcriptional Regulation -- Lepourcelet and ...
Schematic representation of the three Groucho protein subgroups, with clear areas showing highly conserved regions and gray shading indicating areas less conserved between the AES and TLE subfamilies.
Groucho proteins can form homo- and hetero-oligomers through interactions that require the Q domain and are necessary for
Groucho proteins act as corepressors of a wide variety of transcription factors (44-47) and thus regulate many developmental
www.jbc.org /cgi/content/full/277/49/47732   (6134 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Since his death in 1977, no major biography of Groucho Marx, the most influential comedian of his generation, has been written.
This biography pulls no punches in displaying Groucho for all he was- insecure, mean and cruel, but you'll probably love him all the same.
This is a very entertaining book, a well-paced documentary of the struggles and eventual success of the Jewish Marx family, interspersed with the glorious skits and waspish lines that mark Groucho Marx as one of the most quick witted, erudite performers of the 20th century.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140294260   (535 words)

  
 A functional interaction between the histone deacetylase Rpd3 and the corepressor Groucho in Drosophila development -- ...
groucho and hedgehog regulate engrailed expression in the anterior compartment of the Drosophila wing.
Transducin-like Enhancer of split 2, a mammalian homologue of Drosophila Groucho, acts as a transcriptional repressor, interacts with Hairy/Enhancer of split proteins, and is expressed during neuronal development.
Groucho is required for Drosophila neurogenesis, segmentation, and sex determination and interacts directly with hairy-related bHLH proteins.
www.genesdev.org /cgi/content/full/13/17/2218   (6845 words)

  
 Groucho Marx Celebriducks for the Connoisseur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When asked by Groucho how many children she had, a woman appearing on his game show responded seven.
Remember men you are fighting for the ladies honour, which is probably more than she ever did.
When discovered by his wife, kissing the maid, Groucho said "I was just whispering in her mouth"
www.beckett.com /celebriducks/groucho_marx/index.asp   (758 words)

  
 BBC - One-Minute Movies - Watch... Groucho
It's a teaser trailer for a movie about the secret life of Groucho Marx, where he was a detective, no less!.
Max Castle is not my real name, and Groucho is not a real film.
All it needed was a great photo of Groucho to fade in and out after the "...Was also the worlds greatest detective..." as that wouldn't have taken away from the simplicity one bit.
www.bbc.co.uk /go/films/int/1mm/grouch/-/films/oneminutemovies/watch/grouch.shtml   (488 words)

  
 groucho
Tim started calling him Groucho, because of his disposition, and the name stuck.
The first time this happened in Groucho's presence, he ran towards the two antagonists and flapped a limp paw at them from four feet away.
It is with deep sadness that I report the passing to the Bridge of Groucho Pussnagel Edwards on March 25., 2004
dorissimo.net /kittyprints/groucho.html   (778 words)

  
 Groucho augments the repression of multiple Even skipped target genes in establishing parasegment boundaries -- ...
Groucho augments the repression of multiple Even skipped target genes in establishing parasegment boundaries
Groucho acts as a co-repressor for several Drosophila DNA binding
Groucho in yeast and in vitro, and groucho and even skipped genetically
dev.biologists.org /cgi/content/abstract/128/10/1805   (803 words)

  
 Groucho Marx: The Writer...
Many people, when they think of Groucho Marx, remember the Marx Brothers Films and You Bet Your Life his TV show, which is still shown in reruns somewhere on the planet.
He wrote at least two autobiographies Groucho and Me, Memoirs of a Mangy Lover, and a book of letters: The Groucho Letters in addition to other books, which can be found in The Library of Congress.
It is clear that Groucho was what he always wanted to be...
www.jgkeegan.com /groucho.html   (420 words)

  
 Restuarant Review: Groucho's Gourmet Burgers. Brought to you by the NEW SpotlightToronto.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Walking along Bayview south of Eglinton looking for something to eat, there is a huge selection of places to enjoy various varieties of foods.
Upon entering the place, you are immediately hit with the mouth-watering aroma of burgers and grease.
Your eyes are drawn to the multitude of awards and articles that are framed on one wall and the various autographed Groucho T-Shirts framed on the opposite wall.
www.spotlighttoronto.com /content/rest/2004/052004_groucho.php   (669 words)

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