groucho marx

     

Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977), was an American comeian and film star. He is famed as a master of wit. He made fifteen feature films with his siblings, the Marx Brothers, and also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show You Bet Your Life. He had a distinctive image, which included a heavy greasepaint moustache and eyebrows and glasses.

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  • "You Bet Your Life" he was the "Most Outstanding Personality"
  • You bet your life he was born Julius Henry Marx
  • "A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five"
  • In the 1932 film "Horse Feathers", he remarked, "I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse"
  • Bartletts quotes this comedian: "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception"
  • He remarked to Esther Muir in "A Day At The Races", "If I hold you any closer, I'll be in back of you"
  • Comedian seen here:(wearing trademark glasses)
  • In "Horse Feathers", this Marx brother played Quincy Wagstaff, president of Huxley College
  • In "A Day at the Races", while checking a pulse, he said, "Either he's dead or my watch has stopped"
  • "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"
  • This mustachioed comic quipped, "I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin"
  • Store det. Wolf J. Flywheel in the film "The Big Store", Ron Goulart made him a master detective in a 1998 book
  • This comic "brother":"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it"
  • "You Bet Your Life" 1950-1961
  • In the 1950s "You Bet Your Life" was hosted by "The one, the only"--this funnyman
  • This 1973 honoree joined the Oscar club even though it would have him as a member
  • Was he on the cover of the July 24 issue? "You Bet Your Life" he was
  • This mustachioed comic "commented he should be given half a" Communist Party "membership because his mother was a gentile"

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