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  The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx

  by Groucho Marx

  No personage is too big, no nuance too small, no subject too far out for Groucho’s spontaneous, hilarious, and ferocious typewriter. He writes to comics, corporations, children, presidents, and even his daughter’s boyfriend. Here is Groucho swapping photos with T. S. Eliot (”I had no idea you were so handsome!”); advising his son on courting a rich dame (”Don’t come out bluntly and say, ’How much dough have you... (more)
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  Groucho and Me: The Autobiography of Groucho Marx

  by Groucho Marx

  With impeccable timing, outrageous humor, irreverent wit, and a superb sense of the ridiculous, Groucho tells the saga of the Marx Brothers: 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! ;... (more)
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  Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of The Marx Brothers

  by Simon Louvish

  Monkey Business is the first comprehensive biography of all five Marx brothers—Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo and Zeppo. It features the first authentic account of their origins, their comedy roots, and their twenty-four years on stage prior to their first movie, The Cocoanuts , in 1929. Monkey Business brings to life the vanished world of America's variety circuits, leading to the Marx Brothers' Broadway... (more)
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  Harpo Speaks!

  by Harpo Marx

  The Marx Brother who never spoke--Harpo Marx--expounds upon his life and times in Hollywood and on the vaudeville stage in this funny, affectionate, and poignant autobiography as told to journalist Rowland Barber.
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  The Marx Brothers: A Bio-Bibliography (Popular Culture Bio-Bibliographies)

  by Wes D. Gehring

  This bio-bibliography was designed to present a combined biographical, critical, and bibliographical portrait of the Marx Brothers. It examines their significance in film comedy in particular, and as popular culture figures in general. The book is divided into five sections, beginning with a biography which explores the public and private sides of the Marx Brothers. The second section is concerned with the... (more)
• Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo: A History of the Marx Brothers and a Satire on the Rest of the World (A Touchstone book)Joe Adamson

  

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  Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo: A History of the Marx Brothers and a Satire on the Rest of the World (A Touchstone book)

  by Joe Adamson

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  Son of Harpo Speaks: A Family Portrait

  by Bill Marx

• GrouchoHector Arce

  

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  Groucho

  by Hector Arce

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  Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales: The Selected Writings of Groucho Marx

  by Groucho Marx

  Groucho Marx was a comic genius who conquered stage, film, radio and television. But he was also a gifted writer -- the author of a play, two screenplays, seven books, and over 199 articles and essays. This collection presents for the first time the best of Groucho Marx's short comic pieces, written over a period of almost fifty years between 1925 and 1973 for the The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Saturday... (more)
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  The Marx Brothers Scrapbook

  by Richard J. Anobile, Groucho Marx

• Growing up with Chico / Maxine MarxMaxine Marx

  

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  Growing up with Chico / Maxine Marx

  by Maxine Marx

• The Marx Brothers: Their World of ComedyAllen Eyles

  

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  The Marx Brothers: Their World of Comedy

  by Allen Eyles

  This is a book about the Marx Brothers in their early years of their life in show business.
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  My life with Groucho

  by Arthur Marx

  Groucho Marx became world famous as the fast talking, wisecracking man with the moustache and the big cigar. That was his public image. but there was another Groucho--a warm, loving family man. This biography of one of America's most brilliant comedians is also the account of an intimate father-son relationship. Arthur Marx tells of his own stormy life with his father and what it was like to grow up with the Marx... (more)
• The Groucho PhileGroucho MARX

  

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  The Groucho Phile

  by Groucho MARX

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  Love, Groucho: Letters from Groucho Marx to His Daughter Miriam

  by Groucho Marx

  Nearly 200 letters written by the legendary Marx to his daughter Miriam provide a rare glimpse of the complex man behind the mustache. For everyone who still can't get enough of this legendary wit (and excellent writer), here is an extraordinary collection of almost two hundred letters by Groucho Marx. Following a close filial relationship as it unfolds week by week, year by year, these letters move through... (more)