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The “Me” in the title is a comparatively unknown Marx named Julius (1895-1977), who, under the nom de plume of Groucho, enjoyed a sensational career on Broadway and in Hollywood with such comedy classics as Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, and A Day at the Races. His solo career included work as a film actor, television game show emcee, and author of The Groucho Letters, Memoirs of a Mangy Lover, and his classic autobiography, Groucho and Me.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!, 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, 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.“The book is never less than readable and 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

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This fascinating but frustrating autobiography of an icon of comedy, stage and film tells you right upfront what to expect. In Chapter 1, Groucho Marx writes, “...most autobiographies take good care to conceal the author from the public.” Everywhere in this book, he writes sarcastically, with madcap wit, jumping from vignette to vignette... and yes, he manages to conceal himself from us, the reader, his public. Humor, especially his brand of repartee, can serve to distract, defend and distance. By the end of “Groucho and Me,” I am still left wondering about everything in between. What were his feelings, his concerns? His relationship with his parents, his brothers, his wives? He dances around it, under it, over it but never through it. The only consistent theme that pervades the book is money. He talks about his salary, the price of bread, price of anything, on almost every page. Growing up in poverty, his fear of financial ruin haunted him his entire life. He never got over the poverty from childhood.Still, this is a great book to read. Groucho is brutally honest, even to the point of being detrimental to himself. He calls himself a miser, a misanthrope. But I enjoyed many of the vignettes, though some are odd: a lot of time spent on how he gets seasick, some dates he had, some meals he had, a particular hotel situation. There is almost nothing about his marriages, veery little about his children, except the youngest. The book is disjointed, randomly wanders, but still there are some great stories, like the hysterical letter he wrote in response to one from Warner Brothers threatening his use of “Casablanca” in the title of his last movie. The whole book was worth reading for that one letter! Groucho writes the entire book like he is delivery a soliloquy in a movie, complete with his “strange interludes”! So in many ways, this is Groucho being Groucho. Groucho was the literary one of the brothers, and yet, the book is not nearly as enjoyable, revealing or as well written as “Harpo Speaks,” which was much longer, more detailed, richer in stories, feelings and thoughts... and all that from the silent one!It is remarkable how different each of the brothers were, as reflected in the autobiographies and biographies. I love them all, because I am a huge fan. It made me especially happy to read how Groucho respected director Irving Thalberg, and that of the 14 movies the Marx Brothers starred in, Groucho’s two favorites were “A Night at the Opera” and “A Day at the Races,” by Thalberg. “A Day at the Races” is my favorite. I guess, like this book, it’s hard to judge the Marx Brothers individually. They are a team. A fabulous, eternal, iconic team. When you read “Groucho and Me,” “Harpo Speaks,” and “Growing Up With Chico,” as I just did, you get a more rounded picture of who each was. I love the ending of this book: a story of two women who circled, then stopped Groucho on a Chicago street, when they realized who it was. One touched him timidly on the arm and said, “Please don’t die. Just keep on living.” His final sentence was “Who could ask for anything more?” While he honestly seems shy at heart, and a bit of a recluse at times, I believe he knows he made a huge impact. He lives on in his movies, which never grow old. We don’t have to fully understand Groucho to just enjoy him, in every film, every year, forever.

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