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Delivered Julius Marx in 1890, the outstanding comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed funny team the Marx Brothers, his wide-ranging slapstick portrayals enhanced by ingenious wordplay and two times entendre. In his spirited biography of this beloved American iconoclast, Lee Siegel views the life of Groucho through the lens of his work on stage, screen, and television. The writer uncovers the origins of the performer's outrageous intellectual acuity and amusing insolence toward convention and specialist in Groucho's early on upbringing and Marx family dynamics. The first critical biography of Groucho Marx to address his work analytically, this amazing study draws unique relationships between Groucho's funny and his life, concentrating mainly on the brothers' basic films as a means of understanding and appreciating Julius the man. Unlike prior uncritical and mostly reverential biographies, Siegel's "bio-commentary" makes a distinctive contribution to the field of Groucho studies by attempting to notify the storyline of his life in conditions of his work and vice versa.
