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Enjoy this article? Donna Shore January 1, pm. JohnnyG January 19, am. Linda Elaine November 2, pm. Groucho also had a complicated relationship with Melinda, his third daughter from his second marriage to Kay Mavis Gorcey. How about if she only goes in up to her waist? After he divorced Eden Hartford — his third wife who was about 40 years younger than him — in , Groucho met Erin Fleming in That same year, there were revivals of his films at movie houses and libraries across the nation.
On the other hand, it was Fleming who waged a successful campaign for Groucho and his brothers to receive a special Academy Award in In , Groucho even tried to adopt her, until a psychologist declared he was not mentally competent to do so.
Arthur further alleged that Fleming pushed Groucho to perform, whether he was able or not, for her own financial gain. Melinda Marx, too, testified that Fleming terrorized her father, yelled at him, and tried to alienate him from his family. Later, his year-old grandson, Andrew, was named permanent conservator.
Although he left most of his estate to his three children, Groucho left administrative control of his name, image and movie rights to Fleming. This, too, was a source of legal contretemps. Fleming spent much of the s in and out of mental health facilities, suffering from a variety of psychiatric illnesses, and was often homeless. But his tour with a troupe impersonating female singers ended when his voice suddenly changed. Although all were living in New York, the three experienced Marx brothers—Chico, Harpo, and Groucho—worked separately.
Finally they teamed together, touring the vaudeville circuit. Harpo, extremely nervous onstage, could not be trusted to deliver his lines; he himself imposed muteness on his public image. Harpo and Gummo disbanded the group when they enlisted in World War I, and Chico and Groucho entertained soldiers in army camps. After the war Gummo left show business for manufacturing, and Zeppo gained his initiation into comedy in revues.
During the early s the Marx brothers achieved their final stage identities: Groucho, the almost schizophrenic, mustached punster with the stooped glide, ever-arching eyebrows, and the fat cigar; Harpo, the mute but expressive curly-headed imp, with one hand on somebody's silver service and the other playing his harp; Chico, almost as voluble as Groucho, dressed in an organ-grinder's costume, speaking a number of tortured dialects while performing at the piano; and Zeppo, the straight man.
Their "spontaneous idiocy" and frenzied burlesque of their own revues captivated audiences. To this day, the films they made for Paramount studios, including "Horse Feathers" and "Duck Soup," remain perennial favorites showcasing the Marx Brothers' winning formula that combined satirical commentary and dizzying wordplay with slapstick antics and jaw-droppingly surreal sight gags.
Zeppo left the group to become a talent agent and as a trio, Groucho, Chico, and Harpo moved over to Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer for whom they filmed "A Night at the Opera" and "A Day at the Races," continuing to provide Depression Era audiences with some welcome distraction and laughs.
Their movie "Room Service" had mixed results and their final string of films declined in quality and success.
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