26 Facts About Marx Brothers

Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act that was successful in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in motion pictures from 1905 to 1949.

Marx Brothers are almost universally known by their stage names: Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, and Zeppo.

Marx Brothers were born in New York City, the sons of Jewish immigrants from Germany and France.

Samuel Marx Brothers was a native of Mertzwiller, a small Alsatian village, and worked as a tailor.

Marx Brothers's name was changed to Samuel Marx, and he was nicknamed "Frenchy".

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Marx Brothers had an older 'sister'—actually a cousin, born in January 1885—who had been adopted by Minnie and Frenchie.

Leonard Joseph "Chico" Marx is the eldest of the brothers, born in 1887.

Some members of the Marx family wondered whether he was real, but Manfred's death certificate from the Borough of Manhattan reveals that he died, aged seven months, on 17 July 1886, of enterocolitis, with "asthenia" contributing, i e, probably a victim of influenza.

Marx Brothers is buried in Washington Cemetery, beside his grandmother, Fanny Sophie Schonberg, who died on 10 April 1901.

All the brothers confirmed that Minnie Marx had been the head of the family and the driving force in getting the troupe launched, the only person who could keep them in order; she was said to be a hard bargainer with theatre management.

Marx Brothers were from a family of artists, and their musical talent was encouraged from an early age.

Marx Brothers became a dedicated harpist, which gave him his nickname.

Marx Brothers was the youngest and had grown up watching his brothers, so he could fill in for and imitate any of the others when illness kept them from performing.

Marx Brothers' vaudeville act had made them stars on Broadway under Chico's management and with Groucho's creative direction, with the musical revue I'll Say She Is .

On 11 March 1933, the Marx Brothers founded a production company, the "International Amalgamated Consolidated Affiliated World Wide Film Productions Company Incorporated, of North Dakota".

Marx Brothers instituted the innovation of testing the film's script before live audiences before filming began, to perfect the comic timing, and to retain jokes that earned laughs and replace those that did not.

Marx Brothers authored several books, including Groucho and Me, Memoirs of a Mangy Lover and The Groucho Letters .

In 1970, the four Marx Brothers had a brief reunion of sorts in the animated ABC television special The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians, produced by Rankin-Bass animation .

The Marx Brothers' segment was a re-working of a scene from their Broadway play I'll Say She Is, a parody of Napoleon that Groucho considered among the brothers' funniest routines.

The real Groucho Marx visited the set, of which a photograph was taken by David F Smith.

Marx Brothers have cameos in the Disney cartoons The Bird Store, Mickey's Gala Premier, Mickey's Polo Team, Mother Goose Goes Hollywood and The Autograph Hound .

Harpo Marx Brothers appeared as himself on a 1955 episode of I Love Lucy in which first, he performed "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" on his harp, then, he and Lucille Ball reprised the mirror routine from Duck Soup, with Lucy dressed up as Harpo.

Groucho Marx Brothers can be seen on the cover of Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits by Alice Cooper.

Harpo Marx Brothers is depicted on the cover of the album Everybody's in Show-Biz by The Kinks in 1972.

Ron Goulart wrote six books between 1998 and 2005 where Groucho Marx Brothers was a detective.

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Marx Brothers were collectively named No 20 on AFI's list of the Top 25 American male screen legends of Classic Hollywood.