"Harpo was a bachelor at the time, so he was a terrific woman chaser," she said. "Those were the stories I heard," Maxine said.
"She came in tears to my father." Chico went to his brothers and said, "This is my wife. "My mother told me that when she first married my father, each brother made a pass at her," Maxine added. Google Maps may have led Tahoe travelers astray during snowstorm.Pictures: Lake Tahoe's massive snowfall shatters 51-year-old record.5 Bay Area counties further tighten mask mandates in response to omicron.
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"Then they made some lousy movie to save his life," she said.Īs for stories that the Marx Brothers were notorious skirt chasers, both Maxine and Miriam have no doubt the stories are true. "They are going to kill me! They are going to kill me!" he told them. Maxine and I once had a big fight on 'Geraldo' before she would admit that."Ĭhico would come to his brothers, she said, imploring them for money. "I don't think Chico was made to be much of an uncle. Miriam said she was never close to Chico. She described Harpo as an "angelic character." "I asked him, 'Please, don't go again,' because he broke up the entire meeting," she said. Miriam, 72, recalled how her father would show up for school plays and once made a memorable visit to a PTA meeting that brought down the house.
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He didn't know how to handle it." Miriam stressed that her parents would argue but never resort to physical violence and that Groucho was never cruel toward his wife. If she was late for dinner and drunk, he would bait her. "(Groucho) had no understanding of alcoholism. "Unfortunately, my mother (Ruth) was an alcoholic," she said. Groucho, she said, was a "wonderful father." Groucho's eldest daughter, Miriam Marx Allen of San Clemente, also carries vivid memories of growing up with the Marx Brothers. I think poor Grouch was also trying to get her to approve of him, and she never did - and he was the stable one." VIVID MEMORIES
Groucho was dark-haired and she loved blonds. My grandma, Minnie, didn't like him very much. "It had nothing to do with the (1929 stock market) crash.
"Want to know why (Groucho) was sour, honey?" Maxine asked. "Daddy used to say (Groucho) would insult a king to make a beggar laugh," she recalled. Everybody would sing and (Groucho) would look up at me and just mouth the words because I couldn't carry a tune. "They had sing-alongs at the house," she remembered. Maxine said the families were close in the early days. Chico's humor, she explained, was much more gentle. It was only when I got older that he scared me." She noted that Groucho's children were accustomed to his biting humor, but she wasn't. Of her uncle Groucho (Julius), Maxine said: "When I was young, I loved him. "He would always include the cents." When they pressed him on how he remembered the exact amount down to the penny, Chico shot back: "Because that's what Harpo has in the bank!" DIFFERENT STYLES OF HUMOR "When somebody asked Chico how much money he lost betting, he would say, '$2,640,239.27' or some figure he'd make up," Maxine said.