The love the author had for his Father is realised with anecdotes throughout(Yes Groucho really WAS like that!) highly amusing and still quoted by lesser comedians.

This is tempered by the last few chapters when, suffering from dementia, Groucho was exploited by unscrupulous "Friends"

This doesn't spoil for one second this highly enjoyable and often laugh-out-loud account of the greatest comedian of the last century. Every Marxist should have this book.


A well told story of life with an eccentric father   June 22, 1999
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Arthur Marx gives a very good account of his upbringing and life with his father Groucho Marx. No other book about Groucho gives such an insight into his character. Groucho's eccentricities are brilliantly transcribed and very readable. It chronicles the Marx Brothers rise to the top of their profession and concludes with the sad tale of a comic genius being unscrupulously used to make money at any price.

Well worth the money !!!