Groucho Marx was a unique humorist (Photo via John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images)
The Marx Brothers: Zeppo, Harpo, Chico and Groucho in a commercial for their film ‘Animal Crackers’, 1930 (Photo by Paramount/Getty Images)
Julius ‘Groucho’ Marx in 1935, wearing a fez, for his role in “A Night in Casablanca” (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Groucho in the film Horse Feathers, directed by Herman McLeod for Paramount
Groucho Marx dances in the film Goose Chowder (Photo by John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
The poster of the movie Goose Soup, which for many critics is the best Marx Brothers film
Chico, Harpo and Groucho Marx – now without Zeppo, who only starred in the first five films – in the 1937 film “A Day at the Races”(Photo by Movie Poster Image Art/Getty Images)
The actor and comedian Groucho Marx, with his cigar and his famous ironic smile (EFE/yv/File)
Groucho Marx, with his characteristic cigar but without the makeup mustache, in 1945 (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Getty Images)
Groucho and Marilyn Monroe in a scene from Canned Love, from 1949. The comedian once asked that, when he died, his coffin be turned upside down against Marilyn’s (Getty)
Groucho and his last wife, actress Erin Fleming, in 1981 (Photo by Michael Ward/Getty Images)
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