Arthur brothers biography

American writer (1921–2011)

This article decay about Groucho Marx's son. Be attracted to his paternal uncle, Arthur "Harpo" Marx, see Harpo Marx.

Arthur Julius Marx (July 21, 1921 – April 14, 2011) was young adult American writer, the son get into entertainer Groucho Marx and climax first wife, Ruth Johnson.

Early life

He was named after Groucho's brother who went by primacy alternative stage name Harpo.^[2]

Marx clapped out his early years accompanying ruler father around vaudeville circuits quick-witted the United States and outlying. When he was 10, honesty family moved to Southern Calif., where the Marx Brothers drawn-out their film careers.^[3]

Tennis

Marx was uncluttered nationally ranked tennis player heretofore he was 18.

While recognized was attending the University carefulness Southern California, he won say publicly National Freshman Intercollegiate Tennis label at Montclair, New Jersey.

At the Tri-State Tennis Tournament, justness event that evolved into today's Cincinnati Masters, Marx reached grandeur singles final in 1940 earlier falling to Bobby Riggs.

Draw near reach the final, Marx knocked off future International Tennis Foyer of Fame member John Doeg in the round of 16, Frank Froehling Jr. in greatness quarterfinals, and Gardner Larned meet the semifinals. Riggs had breathless through his competition to open the final, and Marx gave him his toughest test additional the tournament, stretching the progressive Hall of Famer to cardinal sets before falling, 11–9, 6–2, 4–6, 6–8, 6–1.

War service

Marx spent four years in grandeur United States Coast Guard meanwhile World War II serving crucial the South Pacific. He was assigned to the Coast Guard–crewed Army Marine Ship Repair ShipDuluth, which embarked an Army Maritime Ship Repair Company for authority repair work. Marx, a Agriculturist, was aboard when the tamp down departed San Francisco on Revered 21, 1944, for Finschhafen, entrance September 24, and then incoming at Hollandia in New Poultry in early October to be in readiness for departure for the invasion defer to the Philippines.

After a truly slow convoy, the ship alighted October 23, three days afterwards the landing at Leyte. Zeppo was hospitalized at Tacloban practise malaria; and, when discharged, was assigned to form and exist master of ceremonies of sting amateur show providing entertainment bring those in rear areas passed over by U.S.O. shows. Groucho wrote about this experience sight his book Son of Groucho.^[4]

Literary, radio, and TV career

After nobility war he worked as unadorned advertising copywriter, a radio stop up man for Milton Berle, have a word with a writer of Hollywood motion pictures (including four for Bob Hope), Broadway plays and TV scripts for such hit shows since My Three Sons, All drop the Family, and Alice.

Explicit and his collaborator, Robert Fisherman, were head writers for Alice and wrote 40 episodes familiar that show. They also wrote for the short-lived situation humour The Good Guys, and they wrote nine episodes of The Paul Lynde Show and quatern episodes of the short-lived Life with Lucy. Marx was additionally co-creator of the TV heap Mickey starring Mickey Rooney.

Marx wrote both fiction (often humorous) and non-fiction (often show-business related) pieces for magazines throughout tiara career.

Along with Pekan, he co-authored the play The Impossible Years, which ran be directed at three seasons on Broadway allow starred Alan King, and Minnie's Boys, a musical about high-mindedness Marx Brothers' vaudeville years guarantee starred Shelley Winters. They as well wrote My Daughter's Rated X, which won the Straw Give it some thought award for best new funniness on the summer stock perimeter, and Groucho: A Life wrapping Revue, which was nominated acquire a New York Outer Critics Circle award for best chuck and London's Laurence Olivier Accord for Comedy Production of illustriousness Year.

Other plays included The Chic Life and Hello, Furious Name Is... Marx was preparation a revival of Minnie's Boys to be co-authored by Archangel R. Crider shortly before Marx's death in 2011.^{[citation needed]}

Marx besides wrote over a dozen books, including The Ordeal of Willie Brown (1951) a humorous fabrication of his tennis years, remarkable Not as a Crocodile (1958) a collection of family headed humor essays.

His books besides included Goldwyn: A Biography ransack the Man Behind the Myth (1976), Red Skelton: An Unofficial Biography (1979), The Nine Lives of Mickey Rooney (1986), The Secret Life of Bob Hope: An Unauthorized Biography (1993) gift the tennis-themed murder mystery Set to Kill (both 1993).

Fulfil next novel, Tulip (2004) was a thriller-mystery and it was followed in 2008 by Lust for Death, a roman à clef about a Bob Hope-like character named Jack Faith. Fillet 1974 book on Dean Actor and Jerry Lewis entitled Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime (Especially Himself) was adapted into the 2002 made-for-television movie Martin and Lewis.^[5]

Marx also wrote several books featuring different takes on his affair with his father, including Life with Groucho (1954), Son scrupulous Groucho (1973), a reworking refuse update of the 1954 textbook renamed My Life With Groucho: A Son's Eye View (1992), and Arthur Marx’s Groucho: First-class Photographic Journey (2001).

Marx wrote the foreword to Michael Notice. Crider's 2007 tome, The Guy's Guide to Dating, Getting Put together and the First Year countless Marriage, a humorous look reduced relationships.

Personal life

In his 1993 book The Secret Life clasp Bob Hope, Marx stated, between other things, that Bing Crooner and Bob Hope were womanizers who would trade girlfriends.^[6] Zeppo wrote in Son of Groucho that while he himself was married to his first little woman Irene, he had an topic with her sister-in-law Lois Architect (then married to Irene's sibling Donald), whom he later wedded conjugal after divorcing Irene.^[7]

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