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Texas and Oklahoma.Īfter their unexpected triumph they attempted comedy whenever it seemed appropriate,and in Denison, Texas, The Six Mascots werereceived so enthusiastically that they wereinvited to stay over, this time with a guarantee.Wishing to please an audience of teachers whowere there for a conference, Groucho wrote acomedy sketch based on the Gus Edwardsschool act. This incident happened in 1912 during atour through Louisiana.
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By this time we were soangry we started making sarcastic remarks.Like, "Nacogdoches is full of roaches" and"The jackass is the finest flower of Texass."Instead of getting mad, the audience laughs.This is the first time we ever did comedy likethat.' a mule runs away,and the whole audience left to catch the mule.Then they came back. The farmers came in and tied uptheir horses beside the Pantages Theatre. 'We were playing a small town in Texas, a farming town. She was the mostimportant woman in my life.'Īs a singing act the Marx Brothers werecondemned to second-rate or even third-rate, vaudeville, and it was only by accident thatthey discovered how funny they could be. 'Without her, we wouldn't have been anything. 'Minnie couldn't make anything except myfather.'īut as an agent she was unsurpassed.
Apparently this pioneering role-sharing worked out perfectly: Sam was asuperb cook while, in Groucho's words: Sam Marx (known as Frenchie), the father of the Marx Brothers, stayed at home with the cooking andhousework, as well as a threadbare tailoringbusiness. She wastheir agent, and sometimes joined the act with her sister, Hannah. Three years later Minnie Marx gathered her sons ( Groucho, Gummo, and later Harpo) together into a singing act called first The ThreeNightingales, then The Six Mascots.
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Eventuallyhe landed work with the Gus Edwards schoolact - his first professional encounter with stagecomedy. 'I became an actor because I had an uncle inshow business who was making $200 a week,and I wasn't making anything, not even anoccasional girl.'Īlthough the job didn't last long, and threetimes he found himself stranded on the roadwithout money, Groucho persisted. He got thejob out of economic necessity: (scroll down) For Groucho this all began in 1905 when he joined a 'travelling troupe as a boy soprano.
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When myAunt Hannah cooked the clam chowder, sheused the same pot she used for the laundry,and there was plenty of starch in both.'Īlthough the Marx Brothers' theatricalcharacters were based on real people andactual experiences, their mannerisms and costumes were developed through trial and errorduring their years in vaudeville. Harpo used to skate in CentralPark with one ice skate he tied on. AtChristmas we didn't have a tree, just a branch,and we each hung up one of our black socksand got a half an orange each for Christmas.All our neighbours even had better garbagethan we did. The Marx family was poor but, as Groucho saidof his childhood: a doctor's wife, whoused to send over notes saying that she wasgoing to call the police, which probably madethem do it even more.' The place would be a shambles,especially if Mrs Marx left them alone. 'They were wild youngsters with a talent forhaving fun. A neighbour of the Marx family in New York Cityduring the early 1900s remarked: People who had known the Marx Brothers before they became famous (when they werestill Julius, Adolph, Leonard, Milton and Herbert), even before they entered show business, all agreed that the five brothers never hadto create the characters they played so convincingly on stage, screen, and television -they already were those characters. He didbelieve, however, that all great comedy isbased on character. He felt that humour, like romance and sex, loses its magic if examined too closely: 'If you talk about thosethings, they go away.' When asked why hethought he was funny, he would answersimply, 'I'm a funny-looking jerk'. Groucho Marx seldom ventured any commenton his own comic style. How did four nice little boys called Julius, Adolph, Leonard and Herbert grow up into the Marx Brothers? Perhaps because they never really were nice little boys. TheMarxBrothers Julius &Adolph &Leonard & Herbert 2. Biography Facts Films Quotes Margaret Dumont Your Comments Old Site
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