Frank Ferrante has been playing Groucho Marx for more than 35 years, but he is much more than an impersonator. He is a serious actor and a true student of both the history of comedy and its ...

If you find the Marx Brothers unfailingly funny, Lee Siegel is not your man. In fact, Siegel argues in what he calls his “biocommentary” on Groucho that the brothers often seemed to aim at something ...

Comedy can have a brutally short shelf life. The expiration date on the classic comedic stylings of the Marx Brothers, however, remains far off in the distance. And proving that has been Frank ...

Viewers of ’60s-era television were often gifted with an appearance by Groucho Marx on “The Dick Cavett Show.” Marx, who died in 1977 at the age of 87, made many appearances on “The Dick Cavett Show,” ...

“How many of you are actually Marx brothers fans and how many of you were dragged here against your will like I was?” Frank Ferrante was doing the asking, during the opening night performance of “An ...

Many of the Groucho Marx clips from PBS' American Masters: Groucho & Cavett came from Cavett's old ABC late-night show airing 9 p.m. weekdays on Decades. If you loved PBS' American Masters: Groucho & ...

In the summer of 1974, Steve Stoliar was out of a job — which proved to be a lucky break. The UCLA student soon found himself employed as an assistant to his childhood idol, Groucho Marx. “Initially, ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT Early in the summer of 1961, a young writer for "Tonight Starring Jack Paar" went to the funeral of playwright, humorist and writer of Marx Brothers' musicals, George S. Kaufman. There ...

In our ever-expanding media universe, wonderfully entertaining things are naturally bound to get lost or overlooked. With so many choices available, it isn’t obvious that there may be something ...

In 1961, Groucho Marx received an unlikely piece of fan mail. The poet T.S. Eliot had written to him, requesting a photograph. Marx responded, and the two began a correspondence that lasted for the ...

Dick Cavett remembers his friendship with Groucho Marx, from the moment they met to the “magical hours” they spent together on television. Good news. The expert author and producer/director of ...