Editing Groucho Marx (section)

=== Motion pictures ===
[[File:Marx Brothers 1931.jpg|upright|thumb|The Marx Brothers in 1931 (from top, Chico, Harpo, Groucho and Zeppo)]]
Marx made 26 movies, including 13 with his brothers Chico and Harpo.<ref name="bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.groucho-marx.com/bio.html|title=Groucho Marx Biography|access-date=June 25, 2008|website=Groucho-marx.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119074319/http://internetserviceteam.com/|archive-date=January 19, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Marx developed a routine as a wisecracking hustler with a distinctive chicken-walking lope, an exaggerated greasepaint mustache and eyebrows and an ever-present cigar, improvising insults to stuffy [[dowager]]s (frequently played by [[Margaret Dumont]]) and anyone else who stood in his way. As the Marx Brothers, he and his brothers starred in a series of popular stage shows and movies.

Their first movie was a silent film made in 1921 that was only shown once, in the Bronx,<ref name="bio"/> and is believed to have been destroyed shortly afterward. A decade later, the team made their last two Broadway shows—''[[The Cocoanuts]]'' and ''[[Animal Crackers (1930 film)|Animal Crackers]]''<ref name="bio"/>—into movies. Other successful films were ''[[Monkey Business (1931 film)|Monkey Business]]'', ''[[Horse Feathers]]'', ''[[Duck Soup (1933 film)|Duck Soup]]'' and ''[[A Night at the Opera (film)|A Night at the Opera]]''.<ref name="bio"/> One quip from Marx concerned his response to [[Sam Wood]], the director of ''A Night at the Opera''. Furious with the Marx Brothers' ad-libs and antics on the set, Wood yelled in disgust: "You can't make an actor out of clay." Marx responded, "Nor a director out of Wood."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Boller|first1=Paul F.|last2=Davis|first2=Ronald L.|title=Hollywood Anecdotes|edition=reprint|year=1988|publisher=Ballantine Books|isbn=0-345-35654-3|page=220}}</ref>

[[File:Groucho Marx in Duck Soup film still.jpg|thumb|left|Marx in ''[[Duck Soup (1933 film)|Duck Soup]]'' (1933)]]
Marx also worked as a radio comedian and show host. One of his earliest stints was a short-lived series in 1932, ''[[Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel]],'' costarring Chico. Though most of the scripts and discs were thought to have been destroyed, all but one of the scripts were found in 1988 in the [[Library of Congress]].
In 1947, Marx was asked to host a radio quiz program ''[[You Bet Your Life]].'' It was broadcast by ABC and then CBS before moving to NBC. It moved from radio to television on October 5, 1950, and ran for eleven years. It was largely sponsored by [[DeSoto (automobile)|DeSoto]] automobiles and Marx sometimes appeared in the commercials. Filmed before an audience, the show consisted of Marx bantering with the contestants and ad-libbing jokes before briefly quizzing them. The announcer for the show was [[George Fenneman]]. The show was responsible for popularizing the phrases "Say the secret word and the duck will come down and give you fifty dollars", "Who's buried in [[Grant's Tomb]]?" and "What color is the [[White House]]?" (asked to reward a losing contestant a consolation prize).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kanfer|first=Stefan|title=The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for and about Groucho Marx|publisher=Random House|year=2000|isbn=037570213X|location=New York|pages=209}}</ref>
[[File:Groucho and Chico Marx during A Day at the Races.jpg|thumb|left|Groucho and his older brother [[Chico Marx|Chico]], 1937]]
Throughout his career Marx introduced a number of memorable songs in films, including "[[Hooray for Captain Spaulding]]" and "[[Hello, I Must Be Going (song)|Hello, I Must Be Going]]", in ''Animal Crackers'', "[[Horse Feathers#Musical numbers|Whatever It Is, I'm Against It]]", "[[Horse Feathers#Musical numbers|Everyone Says I Love You]]" and "[[Lydia the Tattooed Lady]]". [[Frank Sinatra]], who once quipped that the only thing he could do better than Marx was sing, made a film with Marx and [[Jane Russell]] in 1951 entitled ''[[Double Dynamite]]''.