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Arthur Marx (born
July 21,
1921,
New York, New York), is an author, a former ranked amateur
tennis player, and son of entertainer
Groucho Marx and his first wife, Ruth Johnson.
Marx spent his early years accompanying his father around
vaudeville circuits in the
United States and abroad. When he was 10, the family moved to Southern
California, where the
Marx Brothers continued their legendary film careers.
Tennis career
Marx made a name for himself on the tennis court and was a nationally ranked tennis player before he was 18. While he was attending the
University of Southern California, he won the National Freshman Intercollegiate Tennis title at
Montclair, New Jersey.
At the
Cincinnati Masters, Marx reached the singles final in 1940 before falling to the legendary
Bobby Riggs. To reach the final, Marx knocked off future
International Tennis Hall of Fame enshrinee
John Doeg in the round of 16,
Frank Froehling in the quarterfinals, and
Gardner Larned in the semifinals. Riggs had blown through his competition to reach the final, and Marx gave him his toughest test of the tournament, stretching the future Hall of Famer to five sets before falling 9-11, 2–6, 6–4, 8–6, 1–6.
Life after tennis
After his brief career as a tournament tennis player and four years in the
United States Coast Guard during
World War II, sixteen months of which were spent in the South Pacific, he worked as an advertising copywriter, a radio gag man for
Milton Berle, and a writer of
Hollywood movies,
Broadway plays and TV scripts for such hit shows as
All in the Family and
Alice. He and his collaborator,
Robert Fisher were head writers for
Alice and wrote forty episodes of the show.
With Fisher, he co-authored
The Impossible Years which ran for three seasons on Broadway and starred
Alan King;
Minnie's Boys, the musical hit about the Marx Brothers' vaudeville years that starred
Shelley Winters;
My Daughter's Rated X which won the
Straw Hat award for the best new comedy on the
summer stock circuit; and which won great critical acclaim and was nominated for a
New York Outer Critics Circle award for best play and London's
Laurence Olivier Award for Comedy Production of the Year.
By himself, Marx has authored twelve books, including
The Ordeal of Willie Brown (1951),
Not as a Crocodile (1958),
Goldwyn: A Biography of the Man Behind the Myth (1976),
Red Skelton (1979),
The Nine Lives of Mickey Rooney (1988),
The Secret Life of Bob Hope and the tennis-themed murder mystery
Set to Kill (both 1993). His 1974 book on
Dean Martin and
Jerry Lewis entitled
Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime (Especially Himself) was adapted into the 2002 made-for-television movie
Martin and Lewis. He has also written several books featuring different takes on his relationship with his father, including
Life with Groucho (1954),
Son of Groucho (1972),
My Life With Groucho (1992), and
Arthur Marx’s Groucho: A Photographic Journey (2001).
At the moment Marx is writing a play that's somewhat autobiographical, about the difficulties of growing up and starting a career in Hollywood when you've a living legend for a father.
Marx lives in Southern California with his wife, Lois, an interior decorator and painter, and two Yorkshire terriers.
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