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The temptation to write about yourself is irresistible, especially when you are prodded into it by a crafty publisher who has slyly baited you into doing it with a miserly advance of fifty dollars and a box of cheap cigars' - Groucho Marx Told with humour and wit and in Groucho's own unique style, Groucho & Me: The Autobiography is a rags to riches story with a difference. Son of a Yorkville tailor and his wife, the most outrageous and voluble of the legendary Marx Brothers had a career that stretched from Vaudeville to gameshow, conquering Hollywood on the way. From the triumphs and disasters of a life spent in show business, to his unconsummated loves and self-proclaimed yearning for the young. As TS Eliot said of him: 'The mind boggles.

With timing, humor, and sense of ridiculous, Groucho tells the saga of the Marx Brothers: the poverty of their childhood in New York's Upper East Side, the adventures of the Marx Brothers in Hollywood, the making of their films, and Groucho's triumphant television series. Here is the life and lunatic times of the great genius, Groucho, a.k.a. Julius Henry Marx.