The Marx Brothers were a group of brothers with very funny names: Zeppo, Chico, Groucho, Gummo, and Harpo. With no hopes of employment with names such as those, they had no choice but to enter comedy.* The boys had a German mother and a French father and lived in New York. From 1929 to 1949, they made 13 films. The brothers did stage shows, movies, television shows, radio, and vaudeville.
"Humor is reason gone mad." --Groucho Marx (arguably the most well-known of the brothers).
The Marx Brothers were an extremely popular comedy team. In the 1930s alone, they were in a slew of famous films such as:
Animal Crackers (1930)
Duck Soup (1933)
Monkey Business (1931)
Horse Feathers (1932)
A Night At the Opera (1935)
A Day at the Races (1937)
Prior to reading about the Marx brothers, I always associated them with Marxism (the economic and socio-political worldview) and thought Groucho Marx was some often quoted but invisible cousin of Karl Marx. Clearly, this is not the case.
*This is not a fact.
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