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Eden Hartford (born Edna Marie Higgins; April 10, 1930 – December 15, 1983) was an American film actress from 1957 to 1962. She was the third and last wife of comedian Groucho Marx from 1954 until their divorce in 1969.
Susan Alva Fleming (February 19, 1908 – December 22, 2002) was an American actress and the wife of comic actor Harpo Marx and sister in law to Groucho, Chico, Zeppo and Gummo. Fleming was known as the "Girl with the Million Dollar Legs" for a role she played in the W. C. Fields film Million Dollar Legs (1932).
Marx's friend, writer Sidney Sheldon wrote a roman à clef on Fleming's relationship with Marx titled A Stranger in the Mirror, published in 1976. [4] In the years leading up to Marx's death, Fleming was Groucho's guardian until a court appointed Nat Perrin in May 1977, in the midst of a contentious court case with Groucho's heirs. [5]
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (/ ˈ ɡ r aʊ tʃ oʊ /; October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer who performed in films and vaudeville on television, radio, and the stage. [1]
She is divorced from Sahn Berti, [18] with whom she has two children, including real estate agent Jade Marx-Berti, whose ex-husband Dominic Ruiz is the brother of Dina Eastwood. [19] [20] She married Jack Leung in 1985, [21] and was also briefly married to Mack J. Gilbert, [22] and also used the name Melinda Marx Leung professionally. [23]
Miriam Marx Allen (May 19, 1927 – June 29, 2017) was an American author and the daughter of Groucho Marx and his first wife, Ruth Johnson. Marx was born in Manhattan on May 19, 1927. [ 1 ] She studied for a time at Bennington College in Vermont. [ 1 ]
In 1959 she appeared on Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet Your Life with football coach Jack Curtice as her co-contestant. [5] She was a regular panellist on the DuMont quiz Down You Go and starred alongside Vincent Price in The Tingler. [6] In 1958, she appeared in the film Merry Andrew, starring Danny Kaye.
Her first national television appearance was as a contestant on Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet Your Life in 1958. [31] Multiple bookings on the Jack Paar Tonight Show led to an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, which brought her national prominence as she continued to perform stand-up throughout the U.S. [29] [32]