The Writer Speaks: Arthur Marx
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- Arthur Marx, the screenwriter and author son of Groucho Marx, talks about how he ended up in California, writing for television, and playwriting. His most famous works on screen include ALICE, MICKEY, THE PAUL LYNDE SHOW, MY THREE SONS, and BLONDIE IN THE DOUGH. Interviewed by Angela Wales Kirgo. Filmed on April 16, 2010.
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Bless him... Lived another eleven years after this was taped. Rest in joy, Art.💫
I had no idea Arthur Marx worked so hard with those popular Shows all those years ago , he actually did what his father Groucho wanted to do.
He actually lived only less than a year more after this interview.
@@joecaroselli5858 actually he lived mother 11 years after this- almost
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Terrific insight. He passed away slightly less than a year later.
Thank U, Mr. Marx👏😘😍.
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Arthur's book, "The Secret Life of Bob Hope" is fascinating :-)
I'm sorry Arthur threw out his father's rewrite of his book. Aside from the autograph value we would have had a record of what Groucho took offense with and what he felt was the truth.
Arthur was a director and producer. Watch the credits of old Perry Mason shows.
What a fascinating guy! So glad he decided to be a writer and had successes.
A fascinating story!
Loved your writing Mr. Marx.
Obviously inching towards the end of his life when this recording was made, but still a great memory, and a fascinating character: while Groucho sounds like an ogre of a father at times, it's not hard to understand his anger at having his son try to shape his image for him, when he'd already gone out of his way to shape it for himself. I don't feel though that criticism should be directed at either Groucho or Arthur for that - if you've got a famous father, you're going to want to write about him - if you are a writer - and if you're that famous person, you're going to be hyper-sensitive about it - especially if you're also a writer.
The world was still a better place for Groucho and Arthur having lived.
RIP Arthur Marx
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take a sniff every time arthur sniffs
He sure looks like Groucho... Not like some British Prince who don''t look at all like the "official" father.
14 years on tv- yes no script- no lines to learn- made him very happy... AND VERY RICH!
G M made over $16,000 a week on “you bet your Life!
Read his book "Son of Groucho". Groucho was a very hard man to know and live with, and Arthur was a weak man. With Grouch for a father, I am not surprised his children were all estranged from him at the end of his life.
It's fair to say that Groucho was difficult. But, as an author, if not a son, it was Arthur's job to understand him. Not to apologize for him, but to paint a fuller, deeper portrait that offers the reader insight into what made the man who he was. Arthur didn't scratch the surface. He just whined.
@@kevinwachs5905 But did Arthur really want to be a writer or was he pushed/guilted/resigned to being one?
@@texasmimi5566, what was the pressure Arthur was under to write compared to the pressure his father and uncles were under to perform? Arthur wasn't yanked from school and sent into the workforce after the fifth grade. Arthur wasn't sent off on a vaudeville tour at age fourteen, or expected to anchor the family's act for twenty years of filthy boarding houses, train jumps, dishonest theater managers, etc.
If Arthur had chosen to give up writing and become a car mechanic, or sold dresses, or become a theatrical agent, or anything he chose, would Groucho have stopped him? Could Groucho have stopped him even if he had wanted to?
Melinda left at 18 and did what she wanted.
Coast guard- what we (and he) called the Jewish navy!
The tv show Alice is another example of an exercise in MEDIOCRITY.
He'd never work for his father, only exploit him over and over.
A definition of exploit: to use selfishly for one's own ends. I don't believe Arthur did this. He could not get away from his famous father/family. Arthur did try very hard to make it without using nepotism, but with such a famous parent it is no wonder all any media wanted to talk about was Groucho....
@@texasmimi5566, of course Arthur used his father for his own selfish ends. How many books did he write with Groucho's name in the title? Was it five? And how many plays? Two? And none with either a modicum of research or a modicum of insight. All were shallow works to grab a buck off the name.
Don't want to judge him as a son? That's fine. Read his books and judge him as a writer. You'll come to the same conclusion that John Lahr came to.
@@kevinwachs5905 I am interested in finding out Lahr's opinion of Arthur. Arthur made me angry in his book because he was such a milquetoast. He was spineless, but Groucho's personality was so unique and strong did anybody stand up to him?
@@texasmimi5566, Lahr, who wrote one of the best show business biographies in his Notes on a Cowardly Lion about his father Bert Lahr, wrote a scathing review of Arthur's book Son of Groucho. I can't remember what magazine it was in, but it might have been The New Yorker.
@@kevinwachs5905 Should you return to this thread, and happen to remember where that article could be found, I'd be most interested to read it. I read Son of Grouch, which WAS fascinating, but preferred Groucho's own book, Groucho and Me (written, of course, before the Erin Fleming years). I don't think Arthur was spineless, by the way - but it was interesting that Groucho refused to have him as his conservator, and chose his (G's) grandson instead. A talented and complex family.