Editing Groucho Marx (section)

== Legacy ==
[[File:Marx-Lennon Abkhazia stamp.jpg|thumb|Marx and [[John Lennon]] (a pun on "[[Karl Marx|Marx]]" and "[[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]") on a 1994 [[Abkhazia]] stamp as a way of asserting the former Soviet republic's independence.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/28/world/philatelists-just-wanna-have-fun.html ''Philatelists Just Wanna Have Fun''], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 28, 1995.</ref>]]
Groucho Marx was considered the most recognizable of the Marx Brothers. Groucho-like characters and references have appeared in popular culture both during and after his life, some aimed at audiences who may never have seen a Marx Brothers movie. Marx's trademark eyeglasses, nose, mustache, and cigar have become icons of comedy—glasses with fake noses and mustaches (referred to as "[[Groucho glasses]]", "nose-glasses," and other names) are sold by novelty and costume shops around the world.

The cover of [[The Firesign Theatre]]'s 1969 album, ''[[How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All]]'', subtitled ''All Hail Marx and Lennon'', features images of Groucho Marx and John Lennon.

[[Nat Perrin]], close friend of Groucho Marx and writer of several Marx Brothers films, inspired [[John Astin]]'s portrayal of [[Gomez Addams]] on the 1960s TV series ''[[The Addams Family]]'' with similarly thick mustache, eyebrows, sardonic remarks, backward logic, and ever-present cigar (pulled from his breast pocket already lit).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://w3.unisa.edu.au/unisanews/2015/July/feature.asp|title=The return of Gomez Addams|access-date=July 21, 2020|archive-date=September 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924090227/http://w3.unisa.edu.au/unisanews/2015/July/feature.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref>

''[[Minnie's Boys]]'', a 1970 Broadway musical, focused on the younger years of Marx (played by [[Lewis J. Stadlen]]), his brothers, and his mother (played by [[Shelley Winters]]). Marx received credit as the show's advisor and appeared on ''[[The Dick Cavett Show]]'' to promote the production.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Minnie's Boys|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/minnies-boys-3517|access-date=October 21, 2020|website=Internet Broadway Database}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Jones|first=J. R.|title=The Marx Brothers TV Collection follows the legendary comedy team into the 1950s, '60s, and '70s|url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2014/09/22/the-marx-brothers-tv-collection-follows-the-legendary-comedy-team-into-the-1950s-60s-and-70s|access-date=October 21, 2020|website=Chicago Reader|date=September 22, 2014|language=en}}</ref> 
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In 1972, at Cannes, Marx was made a Commander in the French [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]], an honor he was very proud of.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://attemptedbloggery.blogspot.com/2014/03/grouchos-french-order-of-arts-and.html|title=Attempted Bloggery: Groucho's French Order of Arts and Letters|website=Attemptedbloggery.blogspot.com|date=March 11, 2014|access-date=November 30, 2020}}</ref>

A meeting with [[Elton John]] led to a press photo of Marx pointing both of his index fingers and thumbs at Elton like revolvers. John's spontaneous response of holding up his hands and replying, "Don't shoot me! I'm only the piano player!" was so amusing that Elton John reused it as the [[Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player|title of a 1973 album]]. An added Marx homage was that a poster for the Marx Brothers' movie ''[[Go West (1940 film)|Go West]]'' was included on the cover art.<ref>{{cite book |last=Buckley |first=David |date=2007 |title=Elton The Biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rVXrl8aZP0kC&pg=PA144
 |publisher=Chicago Review Press |isbn=978-1556527135}}</ref>
[[File:1930 - Strand Theater Ad - 21 Sep MC - Allentown PA.jpg|left|thumb|upright|Newspaper ad for ''Animal Crackers'' (1930) with [[Lillian Roth]] paragraph.]]
Marx was also known to influence the [[Warner Bros. Cartoons|Warner Bros. cartoon]] character [[Bugs Bunny]], who recited his famous line "Of course you realize this means war!" in several cartoons including  ''[[Long-Haired Hare]]'' and ''[[Bully for Bugs]]'', after his antagonist has offended him.

Two albums by British rock band [[Queen (band)|Queen]], ''[[A Night at the Opera (Queen album)|A Night at the Opera]]'' (1975) and ''[[A Day at the Races (album)|A Day at the Races]]'' (1976), are named after Marx Brothers films. In March 1977, Marx invited Queen to visit him in his Los Angeles home; there they performed "[['39 (Queen song)|'39]]" [[a cappella]].<ref>Queen: The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Crown Kings of Rock. p.96. Voyageur Press, 2009</ref>

A long-running ad campaign for [[Vlasic Pickles]] features an animated stork that imitates Marx's mannerisms and voice.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/business/media/29adnewsletter1.html?pagewanted=print Stuart Elliott, ''Pink or Blue? These Bundles of Joy Are Always Green''], ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 30, 2007.</ref> On the famous [[Hollywood Sign]] in California, one of the "O"s is dedicated to Marx. [[Alice Cooper]] contributed over $27,000 to remodel the sign, in memory of his friend.<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 29, 2017|title=A Sign is Reborn: 1978|url=https://hollywoodsign.org/announcement/1978-a-sign-is-reborn/|access-date=June 3, 2020|website=The Hollywood Sign|language=en-US}}</ref>

Actor [[Frank Ferrante]] has performed as Groucho Marx on stage since 1986. He continues to tour under rights granted by the Marx family in a show entitled ''An Evening with Groucho'' in theaters throughout the United States and Canada with supporting actors and piano accompanist Jim Furmston. In the late 1980s, Ferrante starred as Marx in the off-Broadway and London show ''[[Groucho: A Life in Revue]]'', penned by Marx's son Arthur. Ferrante portrayed the comedian from age 15 to 85. The show was later filmed for PBS in 2001. In 1982, [[Gabe Kaplan]] filmed a version of the same show, entitled ''Groucho''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Erickson|first=Hal|title=Gabe Kaplan As Groucho|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/19088/Gabe-Kaplan-As-Groucho/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521050325/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/19088/Gabe-Kaplan-As-Groucho/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 21, 2013|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|date=2013|access-date=July 11, 2012}}</ref>

In the Hungarian [[dubbing (filmmaking)|dubbed]] version of Woody Allen's film ''[[Annie Hall]]'', a famous quotation told by Alvy Singer (Allen) at the beginning of the film is not attributed to Groucho Marx as in the original, but to [[Buster Keaton]]. The reason was that in [[communism|communist]] Hungary, the name 'Marx' was associated with [[Karl Marx]], and the name was not allowed to be used in such a light, humorous context.<ref>{{cite web|title=Már 40 éve nem szeretnénk olyan klubhoz tartozni, amelyik elfogadna tagnak|url=https://hvg.hu/kultura/20170420_annie_hall_40_woody_allen_diane_keaton |website=hvg.hu|date=April 20, 2017 |access-date=December 18, 2019}}</ref>

Woody Allen's 1996 musical ''[[Everyone Says I Love You]]'', in addition to being named for one of Marx's signature songs, ends with a Groucho-themed New Year's Eve party in Paris, which some of the stars, including Allen and [[Goldie Hawn]], attend in full Groucho costume. The highlight of the scene is an ensemble song-and-dance performance of "Hooray for Captain Spaulding"—done entirely in French.

[[File:Mostra "Dylan Dog e motori, gioie e orrori" - panoramio (26).jpg|thumb|250px|[[Dylan Dog]] and his sidekick Groucho (left). Art by Luca Maresca]]

In 2008, ''Minnie's Boys'' was remounted Off-Broadway with [[Erik Liberman]] as Groucho and [[Pamela Myers]] as Minnie Marx.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gans|first=Andrew|date=May 16, 2008|title=Liberman Will Join Myers in Mufti Minnie's Boys|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/liberman-will-join-myers-in-mufti-minnies-boys-com-150192|access-date=October 21, 2020|website=Playbill|language=en}}</ref> Liberman later played Marx in a musical based on ''[[Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel]]'' called ''The Most Ridiculous Thing You Ever Hoid'' (2010) and at the Obama White House.<ref>{{Cite web|author=<!--Not stated-->|title=Erik Liberman To Star As Groucho In IN MOST RIDICULOUS THING YOU EVER HOID 9/31|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/Erik-Liberman-To-Star-As-Groucho-In-IN-MOST-RIDICULOUS-THING-YOU-EVER-HOID-931-20100818|access-date=October 21, 2020|website=Broadway World|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Markowitz|first=Joel|date=April 2, 2012|title=Erik Liberman on Playing The Baker in Centerstage's 'Into the Woods' by Joel Markowitz|url=https://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2012/04/02/erik-liberman-on-playing-the-baker-in-centerstages-into-the-woods-by-joel-markowitz/|access-date=October 21, 2020|website=DC Metro Theater Arts|language=en-US|archive-date=October 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023074400/https://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2012/04/02/erik-liberman-on-playing-the-baker-in-centerstages-into-the-woods-by-joel-markowitz/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Dylan Dog#Supporting characters|Groucho]], a supporting character in the Italian horror comics series ''[[Dylan Dog]]'', is a Groucho Marx impersonator whose character became his permanent personality, and he works with Dylan Dog as his professional sidekick. In the English-language version by [[Dark Horse Comics]], to avoid legal complications regarding Groucho Marx's estate, the art was altered so that Groucho no longer sports the Marx brother's signature moustache, and was renamed ''Felix''.<ref name=DylanDog>{{Cite web|url=https://comicvine.gamespot.com/groucho/4005-3936/|title=Groucho (character) |website=Comic Vine |date=July 20, 2020 |access-date=March 10, 2021}}</ref>

Throughout the [[M*A*S*H (TV series)|''M*A*S*H'' television series]], several Groucho homage traits are mirrored in [[Alan Alda]]'s portrayal of [[Hawkeye Pierce|Hawkeye]], including the 1972 season one episode "[[Yankee Doodle Doctor]]" that had a full Groucho impression complete with moustache, cigar and glasses.<ref>{{cite web |title=Episode Spotlight: Yankee Doodle Doctor |author=RJ |date=2014-10-06 |website=mash4077tv.com |url=https://www.mash4077tv.com/2014/10/episode-spotlight-yankee-doodle-doctor/ |access-date=2023-11-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210053539/https://www.mash4077tv.com/2014/10/episode-spotlight-yankee-doodle-doctor/ |archive-date=2022-12-10 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2023, notable artist [[William Kentridge]] included a drawing of Marx in his solo museum exhibition at [[The Broad]] in [[Los Angeles]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Amadour |date=2022-12-07 |title=15 Minutes With Visionary Artist William Kentridge |url=https://lamag.com/art/with-a-show-at-the-broad-artist-william-kentridge-talks-hollywood |access-date=2023-12-31 |website=LAmag - Culture, Food, Fashion, News & Los Angeles |language=en}}</ref>