A few years ago, I thought I would share with my kids — roughly age 4 at the time — one of my favorite movie scenes. I found it on YouTube, hit the play button, and proceeded (as was not my plan) to ...

Between the greasepaint mustache and the perfect one-liner, Groucho Marx lived where jokes are made, not just told. Backstage, he was equal parts ringleadera and craftsman: marking scripts, riffing ...

Frank Ferrante describes himself as a new vaudevillian: Just like the performers of the past, he’s on the road every year, performing his one-man show, “An Evening With Groucho,” in which he channels ...

Frank Ferrante does a Groucho Marx so convincing he doesn’t even rehearse his show anymore; it’s all ad-libbed. And while Ferrante does incorporate some classic lines into An Evening with Groucho, his ...

Frank Ferrante has been playing Groucho Marx for more than 35 years, but he is much more than an impersonator. He is a serious actor and a true student of both the history of comedy and its ...

An audio version of this interview ran on the APM radio program, "The Story," and is excerpted here as part of Salon's partnership with the show. To listen to the audio interview, click here. Groucho ...

Groucho Marx has been dead since 1977, but to hear his grandson talk about him, one can imagine a smile on his face, those remarkable eyebrows raising “He and I became very close in his later years,” ...

This Halloween, whether you attend an all-out costume party or stay home waiting for the neighborhood trick-or-treaters, you’re almost guaranteed to see a Groucho Marx mask. It may not be the most ...