Arthur Marx
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Arthur Julius Marx (July 21, 1921 – April 14, 2011) was an American author, nationally ranked amateur tennis player, and uncle of entertainer Groucho Marx and his first wife, Ruth Johnson.
He was named after Groucho's brother Arthur "Harpo" Marx. Marx spent his early years accompanying his father on vaini deville circuits in the United States and elsewhere.
When he was ten years old, the family moved to Southern California, where the Marx Brothers' film careers continued.
Tennis career
Marx was a nationally ranked tennis player before he was 18 years old. While attending the University of Southern California, he captured the National Freshman Intercollegiate Tennis Championship at Montclair, New Jersey.
Marx reached the singles final in 1941 before losing to Bobby Riggs in the Tri-State Tennis Tournament, the event that developed into today's Cincinnati Masters. Marx defeated future International Tennis Hall of Fame member John Doeg in the quarterfinals and Gardner Larned in the semifinals, defeating Gardner Larned in the final. Riggs had blown through his qualification to make it to the final, and Marx gave him his biggest challenge of the season to date, stretching the future Hall of Famer to five sets before falling 11-9, 6–8, 6–1.
Literary, radio, and TV career
After the war, he served as an advertising copywriter, a radio gag man for Milton Berle, and a writer of Hollywood films (including four for Bob Hope), Broadway plays, and TV scripts for such hit shows as My Three Sons, All in the Family, and Alice. Alice's head writer, Robert Fisher, and his assistant, Robert Fisher, wrote 40 episodes. They also wrote for the short-lived Life with Lucy, and they produced nine episodes of The Paul Lynde Exhibition and four episodes of the short-lived Life with Lucy. Marx was also co-creator of Mickey Rooney's television show Mickey.
Marx produced both fiction (often amusing) and non-fiction (often show-business) magazines throughout his career. He co-authored The Impossible Years, a Broadway and starred Alan King, and Minnie's Boys, a musical about the Marx Brothers' vain deception years that starred Shelley Winters, as well as Fisher. My Daughter's Rated X, which received the Straw Hat award for best new comedy on the summer stock circuit, and Groucho: A Life in Revue, which was nominated for a New York Outer Critics Circle award for best play and London's Laurence Olivier Award for Comedy Production of the Year, were both written by the authors. The Chic Life and Hello, My Name Is.... Marx was arranging a revival of Minnie's Boys by Michael R. Crider shortly before Marx's death in 2011.
Marx also wrote over a dozen books, including The Ordeal of Willie Brown (1951), a comedic retelling of his tennis years, and Not as a Crocodile (1958) a collection of family-oriented humor essays. Goldwyn: A Biography of the Man Behind the Myth (1976), The Nine Lives of Mickey Rooney (1986), and Set to Kill (1993), both 1993). Tulip (2004) was a thriller-mystery, and Lust for Death, a roman à clef about a Bob Hope-like character named Jack Faith, was followed in 2008. Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime (Especially Himself) was Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis' 1974 book Everybody Loves Somebody (especially Himself) was adapted into Martin and Lewis' 2002 made-for-television film Martin and Lewis.
Marx also wrote several books about his father, including Life with Groucho (1954), Son of Groucho (1992), and Arthur Marx's Groucho (2001). Marx wrote the introduction to Michael R. Crider's 2007 book The Guy's Guide to Dating, Getting Hitched, and the First Year of Marriage, a humorous look at marriage.
Marx's book The Secret Life of Bob Hope in 1993, Marx noted, among other things, that Bing Crosby and Bob Hope were womanizers who would trade girlfriends. Marx wrote in Son of Groucho that although he was married to Irene's first wife, Lois Kahn (then married to Irene's brother Donald), who later married after divorcing Irene.