For the MGM film producer and screenwriter, see Samuel Marx. Samuel Marx, born Simon Marrix (1861 - May 10, 1933), was a vaudeville performer, husband of Minnie Marx, and father of the Marx Brothers.
He was born in Alsace, and he died on May 10, 1933 in Los Angeles, California[1]. He was a talented cooker, oftenly convincing the landlord to delay their rent paytime with a good meal[2]. In his show An Evening With Groucho, Groucho remembers about Sam Marx[3]:
"My father was a tailor, and a very bad one, and Chico was always short of money, and he used to hock my fathers shears, so whenever my father made a suit, of course it didn't fit, and the shears would be hanging up in the pawnshop on Ninety-first Street."
In his last interview, Zeppo also told[4]:
"My father was a very bad tailor but he found some people who were so stupid that they would buy his clothes, and so he'd make a few dollars that way for food."
Sam Marx did a cameo appearance at the end of his four sons' film Monkey Business (1931), sitting on top of luggage behind the Brothers on the pier as they wave to the First Mate, the boys having slipped off the boat without being arrested as stowaways.
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