Groucho Marx is sitting at dinner in London in 1964 when his host, the poet and critic T.S. Eliot, asks him to do the quippy, pun-filled speech from the trial scene in his 1933 film “Duck Soup.” ...

Just listening. For Christmas in 1973, he got me a double album of Groucho Marx in live shows performed when he was 82. My father and I had gone that summer to see all the Marx Brothers movies in ...