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.” ...

Q: How would you explain Groucho Marx to someone who has never heard of him? A: To me, he was the face of American comedy. The greatest at combining verbal and physical humor. It was a 72-year-old ...