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Samuel Marx, born Simon Marrix (1861 - May 10, 1933), was the husband of Minnie Marx
Minnie Marx

Minnie Sch?nberg Marx , born in Dornum, East Frisia, then a part of the Kingdom of Hanover, was the mother and manager for the Marx Brothers, wife of Sam Marx, and the sister of vaudeville star Al Shean....
, and father of the Marx Brothers
Marx Brothers

The Marx Brothers were a popular team of sibling comedians who appeared in vaudeville, stage plays, film, and television....
.

He was born in Alsace
Alsace

Alsace is the fourth-smallest of the 26 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the sixth-most densely populated region in France , with 222 inhabitants per km? ....
, (now in France) and he died on May 10, 1933 in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
. He met Minnie in New York where he was working as a dance teacher. They married in 1884 and had 6 sons. Their first son, Manfred, born 1885, died in infancy. The other children were born in 1887, Chico, 1888, Harpo, 1890, Groucho, 1892, Gummo and 1901, Zeppo.






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Samuel Marx, born Simon Marrix (1861 - May 10, 1933), was the husband of Minnie Marx
Minnie Marx

Minnie Sch?nberg Marx , born in Dornum, East Frisia, then a part of the Kingdom of Hanover, was the mother and manager for the Marx Brothers, wife of Sam Marx, and the sister of vaudeville star Al Shean....
, and father of the Marx Brothers
Marx Brothers

The Marx Brothers were a popular team of sibling comedians who appeared in vaudeville, stage plays, film, and television....
.

He was born in Alsace
Alsace

Alsace is the fourth-smallest of the 26 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the sixth-most densely populated region in France , with 222 inhabitants per km? ....
, (now in France) and he died on May 10, 1933 in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
. He met Minnie in New York where he was working as a dance teacher. They married in 1884 and had 6 sons. Their first son, Manfred, born 1885, died in infancy. The other children were born in 1887, Chico, 1888, Harpo, 1890, Groucho, 1892, Gummo and 1901, Zeppo. Sam became a tailor, although not a very good one. He was a talented cook, often convincing the landlord to delay their rent paytime with a good meal. In his show An Evening With Groucho, Groucho
Groucho Marx

Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx , was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers and also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game shows You Bet Your Life and Tell it to Groucho....
 reminisces about Sam Marx:
"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
Zeppo Marx

Herbert Manfred Marx is best known as Zeppo Marx, the name he used when he performed with his brothers, The Marx Brothers....
 also told:
"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
Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television....
 in his four sons' film Monkey Business
Monkey Business (1931 film)

Monkey Business is the third of the Marx Brothers' movies and the first not to be an adaptation of one of their Broadway theatre shows. The film stars the four brothers: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, and Zeppo Marx, and screen comedienne Thelma Todd....
 (1931
1931 in film

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), sitting on top of luggage behind the brothers on the pier as they wave to the First Officer, the boys having slipped off the ship without being arrested as stowaways.

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