Groucho Marx

Julius Henry Marx , known professionally as Groucho Marx, was an American comedian and film and television star. He was known as a master of quick wit and is widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rapidfire, often impromptu delivery of innuendoladen patter earned him many admirers and imitators.

Marx stated that he was born in a room above a butchers shop on East 78th Street in New York City, Between Lexington amp 3rd, as told to Dick Cavett in a 1969 television interview. The Marx children grew up on East 93rd Street off Lexington Avenue in a neighborhood now known as Carnegie Hill on the Upper East Side of the borough of Manhattan, in New York City. The turnofthecentury building that his brother Harpo called the first real home they ever knew was populated with European immigrants, mostly artisans. Just across the street were the oldest brownstones in the area, owned by people such as the wellconnected Loew Brothers and William Orth. The Marx family lived at this location for aboutyears, Groucho also told Cavett.

Source: Wikipedia