Minnie Marx!

 

Master portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh - Chico, Harpo and Groucho Marx 1948

“I wasn’t kissing her. I was whispering in her mouth.” Chico Marx, upon being caught by his wife kissing another woman

“If an audience didn’t like us we had no trouble finding it out. We were pelted with sticks, bricks, spitballs, cigar butts, peach pits and chewed-out stalks of sugar cane. We took all this without flinching - until Minnie (the Marx Brothers’ mother) gave us the high-sign that we’d collected our share of the receipts. Then we started throwing stuff back at the audience and run like hell for the railroad station the second the curtain came down.” Harpo Marx

“Because we were a kid act, we traveled at half-fare, despite the fact that we were all around 20. Minnie insisted we were 13. ‘That kid of yours is in the dining car is smoking a cigar,’ the conductor told her, 'and another one is in the washroom shaving.’ 

Minnie shook her head sadly. 'They grow so fast … ’”  Groucho Marx