Entering the Kingdom of Heaven

Learning to say, "I’m one of God’s beloved oddballs, just like everybody else."

Julius Henry Marx was born in a room above a butcher shop on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on October 2, 1890. You may know him as the late Groucho Marx.

On stage and screen, Groucho wore a greasepaint mustache and eyebrows, glasses, and a cigar, and adopted an exaggerated, loping stride. Without the costume and the goofy walk, he may have been able t…