It’s not every day you can land a beautiful beach town home once owned by a Hollywood screen legend who likely loved the home as much as you ever will.
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That’s the case with iconic comedian Groucho Marx and his Great Neck, Long Island former home which is now for sale for $2.3 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The home, flavored in a colonial and Tudor architectural style blend, was originally purchased by Marx in 1926 when he and his brothers were storming Broadway stages as the soon-to-be-famous Marx Brothers comedy team.
Marx owned the home until 1931 when the Hollywood clarion call rang out and he moved to Southern California entertainment capital where he began headlining classic comedy films, like “Duck Soup”, “Monkey Business” and “Animal Crackers”, among others.
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The home is located in Great Neck, idyllically located on a peninsula between Manhasset Bay and Little Neck Bay adjacent to Long Island Sound.
There, Marx bought the home for $27,000, worth about $465,000 in 2023 dollars.
As The Journal points out, Marx had grown up in New York City and was more accustomed to urban living than in a sleepy Long Island village in an expansive five-bedroom 3,800 square foot house.
He once said of the suburban lifestyle, “I am becoming well versed in the four topics of conversation, which are of paramount importance in a small community, i.e., domestic help, golf, bridge, and the trappings of mice. If these were listed in the order of their interest, mice would be leading the suburban league with domestic help as a snappy second.”
Yet Marx would come to love the home, so much so, he once revisited the property after selling it and was “very witty” during a tour of the revamped residence, a member of the previous owner’s family told The Journal.
At $2.3 million, the home is costly but can you really put a price on a home once regularly duck-walked by the famed Groucho Marx?
After all, he might visit again and lend a ghostly, but charming, presence for the new owner’s next viewing of “Animal Crackers.”
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