Groucho Marx’s former home in Hollywood Hills West fetches $3.81 million

A Hollywood Hills West residence where film comic Groucho Marx once lived has sold again, this time for $3.81 million. It had previously changed hands 11 months ago for about 10% less, $3.45 million, records show.

The seller, a San Francisco-based technology investor, lightly updated the corner-lot traditional in the Hollywood Regency style after acquiring it last November. It had been renovated and expanded by the previous owner.

Built in 1935, the handsome two-story sits behind fences and gates and has a brick walkway leading to the front door. A trio of dormers line the sloping roofline, which extends over the covered front porch.

Within about 3,700 square feet of interior space is a formal living room, dining room, den/library and a wet bar. The center-island kitchen opens to a family room with a wall of built-ins. A writer’s nook sits off the master suite. There are four bedrooms, four bathrooms and a powder room.

Outdoors, there’s a brick-rimmed swimming pool with a raised spa. A shower room with a sauna sits near the pool. Lawns and hedges complete the roughly 10,000-square-foot lot.

Juliet Zacarias of Sotheby’s International Realty was the listing agent. Jason Woodruff of Keller Williams Realty represented the buyer.

Marx, whose scores of credits included “Duck Soup� (1933), “Animal Crackers� (1930) and TV’s “You Bet Your Life� in the 1950s, bought the property in 1946 and owned it for about three years. Celebrated horror film producer Irwin Yablans, known for the “Halloween� films, is another former owner.

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