Eden Hartford


Eden Hartford was an American film actress from 1957–62.
She is best known as the third wife of comedian Groucho Marx.
She was born to Edgar and Beatrice Higgins in Utah as Edna Marie Higgins. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her elder sister is actress Dee Hartford, who was married to film director Howard Hawks.

Death

She died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California in 1983, aged 53, from endometrial cancer. Before her death she had been living in Palm Springs, California. She was married to Groucho Marx from 1954 until their divorce in 1969, but had no children. Hartford's ashes are interred in a small niche at Westwood Memorial Cemetery, with her former married name of 'Marx' on her epitaph.