Eden Hartford | |
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Groucho Marx and Eden Hartford
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Born |
Edna Marie Higgins April 10, 1930 Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
Died | December 15, 1983 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
(aged 53)
Years active | 1957–83 |
Spouse(s) | Groucho Marx (m. 1954; div. 1969) |
Relatives | Dee Hartford (sister) |
Eden Hartford (April 10, 1930 – December 15, 1983) was an American film actress from 1957–62. She was born to Edgar (1884-1975) & Beatrice Higgins (1894-?) in Utah as Edna Marie Higgins. Her elder sister is actress Dee Hartford. She was of the Mormon faith.
She died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California in 1983, aged 53, from 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.