Here is a way-too-adorable-for-words clip of Groucho Marx and his youngest child Melinda performing a Gilbert and Sullivan duet on ‘You Bet Your Life’ from 1954. The song is ‘There Is Beauty In The Belly Of The Beast’ from ‘The Mikado’. I’ve never cared for G&S until watching this clip and if I never see any more G&S this performance will have been enough. By the way, a reader told me (apropos of yesterday’s post which featured an older singing Melinda Marx) that she hasn’t publicly discussed her father since his death in 1977. That in itself is saying something, though I’m not sure in which direction it’s pointing…