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Arthur "Harpo" Marx (born Adolph Marx; [1] November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964) was an American comedian and harpist, and the second-oldest of the Marx Brothers. [1] In contrast to the mainly verbal comedy of his brothers Groucho and Chico , Harpo's comic style was visual, being an example of vaudeville , clown and pantomime traditions.
Presumably Harpo but you can't be sure from this mess of a sentence. It could easily have been Kaufman or Hart. Harpo certainly did play "Banjo" at one point and, yes, he spoke! Please fix this! And you might also add citations! Ed 15:40, 18 January 2009 (UTC) Why is Harpo's d.o.b. listed as 1893 in 'Harpo Speaks' but 1888 on Wiki?
The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act that was successful in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in 14 motion pictures from 1905 to 1949.Five of the Marx Brothers' fourteen feature films were selected by the American Film Institute (AFI) as among the top 100 comedy films, with two of them, Duck Soup (1933) and A Night at the Opera (1935), in the top fifteen.
The group that would become the Round Table began meeting in June 1919 as the result of a practical joke carried out by theatrical press agent John Peter Toohey.Toohey, annoyed at The New York Times drama critic Alexander Woollcott for refusing to plug one of Toohey's clients (Eugene O'Neill) in his column, organized a luncheon supposedly to welcome Woollcott back from World War I, where he ...
I never said that." [21] Marx's 1976 memoir recounts the episode as fact, [22] but co-writer Hector Arce relied mostly on sources other than Marx himself—who was by then in his late eighties and mentally compromised—and was probably unaware that Marx had specifically denied speaking the legendary line. [23]
The opposite was true of Harpo, who reportedly could play only two tunes on the piano, which typically thwarted Chico's scam and resulted in both brothers being fired. The Marx Brothers, from top: Chico, Harpo, Groucho, and Zeppo Marx. Groucho Marx once said that Chico never practiced the pieces he played.
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Harpo and Chico in a scene from the program (Chico became ill and later died on October 11, 1961) "The Incredible Jewel Robbery" was an episode of General Electric Theater, broadcast by CBS on March 8, 1959. It was the first appearance of the three Marx Brothers together in the same scene since A Night in Casablanca in 1946.