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2 wins & 1 nomination. See more awards » Photos A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies. Directors: Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding. Director: Victor Heerman Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley University, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin University. Director: Norman Z. McLeod On a transatlantic crossing, the Marx brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. Director: Norman Z. McLeod A veterinarian posing as a doctor, a race-horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open with the help of a misfit race-horse. Director: Sam Wood During the Florida land boom, the Marx brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.

Directors: Robert Florey, Joseph Santley Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx The Marx Brothers come to the rescue in the Wild West when a young man, trying to settle an old family feud so he can marry the girl he loves, runs afoul of crooks. Director: Edward Buzzell The Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job. Director: Edward Buzzell The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure. Director: Archie Mayo A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager. Director: Charles Reisner A penniless theatrical producer must outwit the hotel efficiency expert trying to evict him from his room, while securing a backer for his new play. Director: William A.

Seiter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8/10 X A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal giant gorilla who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition. Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack Stars: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot Edit Storyline The small state of Freedonia is in a financial mess, borrowing a huge sum of cash from wealthy widow Mrs. Teasdale. She insists on replacing the current president with crazy Rufus T. Firefly and mayhem erupts. To make matters worse, the neighboring state sends inept spies Chicolini and Pinky to obtain top secret information, creating even more chaos! Written by Col Needham <col@imdb.com> See All (155) » Taglines: War Is Swell ...when the Marx Brothers are in it.

They'll be out of the trenches by Christmas...if the food doesn't improve Genres: 17 November 1933 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording) Color: Groucho Marx attributed the film's strong satire on war to director Leo McCarey . See more » Goofs When they meet, Mrs. Teasdale holds Firefly's right hand while he holds the cigar with his left hand. The subsequent shot shows him holding the cigar with the right hand and the deck with the left one. See more » Quotes Rufus T. Firefly : I'll see you at the opera tonight. I'll hold your seat till you get there. After you get there you're on your own. (Boston, MA) – See all my reviews Duck Soup(1933) is the funniest and most entertaining comedy that I've seen in my life. It was the last film the Marx Brothers would do for Paramount before going over to MGM. Duck Soup is an anarchic comedy where the main characters never live by the rules and rebel as a result. The Marx Brothers put out some of the greatest comedies that rarely has been matched.

It is a satire about the nature of war, politics, and affairs of the state. Duck Soup(1933) is a great example of a film that can easily induce a person into bursts of laughter. 25 of 46 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Zeppo Marx (Herbert) - The Marx Brothers The Marx Brothers Support this site, shop here: Search: Born: February 25, 1901 Died: November 30, 1979 Zeppo was the youngest of the five brothers. As a boy he was constantly involved in fights, which unlike Harpo or Groucho, he would win. He had a reputation for being quite the hooligan. It's always been Marx legend that Zeppo was placed into the act so that Minnie could keep him out of trouble. He took over the straight man and romantic lead roles from older brother Gummo. He always seemed to be in the background, acting as a foil for Chico or Groucho.

According to a 1925 newspaper article, he also made a solo appearance in the Adolphe Menjou comedy A Kiss in the Dark, but no known copy of the film exists, and it is not clear if he actually appeared in the finished film. It always seemed to Zeppo that he stood in everyone else's shadow. He hated not being allowed to be a comedian on stage. According to his brothers he was the funniest of them all. Groucho is quoted as saying "When I had my appendix out, Zeppo took over for me. He was so good that it made me get better quicker". After Zeppo left the act, each film would have a Zeppo-like actor in it and none of them were as good at it as he was. Offstage Zeppo was reputed to be a mechanical wizard and would go through many careers in his lifetime. He got his start with machines early. When Gummo and Groucho bought a car (back in the early vaudeville days) it was Zeppo who kept it running. He also worked machining parts for the war effort during WWII, grew grapefruits, ran a theatrical agency with Gummo and he was a commercial fisherman.

Click here to read more about Zeppo's inventions . On 12 April 1927, Zeppo married Marion Benda. The couple would adopt two children, Timothy, in 1944 and Thomas. They divorced on 12 May 1954. On 18 September 1959, Zeppo married Barbara Blakeley, whose son, Bobby Oliver, he adopted and gave his surname. Zeppo and Blakely divorced in 1972 or 1973. Blakely later married singer Frank Sinatra. At the end of his life Zeppo found himself in the middle of the disputes around Groucho's estate. As the last surviving Marx Brother he was very involved in the court case. Zeppo died of lung cancer in 1979 at the age of 78. In recent years, a surge of adamant Zeppo supporters have risen to challenge the notion that he did not develop a comic persona in his films.

James Agee considered Zeppo "a peerlessly cheesy improvement on the traditional straight man." Along similar lines, Gerald Mast, in his book The Comic Mind: Comedy and Movies, notes that Zeppo's comedic persona, while certainly more subtle than his brothers', is undeniably present: "[He] added a fourth dimension as the clich� of the [romantic] juvenile, the bland wooden espouser of sentiments that seem to exist only in the world of the sound stage. [... He is] too schleppy, too nasal, and too wooden to be taken seriously" (282, 285). Danél Griffin, film critic for the University of Alaska Southeast, elaborates on Mast's theory: "Zeppo�s parts were always intended to be a parody of the juvenile role often found in sappy musicals of the 1920s-30s era. Sometimes, he would just have a few lines, and he would otherwise be reduced to standing in the background with a big smile on his face. In these roles, he was a lampoon of the infamous extra, always grinning widely as a needless decoration, and always stiff and wooden.

In other films, Zeppo would have a more significant role as the romantic lead, but he would still always be stiff, wooden, and, yes, with a big smile on his face. Either way, he could never be considered a real straight man. He was a sappy distortion of the real thing, and sort of the gateway through which we connected with the other Brothers. We perceived him as the normal, good-looking� one of the bunch, but was he really? Wasn�t there something about that line from The Cocoanuts, 'You can depend upon me, Mr. Hammer,' that was a little too ... happy? Roger Ebert called Zeppo 'superfluous,' and that is the point of his character in the six Paramount films. He was the straight man only in pure Marxian sense while his Brothers spat on movie clich�s, he imitated them, proving in his own way to be quite a brilliant comedian." ( Link ) In her book Hello, I Must be Going: Groucho & His Friends, Charlotte Chandler defends Zeppo as being "the Marx Brothers' interpreter in the worlds they invade. He is neither totally a straight man nor totally a comedian, but combines elements of both, as did Margaret Dumont.

Zeppo's importance to the Marx Brothers' initial success was as a Marx Brother who could 'pass' as a normal person. None of Zeppo's replacements (Allan Jones, Kenny Baker, and others) could assume this character as convincingly as Zeppo, because they were actors, and Zeppo was the real thing, cast to type" (562). In his book Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Sometimes Zeppo, Joe Adamson analyzes a scene in Animal Crackers that reveals Zeppo's uncanny ability to one-up Groucho with simple, plain-English rebuttals - something no one else has ever done before or since in a Marx Brother movie. In the said scene, Zeppo is told to take a letter to Groucho's lawyer. Adamson notes, "There is a common assumption that Zeppo = Zero, which this scene does its best to contradict. Groucho dictating a letter to anybody else would hardly be cause for rejoicing. We have to believe that someone will be there to accept all his absurdities and even respond somewhat in kind before things can progress free from conflict into this genial mishmash.

Groucho clears his throat in the midst of his dictation, and Zeppo asks him if he wants that in the letter. Groucho says, 'No, put it in the envelope.' Zeppo nods. And only Zeppo could even try such a thing as taking down the heading and the salutation and leaving out the letter because it didn't sound important to him. It takes a Marx Brother to pull something like that on a Marx Brother and get away with it." (114) Allen W. Ellis writes in his article Yes, Sir: The Legacy of Zeppo Marx (The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2003): "Indeed, Zeppo is a link between the audience and Groucho, Harpo and Chico. In a sense, he is us on the screen. He knows who those guys are and what they are capable of. As he ambles out of a scene, perhaps it is to watch them do their business, to come back in as necessary to move the film along, and again to join in the celebration of the finish. Further, Zeppo is crucial to the absurdity of the Paramount films. The humor is in his incongruity.

Typically he dresses like a normal person, in stark contrast to Groucho's greasepaint and 'formal' attire, Harpo's rags, and Chico's immigrant hand-me-downs. By most accounts, he is the handsomest of the brothers, yet that handsomeness is distorted by his familial resemblance to the others � sure, he's handsome, but it is a decidedly peculiar, Marxian handsomeness. By making the group four, Zeppo adds symmetry, and in the surrealistic worlds of the Paramount films, this symmetry upsets rather than confirms balance: it is chaos born of symmetry. That he is a plank in a maelstrom, along with the very concept of 'this guy' who is there for no real reason, who joins in and is accepted by these other three wildmen while the narrative offers no explanation, are wonderful in their pure absurdity. 'To string things together in a seemingly purposeless way,' said Mark Twain, 'and to be seemingly unaware that they are absurd, is the mark of American humor.' The 'sense' injected into the nonsense only compounds the nonsense" (21-22).

(some information in this biography taken from Wikipedia) Zeppo Marx appeared in the following movies: Film Title Marx Brothers Movies - Ultimate Movie Rankings Ultimate Movie Rankings Where Movies Come to Get Ranked Menu Marx Brothers Movies The Marx Brothers in 1935’s Duck Soup. Want to know the best Marx Brothers movies? How about the worst Marx Brothers movies? Curious about Marx Brothers box office grosses or which Marx Brothers movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Marx Brothers movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information. The Marx Brothers were a family comedy act that was successful in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in motion pictures from 1905 to 1949. 5 of the Marx Brothers’ 13 feature films were selected by the American Film Institute (AFI) as among the top 100 comedy films. Their movies Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera are both in the AFI’s top 12 comedy movies.

One of our goals here at Ultimate Movie Rankings is do a career movie page on every member of the American Film Institute’s Top 50 Greatest Screen Legends list. Marx Brothers are ranked as the 20th greatest screen legends on that list. This page ranks 14 movies in which at least 3 Marx brothers appeared in as well as 4 Groucho Marx movies. The movies are ranked from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Following the movie ranking table is a “Know your Marx brother” section as well as links to the our AFI Screen Legend movie pages. The Marx Brothers in 1938’s Room Service. Marx Brothers Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want. Sort Marx Brothers movies by which Marx Brother starred in the movie Sort Marx Brothers movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions) Sort Marx Brothers by yearly domestic box office rank Sort Marx Brothers movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.

Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Marx Brothers movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Marx Brothers movie won. Sort Marx Brothers movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score. Use the search and sort button to make this page very interactive. Rank Box Office Rank by Year Critic Audience Rating Night At The Opera, A (1935) Groucho,Chico & Harpo Day At The Races, A (1937) Groucho,Chico & Harpo Night in Casablanca, A (1946) Groucho,Chico & Harpo Girl In Every Port, A (1952) Groucho Story of Mankind, The (1957) Groucho,Chico & Harpo 22.39 Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Marx Brothers Table Seven Marx Brothers movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 41.11% of their movies listed.

A Day At The Races (1937) was their biggest box office ht when looking at adjusted domestic box office gross. An average Marx Brothers movie grosses $83.70 million in adjusted box office gross. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 13 of Marx Brothers’ movies are rated as good movies…or 72.22% of their movies. A Night At The Opera (1935) is their highest rated movie while The Story of Mankind (1957) was their lowest rated movie. One Marx Brothers movie (A Day At The Races) received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 5.55% of their movies. Zero Marx Brothers movie won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 0.00% of their movies. An average Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 40.00. 12 Marx Brothers movies scored higher than that average….or 66.66% of their movies. A Day At The Races (1937) got the the highest UMR Score while The Story of Mankind (1957) got the lowest UMR Score.

Zeppo, Groucho, Harp and Chico Marx in 1932’s Horse Feathers Know Your Marx Brother Chico Marx 1887-1961 Chico Marx was born Leonard Marx. Originally his nickname was Chick-O but due to a typing error he became Chico. Chico was actually the 2nd Marx brother to be born. His older brother (Manfred) died in infancy. His persona in the act was that of a charming, dim-witted albeit crafty con artist. After their mother passed away, Chico became the manager of the brothers. He played an important role in the management and development of the act. He was married two times and had one child. Chico loved to gamble. His favorite gambling pursuits were card games as well as horse racing, dog racing, and various sports betting. His addiction cost him millions of dollars by his own account. When an interviewer in the late 1930s asked him how much money he had lost from gambling, he answered, “Find out how much money Harpo’s got. That’s how much I’ve lost.” Harpo Marx 1888-1964 Harpo Marx was born Arthur Marx.

He was a mime artist and musician, and the second-oldest of the Marx Brothers. His comic style was influenced by clown and pantomime traditions. He wore a curly reddish blonde wig, and never spoke during performances (he blew a horn or whistled to communicate). He frequently used props such as a horn cane, made up of a lead pipe, tape, and a bulbhorn, and he played the harp in most of his films. So why did Harpo never speak? Early in his vaudeville days he got a bad review. The review said his pantomime was excellent…but when he talked he ruined the performance. So he decided to stop speaking….and the Marx Brothers quickly realized that his not speaking worked very well in their act. He was married one time and had 4 children. Groucho Marx 1890-1977 Groucho Marx was born Julius Henry Marx. He was known as a master of quick wit. His rapid-fire, often impromptu delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers and imitators.

His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture, glasses, cigar, and a thick greasepaint mustache and eyebrows. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show You Bet Your Life. The Marx Brothers’ movies did not get much Oscar® love (their movies combined for only ONE nomination) ….but they did give Groucho an Honorary Oscar® in 1974. His Oscar® reads…. “In recognition of his brilliant creativity and for the unequaled achievements of the Marx Brothers in the art of motion picture comedy”. He was married three times and had three children. Zeppo Marx 1901-1979 Zeppo Marx was born Herbert Marx. He was the youngest of The Marx Brothers, Zeppo was put into the role of the straight man after his brother Gummo (the other brother) left the act. Zeppo also acted as an understudy to all three of his brothers. After playing small parts in the first five Marx Brothers movies, Zeppo felt his talent wasn’t being used to its full extent and left the act to join Gummo as an agent.

Somewhat of a mechanical whiz, Zeppo invented a wristwatch that would monitor the pulse rate of cardiac patients, and his company, Marman Products, produced clamping devices which were used in the first atomic bomb raids over Japan in 1945. Zeppo was married twice and had one child. Gummo Marx (1892-1977) was the 4th brother. He left the Marx Brothers just when they were reaching popularity because he felt he lacked the performing skills of his brothers. He became a well respected agent.

More Marx Brothers Movie Stats A Day At The Races….Worldwide Adjusted Box Office $298.80 million A Night At The Opera….Worldwide Adjusted Box Office $182.80 million Go West……Worldwide Adjusted Box Office $121.10 million At The Circus….Worldwide Adjusted Box Office $102.70 million The Big Store….Worldwide Adjusted Box Office $127.60 million Room Service….Worldwide Adjusted Box Office $109.10 million The Story of Mankind…Worldwide Adjusted Box Office $17.50 million Marx Brothers Financials Directly From MGM/RKO Ledgers 1935-1941 The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

Column 1 is the name of the movie Column 2 is the name of the studio Column 3 is the domestic rental total Column 4 is the international rental total Column 5 is the total of domestic and international rentals Column 6 is the profit or loss in dollars of the movie Coulmn 7 is the profit margin % Rank $33,000 4.00% Check out the Marx Brothers career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time . Another outstanding Marx Brothers tribute page to check out is Steve Lensman’s The Marx Brothers- On The Screen . That page has posters and classic quotes from their movies. AFI’s Top 25 Screen Legend Actors….with links to our movie pages on the Screen Legend 1. Humphrey Bogart 58 Movies Ranked….from Casablanca (1942) to Swing Your Lady (1938) 2. Cary Grant 58 Movies Ranked… from North by Northwest (1959) to Born To Be Bad (1934) 3. James Stewart 73 Movies Ranked Mr.

Smith Goes to Washington(1939) to Big Sleep(1978) 4. Marlon Brando 37 Movies Ranked….from The Godfather (1972) to Christopher Columbus (1992) 5. Fred Astaire 39 Movies Ranked The Towering Inferno (1974) to The Amazing Dobermans (1976) 6. Henry Fonda 81 Movies Ranked… On Golden Pond (1981) to City on Fire (1979) 7. Clark Gable 63 Movies Ranked….from Gone With The Wind (1939) to Parnell (1937) 8. James Cagney 61 Movies Ranked….from Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) to Boy Meets Girl (1938) 9. Spencer Tracy 53 Movies Ranked….from Boy’s Town (1938) to Up the River (1930) 10. Charles Chaplin 12 Movies Ranked….from The Kid (1921) to A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) 11.

Gary Cooper 67 Movies Ranked….from Sergeant York (1941) to Fighting Caravans (1931) 12. Gregory Peck 53 Movies Ranked To Kill a Mockingbird(1962) to Amazing Grace & Chuck(1987) 13. John Wayne 83 Movies Ranked….from True Grit (1969) to Brannigan (1975) 14. Laurence Olivier 48 Movies Ranked….from Rebecca (1940) to Inchon (1982) 15. Gene Kelly 40 Movies Ranked….from Anchors Aweigh (1945) to Viva Knievel! (1977) 16. Orson Welles 75 Movies Ranked….from Citizen Kane (1941) to Treasure Island (1972) 17. Kirk Douglas 71 Movies Ranked….from Spartacus (1960) to Diamonds (1999) 18.

James Dean 3 Movies Ranked….from East of Eden (1955) to Giant (1956) 19. Burt Lancaster 67 Movies Ranked From Here to Eternity (1953) to Executive Action (1973) 20. Marx Brothers 18 Movies Ranked….from Horse Feathers (1932) to The Story of Mankind (1957) 21. Buster Keaton 28 Movies Ranked….from The Cameraman (1928) to The Intruder (1936) 22. Sidney Poitier 46 Movies Ranked….from In the Heat of the Night (1967) to Fast Forward (1985) 23. Robert Mitchum 83 Movies Ranked….from The Longest Day (1962) to Matilda (1978) 24. Edward G. Robinson 67 Movies Ranked 10 Commandments(1956) to BiggestBundleofAll(1968) 25.

William Holden 66 Movies Ranked….from The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) to Ashanti (1979) For comments….all you need is a name and a comment….please ignore the rest. Academy Award® and Oscar® are the registered trademarks of the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences. [hits] Page Views Chico Marx | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie twitter Biography by Hal Erickson The second son of German/Alsatian immigrants Sam and Minnie Marx (the first son, Manfred, died in infancy), comedian Leonard "Chico" Marx was the oldest of the five siblings who would become internationally famous as The Marx Brothers . But when mother Minnie first organized younger brothers Groucho, Harpo and Gummo into a singing vaudeville act, Chico chose to go it alone as a free-lance pianist in orchestras, saloons, and "bawdy houses." Though a limited musician, Marx learned early on how to keep an audience enthralled. When Chico joined his brothers in a "schoolroom" act, he drew upon his expertise with dialects by playing a comic Italian.

After their Broadway debut in 1924's I'll Say She Is, the Four Marx Brothers (Zeppo had replaced Gummo) were a big-money act. After their 1937 film A Day at the Races , the Brothers considered retiring from movies, but Chico's financial difficulties were a major factor in their decision to remain active. During the war years, Chico headed his own orchestra, and in the '50s he would pay his bills by headlining state fairs and other such barnstorming endeavors with his brother Harpo. In 1950, Chico made his dramatic TV debut in the half-hour Papa Romani . He was also a regular on the 1950 variety series College Bowl, and appeared briefly as an Italian monk in the Irwin Allen all-star film The Story of Mankind (1957) (Groucho and Harpo also showed up in separate sequences).

Chico Marx 's final professional appearance was with Harpo and (briefly) Groucho in the 1959 GE Theatre entry "The Incredible Jewel Robbery." Chico's daughter Maxine Marx was a prominent actor's agent, and briefly the wife of animated cartoon director Shamus Culhane . Movie Highlights The Marx Brothers - IMDb IMDb Doctor Strange Confirmed to Appear in ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ 16 hours ago Actor | Soundtrack The Marx Brothers, Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo are a group of actors known for Duck Soup (1933), Animal Crackers (1930) Horse Feathers (1932) A Night in Casablanca (1946) A Day at the Races (1937) and A Night at the Opera (1935). They began their careers in Vaudeville, before becoming stars in the movies.

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(performer: "Hooray For Captain Spaulding" - uncredited) 1938 Room Service (performer: "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (circa 1872) - uncredited) Hide 2009 A Day on the Asteroid (dedicated to the memory of) Hide Personal Details Other Works: They performed in the play, "I'll Say She is, "at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio. See more » Publicity Listings: 4 Biographical Movies | 15 Print Biographies | 2 Articles | 1 Magazine Cover Photo | See more » Alternate Names: Did You Know? Trivia: In 1971, the Mariner 9 spacecraft arrived in orbit around Mars - to find it entirely engulfed in a planet-wide dust storm. The only features clearly visible were four dark spots (now known to correspond to the Tharsis volcanoes and Olympus Mons). Carl Sagan was so fascinated by these that his colleagues at Cornell University jokingly called them "Carl's Marks"; Sagan, in his turn, nicknamed the ...

See more » Message Boards Harpo Marx (Adolph/Arthur) - The Marx Brothers The Marx Brothers Support this site, shop here: Search: Born: November 23, 1888 in New York City, NY Died: September 28, 1964 in Los Angeles Drawing by Salvador Dali from an article in Theatre Arts Monthly, October 1939 Harpo was the second oldest and the one who never spoke. Not entirely true. He spoke quite regularly on stage until the production of "Home Again". Les Marsden had some more information about Harpo's 'speaking career': "He still had a about six lines in "Home Again", but uncle Al Shean simply didn't think he delivered lines all that well. Harpo was so upset that after they had toured the show in vaudeville for awhile and were playing (according to Harpo) the theatre in Champaign, Illinois, Harpo decided to ad-lib all through the performance. A critic in the local newspaper described the show by saying, in part, "Adolph Marx performed beautiful pantomime which was ruined whenever he spoke." Harpo then decided he could do a better job of stealing focus by not speaking.

And he really did continue to speak on stage regularly - just whenever he felt like it. For example, on opening night of 'Animal Crackers' he tackled Margaret Irving and proceeded to tell her a well....let's just say a questionable joke. Groucho, Chico and Zeppo came out onstage and did a running commentary. But he did speak extemporaneously onstage on occasion. Just not from a script and not often. Steve Allen has told me (and has also recounted the tale in various books, etc) all about the evening Harpo left show business during Allen Sherman's show in Pasadena, during which he spoke for several minutes to a stunned audience." Harpo was given the name Adolph, but changed it to Arthur during World War I because it was too 'German'. Through Alexander Woollcott the theater critic, who was responsible for their first big success in New York, Harpo became a member of the Algonquin Round Table. In 1936 he married actress Susan Fleming. They adopted four children Bill, Alex, Jimmy and Minnie. Harpo on I Love Lucy Harpo speaks Harpo never spoke in a movie, but his voice has been recorded, as you can hear here.

"Harpo's harps" by Les Marsden "Harpo rarely played the same harp twice in a movie, and in some movies didn't play a harp at all (Go West harp is actually a loom, At the Races is the dismantled frame of a grand piano, and Duck Soup....well, we all know about that one.) They were usually his own harps but he changed models a lot, particularly in the early years. Eventually, he owned two Lyon & Healy Gold-Gilt Concert Grands, model #24. He had those two harps for years and shortly after his death, Susan was asked to judge a harp competition in Israel. She insisted that Bill come along as well because she knew nothing about the mechanics of harpistry. They both decided to take the two harps along and donate them to two university harp departments in Israel, with the only proviso being that they were not to go in glass cases, but instead were to be used. Upon arrival in Israel, the customs agents demanded a 100% duty payment from Susan and she said 'what?

I'm trying to donate these harps to you!' and was ready (as she told me) to get back on the plane and take the damn harps back home when a governmental official broke through and announced that they'd be happy to take the harps for free! I've heard from other sources that the harps were marked as Harpo's with small plaques but that they indeed were (and hopefully still are) used as Susan intended." © Les Marsden, 1998 Susan Marx Susan Marx died in December 2002. Here is a news item about her: Susan Marx died shortly before midnight Sunday [22 Dec 2002] at Eisenhower Medical Center after suffering a massive heart attack. She was 94. Her son, pianist Bill Marx, was at her bedside just hours after concluding a talk about his father in a benefit for the Jewish Community School with a rendition of "Sunrise Sunset." Bill Marx said there were three phases of his mother's life: her early show biz life as Susan Fleming, her personal life as Mrs. Harpo Marx, and her life of public service as Susan Marx.

Born in Brooklyn, she started her career as a stage actress, working her way up to the top musical revue on Broadway, "The Ziegfeld Follies," in the 1920s. She followed the opportunities to Hollywood in 1931 when she appeared as John Wayne's love interest in "Range Feud." As a Paramount actress, she actually made more movies than the Marx Brothers, with her peak coming in the 1932 comedy "Million Dollar Legs" with W.C. Fields. Her best friend, Gloria Stuart, co-star in the blockbuster film "Titanic," remembered she got a big Hollywood buildup for that film. "The publicity was, she was Susan Fleming with the million-dollar legs," Stuart recalled. "She starred, and her legs were insured for a million dollars." But Bill Marx said his mother hated the movie business. When she met Harpo Marx at Paramount, she courted him -- even proposing to the silent Marx Brothers comedian three times. She and Harpo adopted four children. She began studies to enrich her life with Stuart, whose husband wrote for the Marx Brothers. They studied cooking, stamp collecting and Bonsai tree-shaping.

"She was very forthright, certainly beautifully centered," Stuart said. "When she took up one of her various interests, it was always 100 percent." Susan Marx is survived by her four children, Bill of Rancho Mirage, Alexander of Vallejo, Jim of Paso Robles and Minnie Eagle of Orange. She had five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Harpo Marx appeared in the following movies: Film Title

Question: Of the five Marx brothers who appeared on film, who was the oldest ?
Answer: CHICO