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As myths and legends from the years of golf in the desert go, this one is a doozy. Did Harpo Marx, one of the members of the ...
Arthur "Harpo" Marx's name change took place long before the world had heard of an Austrian named Adolf Hitler. David Mikkelson Published Nov. 12, 2000 ...
"Harpo's actions I choose to take queerly," he says of a scene from the Marx Brothers' first surviving film, 1929's "The Cocoanuts." "Don't accuse me of outing anybody! I've never outed anyone in ...
When Salvador Dalí met Harpo Marx, he was so infatuated that he wrote a treatment for a surreal Marx Brothers film, Giraffes on Horseback Salad. The film didn't fly, but this graphic novel does.
In an utter rarity, Harpo spoke onstage to Riverside Symphony audiences in 1961 and 1964 during guest appearances, columnist and Marx Brothers fan David Allen reports.
‘Giraffes on Horseback Salad’ by Josh Frank. When Harpo Marx met Salvador Dalí, it was kismet, as Josh Frank reports in Giraffes on Horseback Salad, his diverting graphic novel about the pair’s 1937 ...
On April 4, 1941, on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer letterhead, Harpo Marx broke his famous silence, writing U.S. Minister to Portugal Bert Fish about his aunt’s “very worthy case” to solicit his ...
She put the harp in the middle of the bar and played Hindemith, Faure, Salzedo – and Harpo Marx. “A couple of times it was 30 to 40 degrees below zero,” McLaughlin remembered.
Full disclosure: The memoir rekindles a teenage crush I had on Susan Marx. As a budding Marx Brothers obsessive in the 1970s, I was introduced to her in her husband’s autobiography, “Harpo ...