Wayne Koestenbaum has set himself a deliberately quixotic task: to explicate the work of the most famous silent comedian of the post-silent era using nothing but words, and the occasional photograph.

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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 attempt to collaborate on a movie of the same ...

The final Marx Brothers film generally is considered to be “Love Happy.” Premiering in San Francisco in 1949, it was released throughout the U.S. 65 years ago this past March. Since Groucho, Chico and ...

The 1955 episodes have been colorized and seamlessly blended into one hour-long special, which finds Lucy trying to fool her visiting New York friend Caroline Appleby into believing she really knows ...

This stand-alone photo appeared in the Jan. 13, 1954 Los Angeles Times. The caption reported, “Children of Harpo, the silent Marx brother, don wigs and demonstrate that they too have the happy gift of ...

"Long ago, someone told Harpo to shut up"%E2%80%94but why did he listen? In this exhaustive critical study, Koestenbaum (Humiliation) looks with a sharp eye at the ...