Harpo Marx
American comedian · United States · On the map · Comedians · Lived 1888 to 1964 · aged 75
Arthur "Harpo" Marx was an American comedian and harpist, and the second-oldest of the Marx Brothers. 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.
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Margaret Dumont Also in A Night at the Opera and The Big Store
Herman J. Mankiewicz Produced Duck Soup and Monkey Business
Henriette Renié Taught Harpo
Buster Keaton Wrote A Night at the Opera and Go West
Leo McCarey Directed Duck Soup and Love Happy
Sam Wood Directed A Night at the Opera (1935)- Norman Z. McLeod Directed Monkey Business and Horse Feathers
Edward Buzzell Directed At the Circus and Go West- Morrie Ryskind Wrote A Night at the Opera and The Cocoanuts
Ben Hecht Wrote Love Happy and Monkey Business
George S. Kaufman Wrote Animal Crackers and The Cocoanuts
Sig Ruman Also in A Night at the Opera (1935)- Harry Ruby Wrote Duck Soup and Animal Crackers
- Bert Kalmar Wrote Duck Soup and Animal Crackers
Edmund Lowe Also in La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935)
Diana Lewis Also in Go West and MGM's Big Parade of Comedy
Walter Woolf King Also in A Night at the Opera and Go West- Robert Youngson Directed MGM's Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Katharine Hepburn Also in Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Mary Pickford Produced Love Happy (1950)
Martin Short Influenced by Harpo
Robert Taylor Also in La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935)
Virginia Grey Also in The Big Store and Stage Door Canteen
Sol Lesser Produced Stage Door Canteen (1943)
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Lobby card for Monkey Business (1931) with Chico (left) and Harpo (right)
Newspaper ad for Animal Crackers (1930) with Lillian Roth paragraph
The four Marx Brothers. From the top down: Chico, Harpo, Groucho, and Zeppo, c. 1931
Harpo and Chico Marx in The Incredible Jewelry Robbery (1959)
Marx as the "mechanical man" in A Silent Panic (1960)
Members and associates of the Algonquin Round Table: (standing, left to right) Art Samuels and Harpo Marx; (sitting) Charles MacArthur, Dorothy Parker, and Alexander Woollcott
The Marx Brothers (clockwise: Chico, Harpo, and Groucho) by Yousuf Karsh in 1948Listen
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In all of his movie appearances, he wore a curly reddish blonde wig and did not speak, instead blowing a horn or whistling to communicate. Marx frequently employed props such as a horn cane constructed from a lead pipe, tape, and a bulbhorn.
