Harpo Marx

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Biography

Harpo Marx (born November 23, 1888) was the silent member of "The Marx Brothers" comedy team along with brothers, Chico and Groucho. Originally named…more

Born

New York City,N.Y.

Died

9/28/1964

Birth Name

Adolph Arthur Marx

Gender

Male

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    • 55 seconds of the Marx Brothers early silent film is on You Tube. It only has Harpo and someone else in that one scene.
    • In his autobiography, Harpo Speaks, Harpo complains that all his life he craved black jellybeans and could never could get enough of them, but assures us that he finally achieved jellybean satisfaction one evening, at the movies with his friends George Burns and Gracie Allen. Apparently, Harpo fell asleep with a big bag of black jellybeans in his lap, spilled the beans all over the theater floor, woke up and accused Burns of having eaten his jellybeans! However, before dozing off, he'd had enough, and never craved them again.
    • Harpo was a respected member of the Algonquin Roundtable, along with Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woolcott et al. Some of his friends from this group used to retreat to a private island where most of them would work on their writing projects and/or relax and play. Among the games they played were croquet and "murder," a day-long roleplay of sorts in which participants drew straws to see who'd play the murderer (secret) and who'd play the detective (open). The murderer would "kill" people by saying to them "you're dead" whereupon the victim would have to lie down and stay in place until evening, when the detective would question the living, trying to determine the killer's identity. Murderous Harpo was caught easily because he killed his lone victim, Alice Duer Miller, by writing "You're Dead" on a roll of toilet paper. (He misspelled it -- and was the only "illiterate" in that group.) Miller was stuck in the bathroom all day but claimed not to mind, as she'd brought her novel in progress with her and got lots of work done.

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