Arthur Adolph "Harpo" Marx (November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964) was an American comedian and film star. He was the second oldest of the Marx Brothers. His comic style was influenced by clown and ...

Susan Fleming Marx had an undistinguished career on Broadway and in films. Her best-known film is the W.C. Fields comedy, Million Dollar Legs. Her greatest role, and the one she cherished most, was as ...

Harpo Marx — that industrious nonsense-maker, that weirdly peripheral cynosure, that genius of the rambunctious nonsequitur — at last has the celebrant he deserves. In The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Wayne ...

Oscar Levant was a concert pianist and actor in the 1930s through the 1950s, famous for his witty banter and comic timing. So when director Stefan Novinski was pitched the idea of a play about Levant ...

In March of 1941, a 72-year-old German Jewish widow named Helene Schickler was waiting to join her family in the U.S. She was then living in a convent in Naples with other refugees, and the nuns ...

MANITOWOC - Over its long history, the harp has been played by the famous and not-so-famous alike. Harpo Marx, member of the wildly popular comedic Marx Brothers, was known for his curly mop top and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Harpo Marx was famously the silent Marx brother, the one in the curly red wig who got all of his ...

A few years ago, middle-aged cultural historian (and onetime Newsday columnist) M.G. Lord sat down with some younger friends and watched a set of Elizabeth Taylor DVDs that she'd received as a gift.