Billy, Alex, Jimmy and Minnie have turned out to be healthy, inquisitive children with muinds of their own. I'm proud of them.
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.
In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.
Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.
Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.
The harp has given me a decent living, and my children have given me more pleasure than I ever thought possible.
One of Harpo's earliest gigs was playing piano in a house of ill repute... a job for which he almost wasn't hired to begin with because his employer mistook him for his older brother, Chico (who'd already held and lost the same position); their resemblance was uncanny.
Harpo and his family were interviewed by Edward R. Murrow once for the show Person to Person. Wife Susan served as Harpo's "interpreter."
Harpo's autobiography, published in 1963, was entitled Harpo Speaks.
Harpo and his brothers made their film debut as a comedy team in the 1929 movie The Cocoanuts.
Jack Benny once wanted Harpo to appear on his show and talk but Harpo rebuffed this idea.
Harper's character usually communicated with a bicycle horn which he would honk.
The last movie in which Harpo and his brothers appeared as a comedy team was 1949's Love Happy.
The character of "Banjo" in George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's play, The Man Who Came to Dinner, was based on Harpo.
Harpo was left-handed.
Harpo was the second oldest Marx brother behind Chico.
One reason Harpo seldom got recognized out of costume was that he was nearly completely bald in real life.
Harpo became a mute on-stage after reading a critic's review of a performance which stated that he was great until he opened his mouth.
Harpo was married to actress Susan Fleming from 1936 until his death in 1964.
Harpo legally changed his name from Adolph to Arthur in 1911.
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