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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 ...

1 WRITERS ON A NEW ENGLAND STAGE Spring Series To Feature Yann Martel, Elizabeth Strout, Matt Haig, And Maggie O’Farrell To mark what would have been the 85th wedding anniversary of Harpo Marx 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 once conducted a Riverside Symphony concert. The so-called “silent partner” in the Marx Brothers — he never spoke, instead whistling, using props and performing pantomime — behaved as ...

For Marx Brothers fans, the posthumous publication of Susan Fleming Marx’s memoir, “Speaking of Harpo,” raises a glimmer of hope that other holy grails in the comedy team’s mythology — their long-lost ...