In the low-brow view, most artists are screwy. In any view, two of the screwiest living artists are Painter Salvador Dali and Actor Harpo Marx. It is natural that two such surrealists should be ...

The sequence sees Marx carry in his famous harp and play “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” before getting up, chasing Carolyn, and throwing her over his shoulder. But, despite Harpo’s health ...

When Salvador Dalí met Harpo Marx, he was so infatuated that he wrote a treatment for a surreal Marx Brothers film, Giraffes on Horseback Salad. The film didn't fly, but this graphic novel does.

It would take another career and a couple decades before Muhammad ever actually got a harp of her own or even learned to play one. But that Harpo Marx-inspiration eventually rang true — a life ...

One of the most powerful passages in the book relates a trip to New York in the mid-1950s. Harpo was to appear on The Martha Raye Show. During the visit, Fleming Marx writes, Harpo overheard his ...

Corey Hawkins was excited at the chance to learn more about the dynamic between his character Harpo and Harpo’s father Mister (Colman Domingo) in The Color Purple. In an interview with Blavity ...

The actors broke down how they approached the roles of Mister and Harpo in the film. The latest adaptation of […] The post Colman Domingo, Corey Hawkins on tackling Mister and Harpo in ‘The ...

In an utter rarity, Harpo spoke onstage to Riverside Symphony audiences in 1961 and 1964 during guest appearances, columnist and Marx Brothers fan David Allen reports. Skip to content All Sections ...

‘Giraffes on Horseback Salad’ by Josh Frank. 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 ...