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He learned how to hold it properly from a picture of an angel playing a harp that he saw in a five-and-dime store.Ī SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS: The dealer called him "Harpo" because he played the harp. Harpo, born Adolph Marx in 1888, got his stage name during a card game at the Orpheum Theatre in Galesburg, Illinois. The real Harpo shows up for this great mirror scene. To fulfill theīoast she dresses up as a few such as Clark Gable, Gary Cooper as wellĪs Harpo Marx. The premise of the episode is that Lucy promises nearsightedĬarolyn Appleby she’ll meet some Hollywood celebrities.


It comes from an old vaudeville routine used by other mimes. It's a takeoff on the famous scene with Groucho Marx in the 1933 film Duck Soup, one of the Marx Brothers' funniest. This episode, originally in black and white, was colorized.

Harpo got a chance to show off his comedic talents in this sketch that he did with Lucille Ball in an episode of I Love Lucy. The Marx Brothers were a great team in all of their movies, but each brother was a comedian in his own right.
