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In the Marx Brothers' movie At the Circus (1939), however, Harpo "speaks" in a movie with the brothers in the scene in which he visits the room of Little Professor Atom (Jerry Maren) and sneezes, clearly saying "At-choo!". Harpo was often cast as Chico's partner, whom he would often help by playing charades to tell of Groucho's problem, and/or annoy by giving Chico his leg. In Too Many Kisses, Harpo spoke the only line he would ever speak on-camera in a movie: "You sure you can't move?" Fittingly, it was a silent movie, and the audience only saw his lips move and saw the line on a title card. Four years later, Harpo appeared without his brothers in Too Many Kisses, four years before the brothers' first widely released film, The Cocoanuts (1929). His first screen appearance was in the 1921 film Humor Risk, with his brothers, although according to Groucho, it was only screened once and then lost. Urban legends stating that the name change came about during World War I due to anti-German sentiment in the US, or during World War II because of the stigma that Adolf Hitler imposed on the name, are groundless. This was due primarily to his dislike for the name Adolph (as a child, he was routinely called "Ahdie" instead). Harpo had changed his name from Adolph to Arthur by 1911. He was also seen playing a portion of Rachmaninoff's "Prelude in C# minor" in A Day at the Races and chords on the piano in A Night at the Opera, in such a way that the piano sounded much like a harp, as a prelude to actually playing the harp in that scene. Unlike Chico, Harpo could play only two songs on the piano, "Waltz Me Around Again, Willie" and "Love Me and the World Is Mine," but he adapted this small repertoire in different tempos to suit the action on the screen. In his autobiography Harpo Speaks (1961), Harpo recounts how Chico found him jobs playing piano to accompany silent movies. In his movie performances he played the harp with his own tuning. They spent their time listening to him, fascinated by the way he played.
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Although he played this way for the rest of his life, he did try to learn how to play correctly, and he spent considerable money hiring the best teachers. Harpo's method placed much less tension on the strings. Three years later he found out he had tuned it incorrectly, but he could not have tuned it properly if he had, the strings would have broken each night. No one in town knew how to play the harp, so Harpo tuned it as best he could, starting with one basic note and tuning it from there.
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(In Harpo's autobiography, he says that mother Minnie Marx sent him the harp.) Harpo learned how to hold it properly from a picture of an angel playing a harp that he saw in a five-and-dime. The dealer (Art Fisher) called him "Harpo" because he played the harp.
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Harpo gained his stage name during a card game at the Orpheum Theatre in Galesburg, Illinois. The theater critic wrote, "Adolph Marx performed beautiful pantomime which was ruined whenever he spoke." In January 1910, Harpo joined two of his brothers, Julius (later "Groucho") and Milton (later "Gummo"), to form "The Three Nightingales." Harpo was inspired to develop his "silent" routine after reading a review of one of their performances which had been largely ad-libbed. He began to work, gaining employment in numerous odd jobs alongside his brother Chico to contribute to the family income, including selling newspapers, working in a butcher shop, and as an errand office boy. Harpo received little formal education and left grade school at age eight, during his second attempt to pass the second grade. His mother was from East Frisia in Germany, and his father was a native of France and worked as a tailor. Harpo's parents were Sam Marx (called "Frenchie" throughout his life) and his wife, Minnie Schoenberg Marx. Just across the street were the oldest brownstones in the area, owned by people like the well-connected Loew Brothers and William Orth. The turn-of-the-century building that Harpo called "the first real home they ever knew" (in his memoir Harpo Speaks), was populated with European immigrants, mostly artisans – which even included a glass blower. He grew up in a neighborhood now known as Carnegie Hill on the Upper East Side (E 93rd Street off Lexington Avenue) of Manhattan. Marx frequently used props such as a horn cane, made up of a lead pipe, tape, and a bulbhorn, and he played the harp in most of his films. He wore a curly reddish blonde wig, and never spoke during performances (he blew a horn or whistled to communicate). His comic style was influenced by clown and pantomime traditions.
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He was the second-oldest of the Marx Brothers. Adolph " Harpo" Marx (later Arthur "Harpo" Marx) (Novem– September 28, 1964) was an American comedian and film star.