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'Silent' Marx brother Harpo speaks in newly found recording

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By Olivia Hampton
| Arizona Public Media Verified
In the recovered audio, taped just months before his death in 1964, Arthur "Harpo" Marx plays the harp and narrates Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, with a nod to the politics of the time. Chico was the Italian-ish, piano-playing con artist, Groucho was the thickly mustachioed wisecracker and Harpo the gentle soul who never spoke a word. And with that trio, the Marx Brothers conquered vaudeville, Broadway and Hollywood in the first half of the 20th century.
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'Silent' Marx brother Harpo speaks in newly found recording

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By Olivia Hampton
| KNPR-FM (Las Vegas, NV) Verified
Updated June 15, 2026 at 12:24 PM PDT Chico was the Italian-ish, piano-playing con artist, Groucho was the thickly mustachioed wisecracker and Harpo the gentle soul who never spoke a word. And with that trio, the Marx Brothers conquered vaudeville, Broadway and Hollywood in the first half of the 20th century. Harpo can now be heard in character in a recently found recording taped just six months before he died in 1964.
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'Silent' Marx brother Harpo speaks in newly found recording

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By Olivia Hampton
| WXXI-FM (Rochester, NY) Verified
Updated June 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM EDT Chico was the Italian-ish, piano-playing con artist, Groucho was the thickly mustachioed wisecracker and Harpo the gentle soul who never spoke a word. And with that trio, the Marx Brothers conquered vaudeville, Broadway and Hollywood in the first half of the 20th century. Harpo can now be heard in character in a recently found recording taped just six months before he died in 1964.
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