Harpo Marx
Author
Publisher
Limelight Editions
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Arthur--Harpo--Marx, the silent harpist of the Marx Brothers, describes his life, and includes his childhood, education, professional accomplishments, and personal relationships while also discussing his thoughts on fame, success, and lifestyle.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert hall are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business schemes. The goal, to bring Milan's finest opera stars to Manhattan.
3) Duck soup
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo Marx are at their very best in the political satire Duck Soup which is often regarded as the comedy legends' funniest and most popular film. After being appointed dictator of Freedonia, Rufus T. Firefly proceeds to bring the mythical nation to a halt by showing up late and insulting everyone at his inauguration. Hoping to oust the unfit new leader, two spies are sent from neighboring Sylvania. Soon enough, war is declared...
Language
English
Description
The Marx Brothers skewer medicine and bring home a racetrack winner. In his favorite role, Groucho is Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush, MD, Ph.D., RFD, MC, PDQ, BYOB and none of the above dispensing horse pills and quips with equal glee. Chico, Harpo, and favorite foil Margaret Dumont join the fun of this thoroughly thoroughbred comedy. Enjoy tootsie-frootsie ice cream, Dumont¿s medical exam, Harpo¿s pretty-girl pantomime sketch, wallpaper wackiness, and...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The Marx Brothers became entertainment icons through a long and brilliant career on vaudeville and Broadway stages, and they sealed their immortality in a string of celebrated feature films. But the end of their film career was perfectly timed for a collision with the birth of television. The new medium provided Groucho, Chico and Harpo with unprecedented exposure: which meant, of course, an opportunity to bring laughter to millions of people all...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In Go West: It's 1870 and the Marx Brothers are out to get rich in Dead Man's Gulch. In The Big store: The Brothers reduce an enormous inventory of upscale merchandise into a multilevel disaster as they pursue and evade villains via bicycles, skates, unicycles, broad jumps, shipping chutes, elevator cables, high wires, pole vaults and pseudo-Tarzan chandelier swinging.
10) The cocoanuts
Language
English
Formats
Description
The legendary Marx Brothers Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo made their motion picture debut in the outrageously funny adaptation of their Broadway play The Cocoanuts. Groucho portrays the owner of the Hotel de Cocoanut who tries to fleece everyone from innocent bellboys and bellgirls to wealthy society matron Mrs. Potter. Chico and Harpo play resort hotel con men who arrive with empty suitcases they plan to fill by robbing guests. Featuring elaborate...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Cocoanuts"; Groucho as a hotel owner, Harpo and Chico as con men. "Animal crackers"; Loosely centers around a painting stolen during a house party. "Monkey business"; Running from the authorities the Marx Brothers stowaway on a luxury liner where they encounter and become bodyguards for rival gangsters. "Horsefeathers"; Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College."Duck soup"; To rescue the small country...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A day at the races (1937): A vet posing as a doctor, a race horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open with the help of a misfit race horse ; A night in Casablanca (1946): It's the Nazis vs. the Brothers when the trio foils Axis criminal activity at a hotel swirling in intrigue and whirling with nonstop nonsense.
15) Monkey business
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The shenanigans start right away as the brothers stow away on a luxury liner. It's their first film that wasn't based on a play, as they endeavored to find new material.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Cocoanuts: A Florida land auction is disrupted by a jewelry theft and shady visitors.
Animal crackers: A weekend party is not complete until Captain Spaulding, the noted African explorer, arrives for the celebration.
Monkey business: An ocean voyage is complicated by stowaways and by gangsters' nefarious dealings.
Horse feathers: Huxley College gains two football players just in time for the big game with their rival school, but are they enough...
18) Monkey business
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The iconic Marx Brothers Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo head for the high seas in the outrageously funny Monkey Business. While hiding from the authorities on a luxury cruise ship, a quartet of stowaways inadvertently find themselves posing as bodyguards to rival gangsters. Complete lunacy ensues as the brothers get mixed up in a kidnapping and must save the day. Featuring some of the legendary comedy team's wackiest scenes ever, including all four...
19) Animal crackers
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Filled with comedy sketches, musical numbers, and plenty of gags, Animal Crackers is often regarded as the Marx Brothers' most quoted film for its witty and unforgettable dialogue. Groucho stars as Captain Spaulding, a famed African explorer who is being honored at a high society party at the estate of Mrs. Rittenhouse. Mayhem and chaos ensue after a valuable painting disappears and Spaulding, along with Professor, Signore Emanuel Ravelli and Horatio...
20) Love happy
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Harpo Marx is a true patron of the arts, taking from the rich to help feed a group of poor actors struggling to open a new musical without financial backers. He unknowingly makes off with the missing Romanoff diamonds when he shoplifts a tin of sardines from a classy Manhattan market. The smuggler, Madame Egelichi and her henchmen make a madcap race to retrieve the jewels.