Editing Harpo Marx (section)

== Personal life ==
[[Image:Harpo & kids.jpg|thumb|Marx and three of his children wearing Harpo wigs in Los Angeles, 1954]]
Harpo's September 28, 1936, marriage to actress [[Susan Fleming]] became public knowledge the next month due to a congratulatory telegram sent by President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].<ref name="NYTimesMarriage">{{cite news| title=Harpo Marx Weds - Marriage to Susan Fleming Is Revealed In Wire to Roosevelt| url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/11/05/93531576.html?pageNumber=34| access-date=15 August 2016| newspaper=The New York Times| agency=[[Associated Press]]| date=November 5, 1936| page=34}}</ref> Harpo's marriage, like Gummo's, was lifelong<ref name="SusanMarxObitLATimes">{{cite news |last1=Oliver |first1=Myrna |title=Susan F. Marx, 94; Widow of Comedian Harpo Marx |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-27-me-marx27-story.html |access-date=1 December 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=12 December 2002}}</ref> (Groucho was divorced three times,<ref name="GrouchoElderAbusePBS">{{cite web |last1=Markel |first1=Howard |title=How Groucho Marx Fell Prey to Elder Abuse |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-groucho-marx-fell-prey-to-elder-abuse |website=[[PBS NewsHour]] |date=August 19, 2019 |publisher=Public Broadcasting Service |access-date=1 December 2020}}</ref> Zeppo twice,<ref name="BarbaraSinatraAffairNatPost">{{cite news |last1=Schudel |first1=Matt |title=Barbara was still married to Zeppo Marx when Frank Sinatra charmed her into bed |url=https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/celebrity/barbara-was-still-married-to-zeppo-marx-when-frank-sinatra-charmed-her-into-bed |website=National Post |date=July 26, 2017 |publisher=Washington Post |access-date=1 December 2020}}</ref><ref name="DailyNewsMarionDivorce">{{cite news |title=Divorce Granted To Zeppo's Wife |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26507881/divorce-granted-to-zeppos-wife/ |access-date=1 December 2020 |work=Daily News |publisher=Associated Press |date=19 May 1954}}</ref> and Chico once<ref name="NYTimesZeppoDivorce">{{cite news|last1=Fraser|first1=C. Gerald|title=Zeppo Marx Dies on Coast at 78 Last Survivor of Comedy Team|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/01/archives/zeppo-marx-dies-on-coast-at-78-last-survivor-of-comedy-team-tired.html|access-date=1 December 2020|work=The New York Times |agency=United Press International|date=1 December 1979}}</ref>). The couple adopted four children: [[Bill Marx (pianist)|Bill]], Alex, Jimmy, and Minnie.<ref name="BeaconAdoptedChildren">{{cite news |last1=Annarino |first1=John |title=Harpo's son found early success in music |url=https://www.thebeaconnewspapers.com/harpos-son-found-early-success-in-music/ |access-date=1 December 2020 |work=The Beacon |publisher=The Beacon Newspapers}}</ref> When he was asked by [[George Burns]] in 1948 how many children he planned to adopt, he answered, "I'd like to adopt as many children as I have windows in my house. So when I leave for work, I want a kid in every window, waving goodbye."<ref name="TIFOClothing">{{cite web |last1=Deezen |first1=Eddie |title=HARPO MARX AND HIS HABIT OF SHEDDING HIS CLOTHING AT RANDOM TIMES |url=http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/10/harpo-marx-habit-shedding-clothing-random-times/ |website=Today I Found Out |date=October 21, 2014 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref>
[[File:Algonquin Round Table.gif|left|thumb|Members and associates of the Algonquin Round Table: (''standing, left to right'') Art Samuels and Harpo Marx; (''sitting'') [[Charles MacArthur]], [[Dorothy Parker]], and [[Alexander Woollcott]]]]
Harpo was good friends with theater critic [[Alexander Woollcott]],<ref name="LongreadsMarxAndWoollcott">{{cite web |last1=Stuckey-French |first1=Ned |title=Alexander Woollcott and Harpo Marx: A Love Story |url=https://longreads.com/2014/04/30/the-odd-couple-alexander-woollcott-and-harpo-our-longreads-member-pick/ |website=Longreads |date=April 30, 2014 |access-date=1 December 2020}}</ref> alongside whom he became a regular member of the [[Algonquin Round Table]].<ref name="BritannicaAlgonquin">{{cite web |title=Algonquin Round Table |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Algonquin-Round-Table |website=Britannica |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |access-date=1 December 2020}}</ref> He once said his main contribution was to be the audience for the quips of other members.<ref name="speaks" /> In their play ''[[The Man Who Came to Dinner]]'', [[George S. Kaufman]] and [[Moss Hart]] based the character of "Banjo" on Harpo.<ref name="AZTheaterManWhoCametoDinner">{{cite web |title=From the Dramaturgs of THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER |url=https://theatre.arizona.edu/dramaturgy/aboutthemanwhocametodinner/ |website=Arizona Repertory Theater |publisher=College of Fine Arts |access-date=1 December 2020}}</ref> Harpo later played the role in Los Angeles<ref name="LATimesDinner">{{cite news |last1=McCulloh |first1=T.H. |title="Dinner" is Almost Ready in Huntington |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-14-ca-38004-story.html |access-date=1 December 2020 |newspaper=LA Times |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=14 March 1997}}</ref> opposite Woollcott, himself the inspiration for the character of Sheridan Whiteside.<ref>{{cite news| last=Batistick| first=Mike| title=The Man Who Came to Bubby's: Nathan Lane Takes on Critics| url=https://observer.com/2000/07/the-man-who-came-to-bubbys-nathan-lane-takes-on-critics/| newspaper=[[The New York Observer]]| date=July 24, 2000| access-date=2020-04-10}}</ref>

[[File:Marx Brothers 1948.jpg|thumb|The Marx Brothers (clockwise: Chico, Harpo, and Groucho) by [[Yousuf Karsh]] in 1948]]
In 1961, Harpo published his autobiography, ''Harpo Speaks!'' <ref name="speaks" /> Because he did not speak in any of his film appearances, many moviegoers believed he actually was [[Muteness|mute]]. In fact, radio and TV news recordings of his voice can be found on the Internet,<ref name="YTVoice">{{cite web |title=Harpo Marx Speaks |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19prL2ue4pk | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522100253/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19prL2ue4pk| archive-date=2014-05-22 | url-status=dead|website=Youtube |access-date=1 December 2020}}</ref> in documentaries,<ref name="NastasiHarpoVoice">{{cite web |last1=Nastasi |first1=Alison |title=Why Harpo Marx Never Spoke, Plus: Here's What His Voice Actually Sounded Like |url=https://www.imdb.com/news/ni54262607 |website=Movies.Com |publisher=IMDb}}</ref> and on bonus materials of Marx Brothers DVDs.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} A reporter who interviewed him in the early 1930s wrote that Harpo "had a deep and distinguished voice, like a professional announcer", and like his brothers, spoke with a [[New York accent]] his entire life.<ref>{{cite AV media| url=http://www.marx-brothers.org/biography/harposp.htm| title=Harpo Speaks| website=The Marx Brothers| access-date=2020-04-10}}</ref> According to those who personally knew him, Harpo's voice was much deeper than Groucho's, but it also sounded very similar to Chico's. His son, Bill, recalled that in private, Harpo had a very deep and mature soft-spoken voice, but that he was "not verbose" like the other Marx brothers, instead preferring to listen and learn from others.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.journalnow.com/relishnow/film_tv/tv_tidbits/marx-brothers-featured-in-new-dvd-release/article_1bfaf4ba-106a-57a5-b8bf-bc29fd7732ef.html| title=Marx Brothers featured in new DVD release| last=Clodfelter| first=Tim| newspaper=[[Winston-Salem Journal]]| date=August 17, 2014| access-date=2014-09-02}}</ref>

Harpo expressed public support for Zionism and Israel since the 1940s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Medoff |first=Rafael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vMl0-azdbVYC |title=Militant Zionism in America: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948 |date=2002-07-02 |publisher=University of Alabama Press |isbn=978-0-8173-1071-4 |pages=150 |language=en}}</ref> He often appeared as a speaker at pro-Israel functions throughout the country. He visited Israel in 1963.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1964-09-30 |title=Harpo Marx Dead at 70; Broke Silence for Pro-israel Causes |url=https://www.jta.org/archive/harpo-marx-dead-at-70-broke-silence-for-pro-israel-causes |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}</ref>

Harpo's final public appearance came on January 19, 1963, when he announced his retirement, causing singer/comedian [[Allan Sherman]] to burst into tears.<ref name="PBSBillMarx">{{cite web |last1=Marx |first1=Bill |title=Great Lines - Bill Marx on Harpo |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/makeemlaugh/video/all-interviews/great-lines-bill-marx-on-harpo/100/ |website=Make 'Em Laugh |date=January 21, 2009 |publisher=Public Broadcasting Service |access-date=1 December 2020}}</ref> Comedian [[Steve Allen]], who was in the audience, remembered that Harpo spoke for several minutes about his career, and how he would miss it all, and repeatedly interrupted Sherman when he tried to speak.<ref name="attic">{{cite web |title=THE ONE, THE ONLY -- HARPO! |url=https://www.theattic.space/home-page-blogs/2020/11/13/the-one-the-only-harpo|website=The Attic|date=November 13, 2020 |access-date=1 December 2020}}</ref> Allen remembered that although the audience found this rare speech from Harpo charmingly ironic, his personal opinion was that Harpo "wouldn't shut up!"<ref name=colvin>{{cite journal| last=Colvin| first=Rod| title=Remembering Harpo: His Life and Legacy| journal=American Harp Journal| date=Winter 2009| url=https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-217240691/remembering-harpo-his-life-and-legacy| volume=22| number=2| page=36| access-date=April 11, 2020| archive-date=April 11, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411010811/https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-217240691/remembering-harpo-his-life-and-legacy| url-status=dead}}</ref> Harpo, an avid [[croquet]] player, was inducted into the [[Croquet Hall of Fame]] in 1979.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.croquetamerica.com/usca/halloffame/| title=United States Croquet Hall of Fame| website=[[United States Croquet Association]]| access-date=February 19, 2016}}</ref>