Harpo Marx painted "his" portrait. In 1955, Harpo made an appearance on the sitcom "I Love Lucy," in which he and Lucille Ball re-enacted the famous mirror scene from the Marx Brothers movie "Duck Soup" (1933). In this scene, they are both supposed to be Harpo, not Groucho; he stays the same and she is dressed as him. About this time, he also appeared on NBC's "The Martha Raye Show". Harpo recorded an album of harp music for RCA Victor ("Harp by Harpo", 1952) and two for Mercury Records ("Harpo in Hi-Fi", 1957; "Harpo at Work", 1958). Harpo and Chico played a
Marx Brothers Marx Brothers were born in New York City, the sons of Jewish immigrants from Germany and France. Their mother Miene "Minnie" Schoenberg (professionally known as Minnie Palmer, later the brothers' manager) was from Dornum in East Frisia, and their father Samuel ("Sam"; born Simon) Marx was a native of Alsace and worked as a tailor. (His name was changed to Samuel Marx, and he was nicknamed "Frenchy".) The family lived in the poor Yorkville section of New York City's Upper East Side, centered in the Irish, German and Italian quarters. The brothers are best known by their stage names: Another