Harpo Marx for the name Adolph (as a child, he was routinely called "Ahdie" instead). The name change may have also happened because of the similarity between Harpo's name and Adolph Marks, a prominent show business attorney in Chicago. 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. His first screen appearance was in the film "Humor Risk" (1921), with his brothers, although according to Groucho, it was only screened once and then
SS Adolph Woermann SS Adolph Woermann SS "Adolph Woermann" was a German ocean liner built in 1922 by Blohm + Voss in Hamburg, for the shipping lines Woermann-Linie (WL) and German East Africa Line ("Deutsche Ostafrika Linie", DOAL) and named after German merchant, ship owner and politician Adolph Woermann, and the fourth ship of the same name. "Adolph Woermann" ran aground at Cape Spartivento, Sardinia, Italy, on 24 October 1928. She was refloated on 26 October 1928. At the outbreak of World War II on the homebound trip "Adolph Woermann" lay at Lobito in Portuguese Angola and was detained by the Portuguese authorities.