#5 marx brothers movie#

When Harpo died in 1964 there was genuine sorrow throughout the movie industry. In real life they were not unlike their screen personas. Groucho was witty, Chico was shifty, but Harpo was basically loveable. To many fans Harpo was the most likeable of the brothers. Fans thought his name was pronounced, вЂCheekoвЂ™, in the Italian way, but his brothers always called him вЂChickoвЂ™. In reality, he was called вЂChickoвЂ™ because of his obsession with women. The name, ChicoвЂ™, came about through a typing error when someone left out the вЂkвЂ™ on a printed program. An inveterate life-long gambler (and a notoriously poor one), he found it useful to switch from one accent to another depending on which part of New York the latest floating crap game was operating in. Actually, he had perfected several accents as a boy German, Italian and Irish to name three of them. When the lift doors opened the naked trio leapt out, only to discover they had alighted at a luncheon for female telephone operators!ДЄlthough the Marx Brothers were Jewish, many fans believed Chico to be Italian because he adopted an Italian accent for his on-screen persona.

While in the elevator on their way to the 14 th floor they decided to strip off and surprise the gathering. On another occasion the brothers were required to perform at a noon executive luncheon in New York City. Someone who chooses not to talk might be funny, he reasoned, but someone who cannot talk can only be tragic. When MGM summoned them to Hollywood to discuss a movie contract, the brothers tired of waiting for executive Irving Thalberg to arrive, so they stripped naked in his office and toasted marshmallows in his fireplace until he did! Incidentally, it was Thalberg who insisted on the audience being made fully aware that Harpo was a mute by choice. Collectively they were even funnier, whether on stage, on the screen, or in real life.

5 marx brothers