Wayne Koestenbaum has set himself a deliberately quixotic task: to explicate the work of the most famous silent comedian of the post-silent era using nothing but words, and the occasional photograph.

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When Harpo Marx met Salvador Dalí, it was kismet, as Josh Frank reports in Giraffes on Horseback Salad, his diverting graphic novel about the pair's 1937 attempt to collaborate on a movie of the same ...

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It was a match made in heaven. In 1936, the famous Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí met Harpo Marx, vaudevillian extraordinaire and one quarter of Hollywood's ruling comedy gang, the Marx Brothers.

2 Book Review: KIDS, WAIT TILL YOU HEAR THIS! MY MEMOIR by Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Josh Getlin, Heidi Evans To mark what would have been the 85th wedding anniversary of Harpo Marx and Susan ...

Susan Fleming Marx had an undistinguished career on Broadway and in films. Her best-known film is the W.C. Fields comedy, Million Dollar Legs. Her greatest role, and the one she cherished most, was as ...

Martin Chilton is a former Culture Editor for The Telegraph. He was formerly Sports Editor and a columnist for the Evening Standard. Prior to this Martin has edited music books and magazines and ...

"Long ago, someone told Harpo to shut up"%E2%80%94but why did he listen? In this exhaustive critical study, Koestenbaum (Humiliation) looks with a sharp eye at the ...