The comedy legend, who adopted his silent persona because of stage nerves, did occasionally address his audience, as revealed by a new archive release ...

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Harpo Marx’s wife, Susan Fleming, once remarked that, when you got him talking, you couldn’t shut him up. The proof was there for those who chanced to see him on tour with his brothers in the 1930s ...