Harpo Marx au naturel

It's blurred

I'm not sure if that's a real pic but it's possible. Harpo was a nudist and I've seen an actual photo of him.

Had to look him up - but nice body and thick enough dick. What's with the wig??

Nice body. Nice cock.

It was his mother's wig, and he used it as part of his zany, mute character in his shows with his brothers.

R3 That's what he wore when he was in character with his brothers.

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How old are you, R3? It’s so strange to me that a Datalounger wouldn’t know Harpo Marx.

Personally?

That's very sexy

“Harpo? What did Harpo want?”

“He didn’t say.”

There's evidence that Harpo was gay.

R21 I'd have hit that.

R12 And that would be? Link to said "evidence?"

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Really, R8?! He’s been dead for almost 60 years.

R16, unlike most Americans, Dataloungers tend to be culturally literate, even when the subjects predate them.

I'd like to see a photo of his grandnephew Gregg Marx in a similar position!

He gives off hot big cummer vibes

OP .. It appears to be real, because the original photo is currently up for sale, and the auction house (Jjulien's) says they have supporting provenance of its authenticity and who-where the photo came from.

From the description:

[quote] Accompanied by a signed Letter of Provenance detailing how the photo was gifted to assistant director Charlie Barton by Harpo as a gag before boarding a train to New York city following production.

Bidding is up to $4,000.

A straight man would not give another man a picture of his dick.

He was always the sensitive type...

I wish he'd done the mirror illusion with Lucy like this.

Woollcott was definitely smitten with him and Harpo was fond of getting naked at every opportunity. He flew back East from California to visit Woollcott and went to his house naked as a surprise. Harpo didn’t marry until he was 48, and then he and his wife adopted four children. So, he was at the least very gay friendly.

R23 Wouldn't Lucy had to have been naked as well and wearing a prosthetic penis? Or at least one made out of putty like the episode with the nose.

Pretty thick for a Jewish guy.

They would never make it in West Hollywood.

I’m so disappointed that the carpet doesn’t match the drapes.

How many of you eldergays are bidding on this?

It wouldn't shock me if this was real. Certainly looks like him. Yep, believe it or not, people were just as freaky back in the 20s as they are now. From the days the first humans walked the earth we've been gettin' nasty.

This toxic behaviour is unacceptable! I'm triggered!

That’s actually Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

I imagine the photo was lovingly preserved by a gay man who passed it down to his favorite nephew.

He’s handsome, and in good shape. Even a bit of a six pack. I think his comedy routine contained at least some physical elements so it probably helped to be in shape. Woollcott was unfortunate looking, I could see him, like a lot of less attractive gays, getting infatuated with a good looking guy like Harpo. Harpo was really fucking with him showing up at his house naked. Was Harpo the epitome of bi? All of a sudden I am interested in those old films.

Everyone keeps saying he’s thick, but to me that looks like mostly scrotum with an inch of (healthy looking) peen??

R35 Right. No one said he was long. They said he was fairly thick.

OP's Pic is blurred, so I had to Google it... Definitely Harpo, strong tight compact acrobat body, Jewish cut dick, he looks relaxed and proud of his nakedness, a comic genius and a sweet guy, by all accounts. :-)

R37 All I had to do was click on the picture and the blur went away.

Look at the way nothing is bunching up at the hip. A nice taut body, with very little fat.

Weren't all the Marx brothers rumored to be well hung?

"Weren't all the Marx brothers rumored to be well hung?"

I'll never tell!

R40 Apparently untrue

People in the 20s/30s were WAY wilder than anyone can conceive of. WW2 made the country extremely conservative again until the 60s/70s, when AIDS then killed off the liberated spirit of Americans.

Does the background and furnishings match with scenes from the movie?

Bookwormy little perv, wasn't he?

Harpo was 44 when this was taken.

According to the description it was given as a gag gift, To me it seems more like a "remember the good times we had" gift.

Harpo, tooting his own horn!

Is he the guy who works for Oprah?

Yes R44. Same curtains, same couch, same lamp.

OP, thanks for making me horny for one of the Marx Brothers. 😳🤯

R15, That was an interesting read. Thanks for posting the link.

Someone had to "look up" Harpo Marx?

God, people are lost in the wilderness.

I think all the Marxes were quite handsome without the costumes and makeup. Chico, however, being the oldest and having lived a hard life of partying and womanizing, was a bit rough looking.

The thought of that eunuch troll Alexander Woollcott fucking around with Harpo's hot ass makes me ill. I downloaded the book at R15 (thank you) and look forward to reading it. Hopefully I'll find out it was a JFK/Lem Billings one sided romance thing.

Surprisingly hot.

I wonder if Harpo's grandnephew is a nudist?

[quote]until the 60s/70s, when AIDS then killed off the liberated spirit of Americans.

Sweetie, that would've been the 80s & early 90s.

I meant that America remained conservative again until the 60s/70s, R56.

R52 Sometimes people have to "look up" cultural references (that aren't really referenced much) that occurred long before their time. The cool thing is, looking them up indicates interest, as opposed to some of the dumbasses who just write "Who?" and move on.

I'm surprised his bush isn't bigger. Jon Stewart says all Jewish men have big bushes.

Here's another. Jon Stewart continues to be correct.

You’d have to be ancient and hard up to want this.

R61, those are Datalounge’s adjectives.

Those pictures are pretty scandalous. They would have been scandalous thirsty years ago, let alone 90 years ago. Did Harpo use to get in trouble with the authorities about stuff like this?

In The Man Who Came to Dinner, the scenes with Jimmy Durante ( Banjo ) are inspired by Harpo's friendship with Alexander Wollcott

"We need help. Send help. We're five men and three women. If you can't send help, send two more women!"

He's one of Karl's brothers, R49. Mrs. Marx had a lot of sons.

Hungo

[quote] infatuated with a good looking guy like Harpo

Dear Lord, who knew it would come to this.

From everything I’ve ever read or heard on TV, Harpo was the nicest and most charming of all the Marx Brothers, loved by all. He almost sounds like a saint. Groucho not so much.

[quote] There's evidence that Harpo was gay.

So he liked to get naked, married late and didn't have biological children? That doesn't make somebody gay, for fuck's sake.

None of the Marx brothers were gay. Chico was quite the womanizer. He had what Groucho called "sexual charisma." Women apparently really went for him.

R70 Chill babe, there’s no way to know one way or the other. It’s just a little harmless speculation. It was a different time. Long ago and far away.

Photo at R60 is not of a straight man. Legs up in the air.

voracious bottom

Two of Harpo's sons were named after Alexander Woollcott. Obviously he had a deep affection for him.

Cum shots?

Major pussy hound. Big Bush supporter.

So Harpo was a bear chaser?

Would you admit you had been fucked by Harpo Marx?

Absolutely, R78!

And not just for the bragging rights. He was so uninhibited as a performer, there's decent odds it might have been fun.

"Someone had to "look up" Harpo Marx? God, people are lost in the wilderness."

Lolz at the eldergays on here who think everyone else should be aware of acts from nearly a CENTURY ago. The same eldergays who would struggle to name a 'contemporary' performer beyond Taylor Swift or Harry Styles.

R80 Harpo Marx was popular decades before I was born and was dead before I was born, yet I know who he is, I know who the Marx Brothers are, and I can name their most popular movies.

It's called "learning." It's called "exploring." It's called "curiosity."

Now excuse me while I go listen to SZA.

[quote] Lolz at the eldergays on here who think everyone else should be aware of acts from nearly a CENTURY ago.

Harold and Lola, the King and Queen of Tango was an act from nearly a CENTURY ago. The Marx Brothers were legends.

This thread has me ROLLING! The comments are hilarious. The photos themselves are surreal. And the fact that I'm sitting here participating, studying the images, getting horny even - like, actually lusting for Harpo Marx OF ALL PEOPLE who have ever lived on Earth... its just so ludicrous. This is totally nuts. I keep bursting out in laughter randomly.

This is some funny shit right here.

"actually lusting for Harpo Marx OF ALL PEOPLE"

He's straight. Therefore DL wants to fuck/or get fucked by him.

I never heard a bad word about Harpo Marx. He seemed to have been universally loved by all.

R81 Correct, that's why the poster who asked about them is the last person to be scorned here. They explored and learned with curiosity.

[quote] Lolz at the eldergays

I'm the most basic of basic bitches! LOLZ Anything older than 2015 didn't ever exist!

Goals! King! Bop!

Harpo seems up for anything! Why would he give a random crew member nudes unless they had something going on?

Dear God I hope no Groucho nudes ever surface! I bet he had a big black bush!

I want to see young Groucho nude.

Harpo was ...different. He allegedly tried to buy Shirley Temple so he could adopt her!

R70 Must be Gen Z or frau. Hon, people weren't exactly flaunting homosexual affairs during Harpo's time, and most gay men did have one or two heterosexual marriages. One can and should absolutely connect the dots.

Also I think Harpo really wanted children which of course wasn't possible for single men at the time.

Harpo and his wife adopted all their kids.

I think he looks delicious, especially with the book. My favorite Marx brother.

My point is that if a gay man wanted a family he had to get married.

I read Harpo's autobiography. In it he writes about his first job which was playing the piano in a whorehouse. He was about 14 at the time. Someone, possibly Chico, tried to set him up with a whore. Harpo walked in and upon seeing this woman with her legs spead wide he fled in terror.

quote] Must be Gen Z or frau. Hon, people weren't exactly flaunting homosexual affairs during Harpo's time, and most gay men did have one or two heterosexual marriages. One can and should absolutely connect the dots.

Sweetie pie, you're an idiot. The lives of the Marx Brothers have been well documented and nobody has come up with any evidence that they fucked men. You just want everybody to be gay. But they're not.

[quote]he writes about his first job which was playing the piano in a whorehouse. He was about 14 at the time.

Harpo never spoke in public. But here's a recording of him (made while writing his book) where he tells this story. The madam of the whorehouse had him thrown out when a doctor diagnosed him with the measles. She said, "Get him the hell outta here, I don't want any sick Jews here".

"Because Harpo’s wife Susan Fleming was unable to have children, Harpo did eventually adopt four children who all say he was the most wonderful father in the world."

^ Don't manipulate me with facts when I just feel that I know better. The man was gay, GAY. I just know it.

I read several biographies of the Marx Brothers back in the day, individually and collectively, and yeah. I always wondered about Harpo's orientation. Didn't marry until he was fifty, adopted children, gay best friend... how could a person who knows anything about humans not wonder?

But all we can ever do is wonder, because Harpo was born in the 19th century and was of a generation that really did not speak of "the love that dare not speak its name". What I do know is that Harpo's wife really loved Harpo, Woolcott loved him, all the New York intellectuals of the day loved him, his family loved him, everyone he knew loved him, and the public loved him! Who the hell knows how he responded to all that love sexually, I don't suppose it matters.

This is all quite mysterious to me. As you, r102, put things in historic perspective, it sounds like Harpo could have suppressed some gay proclivities. Since homosexuality was a crime at least in some states, I am sure he couldn't just live it out easily, or at all. And yet, he didn't seem to have a problem with living out nudity - which wasn't really a tolerated state either back then. And the Marx brothers did not exactly shy away from disrupting social standards. Harpo's lifestyle would suggest that he picked his battles, or nudity was less frowned upon than being gay. There is also the aspect that bromances seemed to be much more accepted even among straight men back then, than after WW2.

Nobody really knows what was up with Harpo, certainly none of his biographers did. There were signs from childhood on that Harpo was different somehow, his family thought he was slower than his brothers, and he had so much difficulty with schoolwork that he dropped out of school in the *second grade* and got a job, and was barely literate as an adult. Maybe he had a lower IQ than the rest of his family (his brothers were reportedly intelligent to brilliant), maybe he had learning disabilities in an era when nobody had a clue about some things, but since he lived in an era when children could hold full-time jobs, and worked in a field where book-learning didn't matter, and didn't see experts about his differences as an adult because he had a great life on his own terms... we'll never know what was going on with the man.

Anyway, artsy nude photos were marginally acceptable in the early 1900s, stripping off at parties was acceptable in some social circles, and none of the normal rules apply to a person that everyone in the universe loves.

Hideous.

The people insisting this shows he was gay overlook he was one of a group who knew they could get away with anything.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐱 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠

Irving Thalberg was an executive at MGM Studios. As the man responsible for working with the Marx Brothers to bring A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races to the screen, he was well respected and liked by the comedic brothers. Thalberg had one characteristic the brothers disliked, however: lack of punctuality.

Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx had already achieved fame on the stage and had grown accustomed to being treated with the respect that typically comes with stardom. Their earliest meetings with Thalberg taught them a different lesson. They arrived punctually for appointments, only to find Thalberg’s office shut.

The brothers tried waiting patiently. Then they attempted other techniques to get Thalberg’s attention. They even tried blowing cigar smoke under his door and yelling, “Fire!” in a vain attempt to get him to open the door and let them in.

Once they had an appointment at 10:00 a.m. Thalberg kept them waiting until 5:00. When he finally beckoned for them to enter the office, Groucho would have none of it. He told Thalberg that they would be back at 10:00 the next morning, and that he had better not keep them waiting.

The next morning, the boys were there promptly at 10:00. At 10:30, Thalberg let them in, but before they could get down to business, he excused himself and left to meet with someone else. This was too much for the irritated Marx Brothers, who quickly devised a way to drive home the importance of punctuality. When Thalberg returned to his office, he was met with the sight of Groucho, Chico, and Harpo, squatting nude in front of his fireplace, roasting potatoes on sticks.

This seemed to do the trick, and for several weeks, Thalberg was quite punctual in all of his meetings with the Marx Brothers. The lesson did not stick, however. A few weeks after the naked potato-roasting incident, the boys showed up for a meeting and were kept waiting once again. This time they found a number of heavy file cabinets and barricaded the office door. It took Thalberg an hour to get into his office.

From that point forward, Thalberg was never late to a meeting with the Marx Brothers.

Harpo was an expert bridge player. He also was a completely self taught musician. And of course he was a brilliant comedian. He was TALENTED, not "different."

That's a great peek behind the curtain, R106.

Here's another peek:

Ben Hecht’s wife Rose, at a dinner in 1940, described Harpo as “the only normal man in Hollywood.” She elaborated:

"Harpo is one of the few men I know who hasn’t spent an hour on the couch. He’s the only man I know who hasn’t even talked about being analyzed. He’s happily married. His son has reached the age of two without once being taken to a child psychologist. Harpo has no enemies. He’s never gone on a diet or taken a sleeping pill. He’s not money-mad or driven by ambition. He’s mature. He’s adjusted. He’s a breath of fresh air in a town full of neurotic exhibitionists and show-offs."

Sounds like he was a creative, silly, happy, playful, caring, cool, universally beloved guy.

Salvador Dali was in love with Harpo. Obsessed with him. My friend actually created a graphic novel based on an unfinished Marx Bros screenplay written by Dali. The script was totally, totally batshit. They all laughed at it behind Dali's back, and then promptly forgot about it. (Obviously, the film never got made.)

The manuscript was lost for decades until my buddy rediscovered it, and viola! "Giraffes on Horeseback Salad."

Arthur Marx said the only time he saw his father Groucho cry was at Harpo's funeral.

Harpo was not formally educated but he was a member of the Algonquin Roundtable so he was by no means illiterate.

Yes, of all the brothers, Harpo was the one who hung out with all the literary intellectuals, like Dorothy Parker and George S. Kaufman.

Harpo was very good friends with George Burns and Gracie Allen. They adopted their two kids from the same private agency that Harpo and Susan used. George mentions Harpo many times in his books -always saying what a great guy he was, and how much fun he was to be around. Groucho, on the other hand, was very aptly named according to George.

The Irving Thalberg story that R106 shared is a Hollywood legend. It seems that the Marx brothers were known for dropping their pants at the slightest provocation. It could possibly be a generational thing, as there were a lot of other entertainers who were the same.

R109

I’m obsessed with this story.

I hope a DLer has the winning bid so we can hang it in the clubhouse!

R115 - the He-Man Woman Haters Club......

R114, It's wild, right?

I can't decide which is weirder - Salvidor Dali's obsession with Harpo, or Bud Cort accidentally swallowing one of Groucho's teeth!

Groucho Marx, in his lonely later years, became involved with a crazy woman named Erin Fleming. She was decades younger than him. She was instrumental in staging a "comeback" for him, having him do shows and appearances at his advanced age. She encouraged him to hang out with young stars of the era, hence his "friendship" with weirdos like Bud Cort. He did things like that because she wanted him to. One good thing she did was lobby to get him an honorary Oscar. His his acceptance speech he said she "makes my life worth living." But she treated him like shit, berating him in public for things like coughing. After he died there was some big court case about his money; Fleming was ordered to repay $472,000 to Groucho's estate. She later became a bag lady and eventually committed suicide. Poor Groucho. Couldn't he have found a better companion than the atrocious Erin Fleming?

Groucho was a piece of work himself.

There were six boys in the Marx family counting Manfred who died as an infant. Odds are one of them was gay.

[quote] Odds are one of them was gay.

Why is that? Do you think every family has at least one gay person in it? That's really ridiculous.

Yeah it would be ridiculous - if he actually had said that. But he didn't say every family. He was talking about a family with six sons. Maybe one out of six is still not likely enough. But it's likelier than one out of two. The odds certainly increase.

Guessing Harpo saw his other brothers' unhappy marriages and had no interest in trying to blend the busyness of a show-business life (and access to a lot of women) with a domestic lifestyle, and wisely waited until his career slowed down and he was ready to commit to marriage. After marrying, he remained in love and very devoted to his wife for almost 30 years until his death.

(I once heard Groucho's oldest daughter say that when she was growing up she would sometimes ride her bike to Harpo and his wife's house to get away from her unhappy home, and she mentioned how happy their home always was.)

(brothers, not "other" brothers)

R123 That makes me feel all warm inside. Very sweet. Bet he was a wonderful, kind and fun uncle. Thank God for Harpo in that family.

They didn't call back him Harpoon for nothing.

In their youth Harpo and Chico were often mistaken for twins. That changed as Chico's looks became dissipated.

Harpo wasn't the only one who sent nude pictures as a joke.

[quote] he remained in love and very devoted to his wife

R123 Allegedly - you weren't there, I assume

[quote][R123] Allegedly - you weren't there, I assume

No, but that's what he said in his autobiography.

Nobody is ever untruthful when writing about themselves!🙄

[quote] Nobody is ever untruthful when writing about themselves!

So you think Harpo was lying about his love for his wife because he was secretly a homosexual? My first guess would have been that you're Scotty Bowers, but that crazy queen has kicked the bucket So maybe you're Darwin Porter. Anyway, all these attempts to make Harpo into a gay guy who was married just for show are hilarious. NO evidence exists that he (or any of his brothers) were gay. None.

The man who founded Oprah's studio

Son of Karl

Interesting tidbit for the occultists: Harpo was going to be the Fool in Aleister Crowley’s “Thoth Tarot” (painted by Lady Freida Harris), but her design was scrapped, possibly because it was the only card that had a pop culture reference; it didn’t fit in with the other cards in the deck.

I was prompted by our current theatre thread to bump this old thread.

Thanks to all who contributed to it, especially r15 and r24. It was a fun read.

For someone who never spoke onscreen and has been labelled simple, Harpo seems an incredibly complex and interesting man. Maybe he had some inner demons, but they certainly never surfaced anywhere unless it was just in being the perpetual beloved kook. But there is zero evidence anywhere that this act, if it even was one, ever varied in any part of his life.

Well, now I'm speechless.

This thread triggers me... to watch one of the Marx Brothers' movies again. Duck Soup probably, right?

I'm actually surprised that the Marx Brothers aren't better known today. I think their sense of humor is still timely even after almost a hundred years.

Just because...

So that's where Chuck Berry got his duckwalk, r140!

Harpo and George Burns were very close. Make of that what you will.

Barbarians, they stole his foreskin. He should have said something.

Was he the inspiration for Teller of Penn & Teller?