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For decades, Harpo Marx was the silent clown of the Marx Brothers—wild-haired, horn-wielding, and famously mute. But newly discovered 1964 recordings reveal a hidden side: Harpo speaking, even delivering a polished, politically savvy speech penned by Alexander Woollcott. At a charity fundraiser for the Riverside Symphony, he charmed audiences by narrating Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” blending his childhood love for storytelling with his brothers’ wit. This performance, his final public appearance before his death six months later, was accidentally recorded and painstakingly restored—offering fans a rare, moving glimpse of the man behind the mute legend.

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