Guide to the Harpo Marx papers NMAH.AC.1290 NMAH Staff Archives Center, National Museum of American History P.O. Box 37012 Suite 1100, MRC 601 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 [email protected] http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 2 Series : Sound Recordings: Original Audio Discs, 1947, 1949, 1956...................... 2 Series : Working Box 1............................................................................................ 6 Series : Working Box 2............................................................................................ 8 Series : Working Box 3.......................................................................................... 11 Series : Working Box 4.......................................................................................... 13 Series : Working Box 5.......................................................................................... 14 Series : Working Box 6.......................................................................................... 15 Harpo Marx Papers NMAH.AC.1290 Collection Overview Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History Title: Harpo Marx Papers Identifier: NMAH.AC.1290 Date: circa 1900-1964 Extent: 7 Cubic feet Creator: Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964 Language: English . Administrative Information Acquisition Information Collection donated by William Woolcott Marx of Rancho Mirage, California in 2012. Processing Information Collection is unprocessed. Preferred Citation Harpo Marx Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Restrictions Collection is open for research. Conditions Governing Use Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions. Page 1 of 15 Sound Recordings: Original Audio Discs Harpo Marx Papers NMAH.AC.1290 Container Listing Sound Recordings: Original Audio Discs, 1947, 1949, 1956 English. West View Hospital (Parts 1 & 3), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 2 & 4), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 5 & 7), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 6 & 8), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 9 & 11), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 10 & 12), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 13 & 15), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 14 & 16), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 17 & 19), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 18 & 20), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 21 & 23), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 22 & 24), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 25 & 27), 1947 June 2 West View Hsopital (Parts 26 & 28), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 29 & 31), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 30 & 32), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 33 & 35), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 34 & 36), 1947 June 2 West View Hospital (Parts 37 & 39), 1947 June 2 Page 2 of 15 Sound Recordings: Original Audio Discs Harpo Marx Papers NMAH.AC.1290 West View Hospital (Parts 38 & 40), 1947 June 2 The Jack Benny Program (Parts 1 & 4), 1949 January 16 The Jack Benny Program (Parts 3 & 6), 1949 January 16 The Eternal Light (Parts 2 & 4), 1956 December 27 The Eternal Light (Parts 1 & 3), 1956 December 27 (dub), 1953 December 6 [Artists Alliance, Production 20,000] (TBI-3), date unknown Probably from Love Happy [Artists Alliance: Hearts and ?], date unknown Probably from Love Happy [Artists Alliance: Production 2,000] (PB20-2], date unknown Probably from Love Happy [Marx Bros. #20,000] (Harp), date unkown Probably from Love Happy [Marx Bros. #20,000] (Harp), date unknown Probably from Love Happy [#2 1st Show], 1945 August 30 [#3 1st Show], 1945 August 30 [#4 2nd Show], 1945 August 30 [#4A Film Sound Track Love HappyDance Prod.], date unknown [Prod. 1187/Scene 2409-Cued/ Harpo's Bazaar], 1941 April 19 [Prod. 1120/Scene 2407/ Harpo's Solo] ["Mamie" New Demonstration] (Picture Mamie Stover), date unknown [Winston Churchill Imitation from Hollywood Calling], 1950 January 8 [Harpo Marx] (Mercury Records), date unknown Page 3 of 15 Sound Recordings: Original Audio Discs Harpo Marx Papers NMAH.AC.1290 Song Titles: "All the Things You Are" "Harpo Boogie Woogie" "I Got Rhythm" "Solitude" "Swanee River" by Harpo Marx, date unknown [Harpo Marx Sound Effects], date unknown [Harpo], date unknown [Carnival: King and Country Call; Carnival: Romantic Love Dream], date unknown [Tea for Two: Harp by Harpo], dtae unknown "Autumn Leaves" "My Funny Valentine", date unknown [Harpo Harp Solo], date unknown "Thinking of You" "That's All", date unknown "Tenderly" "Can't Help Lovin' dat man", date unknown "Lullaby Doll" "They Say It's Wonderful", date unknown "Honeysuckle Rose" "Ash Grove", date unknown "Yesterdays" "Guardian Angels", date unknown Harpo Marx and Harp with the Riverside Symphony, date unknown Harpo in Hi-Fi, 1957 [Unidentified] [Unidentified] [Unidentified] [3A; 3B] [A Portrait of Groucho Marx; A Portrait of Harpo Marx]? [Unidentified] Page 4 of 15 Sound Recordings: Original Audio Discs Harpo Marx Papers NMAH.AC.1290 [957], 1937 February 11 [Undientified] [Unidentified] [Unidentified] "Anything You Can Do I can Do Better", date unknown Melinda and Groucho [Harpo Harp Solo], date unkown [Unidentified] Harpo at Work "Sweet Sue" /"My Blue Heaven" Harpo at Work "Sweet Sue" /"My Blue Heaven" Harpo at Work "Sweet Sue" /"My Blue Heaven" Harpo at Work "Sweet Sue" /"My Blue Heaven" Harpo at Work " Imagination" / "Taking a Chance on Love" Harpo at Work " I Got Rythm [sic]" / "In mY Solitude" Harpo at Work "Harpo Boogie"/"All the Things" Harpo at Work "Laura" Return to Table of Contents Page 5 of 15 Working Box 1 Harpo Marx Papers NMAH.AC.1290 Working Box 1 Box 1, Folder 1 "Harpo Marx eulogies", also contains clippings about his death Box 1, Folder 2 "Great clippings -- Harpo" Box 1, Folder 3 Untitled, but contains photocopies of articles and of photos Box 1, Folder 4 Program from Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 105th Anniversary Concert and Ball, 1962 Box 1, Folder 5 Program, International Championship Rodeo, Chicago, October 11-21, 1951, 1951 Box 1, Folder 6 Program, Riverside Symphony Orchestra, undated Box 1, Folder 7 Program, London Palladium, Val Parnell Presents Harpo and Chico Marx, undated Box 1, Folder 8 The North Shore Players, The Yellow Jacket, 1941 Box 1, Folder 9 Bucks County Playhouse, The Man Who Came to Dinner, 1941 Box 1 Scrapbook containing original photographs and clippings, Vaudeville era Box 1 Plastic envelope containing photographs (not originals) and clippings relating to the Marx Brothers Box 1 Diary of Billy Marx from a European trip, 1949 Box 1 Harpo telegrams (photocopies) Box 1 Harpo FBI (contains dossier on Harpo Marx), 1940s Box 1 "Woollcott copies", photocopies of Alexander Woollcott's letters to Harpo Marx , 1930s-1940s Box 1 "Truman-Harriman-[John] Tunney-Warren -- copies" (photocopied letters) Box 1 Alexander Woollcott letters to Harpo Marx, photocopies, 1930s-1940s Box 1 Original letters to Harpo Marx from Alexander Woollcott, 1930s-1940s, 1930s-1940s Page 6 of 15 Working Box 1 Harpo Marx Papers NMAH.AC.1290 Box 1 Clippings; Photocopy of a contract for The Colgate Comedy Hour, 1954; Box 1 Envelope marked "Max Gordon", containing three letters from Harpo Marx to Max Gordon and one from Bernard Baruch to Gordon; Box 1 Letter from Harpo Marx to family from Owensboro, Kentucky, 1958; Box 1 Letter from Harpo Marx to family from Miami, date unclear; Box 1 Originals of letters from Truman, Harriman, et al, referenced above, 1950s; Box 1 Copy of book Harpo Speaks Box 1 Copy of book Son of Harpo Speaks by Bill Marx Box 1 Audio book, Son of Harpo Speaks by Bill Marx Box 2 Audio book, Son of Harpo Speaks by Bill Marx Return to Table of Contents Page 7 of 15 Working Box 2 Harpo Marx Papers NMAH.AC.1290 Working Box 2 Box 2 "Mexican Hat Dance" (mss. for parts for various instruments), Chico Marx Box 2 "Mexican Hat Dance", parts, manuscripts, Chico Marx Box 2 "Theme" (mss. for parts for various instruments), Chico Marx Box 2 "Gypsy Love Song", (mss. for parts for various instruments), Chico Marx Box 2 Mss. for "Bali Bali" and "Woodpecker Song", Chico Marx Box 2 "Woodpecker", (mss. for parts for various instruments), Chico Marx Box 2 "Who's Sorry Now?" (mss. for parts for various instruments), Chico Marx Box 2 "Ain't Necessarily So", (mss. for parts for various instruments), Chico Marx Box 2 "Captain Spalding", (mss. for parts for various instruments), Chico Marx Box 2 "I Came to Scotland", (mss. for parts for various instruments), Chico Marx Box 2 "Bali Bali", (mss. for parts for various instruments), Chico Marx Box 2 "Beer Barrel Polka", (mss. for parts for various instruments), Chico Marx Box 2 "Woodpecker Song", (mss. for parts for various instruments), Chico Marx Box 2 "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles", (mss. for parts for various instruments), Chico Marx Box 2 "Mexican Hat Dance", (mss. for parts for various instruments), Chico Marx Box 2 Sheet music, "I'm in Love with Vienna" and "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" Box 2 "Saints Sequence", (mss. for parts for various instruments),