Chico Marx (as Harpo) on I've Got a Secret 21/04/1954 

Yeah, I thought he looked odd right away as well. I thought to myself that Harpo in his old age was looking a lot like Chico. I wrote it off as family resemblance until they revealed the secret. 😀

As a “Marxist”, I wasn’t fooled either.

@@GTurch52 ❤️❤️Love this comment

On the other hand, the real Harpo, anarchist that he was, might have reversed them on purpose--making the end result, amusingly, the same.

u gotta remb tho chico was older than harpo too

@@smurfthumper I think Chico was reversing them on purpose. It made the contestants' time run out faster and kept them from catching on as quickly as they might have...assuming it wasn't rigged in the first place.

I wouldn’t expect any of the three main brothers to follow the rules. They were often known to do the exact opposite.

I think Chico needed the money

That sure looks like a carton of. cigarettes handed to him at the end.

Unfortunately, Gary Moore, a talented host, was diagnosed with throat cancer in the mid-70s and left television at that time.

Here’s a quarter buy a clue the Commercial Sponsor was Cavalier Cigarettes. A few game shows had Cigarette sponsors at one time or another

@@Renshen1957 I saw a commercial for I think Winston ciggs with FRED and Barney smoking. It was black and white. The Flintstons early 1960's

@@dustervideo The Commercial is on RU-vid in Black and White. Most homes families owned B & W TV’s as Color was expensive and TVs were built to last and be repaired not the land fill electronics, some of the televisions in our home were from 1950…That being said I had watched the Flintstones in 1960-1961 don’t remember the episodes or the Winston Flintstones, but remember once being locked out in the backyard, at age 4, 1961…pounding on the back door of the house with my fists yelling “Wilma!” Fred Flintstone style. My Dad finally purchased a Color TV in 1969 for the Apollo 11 Moon landing…and the most reliable camera for images (after being subjected to the Gs of liftoff was the original B&W Philo T. Farnsworth Camera Electronic Camera System. I miss the Old CRT

Yeah, I noticed it was chico right away too! Haha, I always just figured back then people didn't have the courtesy of the TV and Internet access we have today, so they didn't have the way that they look burned into their heads like we today do..

@MFPhoto1, you're close! Zeppo substituted for Groucho in one of their very last vaudeville tours, playing scenes from their Broadway successes. Groucho was very ill with appendicitis. He had missed most of the last two weeks of Animal Crackers, their last Broadway show, and his role of Captain Spaulding was played by his understudy. During this tour of the RKO vaudeville circuit after Animal Crackers ended, Groucho finally had to have an appendectomy. Zeppo took his place, and audiences laughed in all the same places. However, RKO went ballistic, cutting their salary and threatening to cancel and sue. They were paying for four Marxes! Groucho had to return to performing during his recovery from surgery. His stamina allowed him to do two shows a day of vigorous buffoonery, but they were performing four times a day. Zeppo took his place for two of the performances daily. RKO went crazy. Apparently they would have preferred Groucho's dying on stage to Zeppo playing his part. Harpo and Chico looked very much alike in their younger years. Occasionally in their early vaudeville days they switched parts for fun, but not often because the harp and piano numbers were important to the act. Chico was ill for several weeks, requiring surgery, during the 1913 season. Harpo took his piano numbers, and George Lee, a supporting comedian (who often got the best notices) and Chico's last vaudeville partner before he joined his brothers' act, was listed as "Leonard Marx" (Chico's real name) in the playbill. But Chico's actual role was dropped temporarily, with Lee playing his own usual role, just using Chico's name. For their movies A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Go West and A Night in Casablanca, the brothers took the key comedy scenes out on brief five-shows-a-day vaudeville tours to hone the comedy. During one performance of scenes from A Day at the Races, Chico and Harpo switched parts, just to see if Chico's daughter Maxine, who was supposed to be in the audience, would notice. Sadly, Maxine missed that one performance, having caught the other four that day, to get her hair done. The movie with the scene in which Chico and Harpo dress as Groucho, and Harpo and Groucho perform a mirror scene, was Duck Soup.

There was a vaudeville notice from the 1910s that said that Groucho played Gummo's part and vice-versa, while Chico played Harpo's role and vice-versa, but when asked about it six decades later Groucho denied it had happened.

@@kevinwachs5905 Yes, it was Duck Soup. Horse Feathers was their spoof on college films. It's not like me to get them mixed up. I really should not post so late at night! Their on-the-road, pre-production performances of A Day at the Races were performed in movie theaters where MGM films were being shown. They also did this previously for A Night at the Opera. It was Irving Thalberg's solution to a problem -- how do you combine Thalberg's methodical methods of filmmaking with the Marx Brothers' spontaneous style of comedy? Answer: Go on the road before live audiences, vary the timing and dialog, and note how many laughs you get. It worked!

@@MFPhoto1, it may have been Thalberg's idea, and he certainly authorized and arranged for the tours, but the Marxes had always been adamant that audiences were the only reliable editors of their material. George S Kaufman wrote a magazine piece in the early 30s explaining that the Four Marx Bros taught him to listen to the audience. Before working with them, Kaufman says that he blamed the audience if they failed to laugh at something that he considered funny, and he stubbornly stuck with his own judgment. The attitude of the Bros was if it got a laugh it stayed in, but if it didn't they replaced it with something else-- either by tweaking the line, or by introducing a totally different one. S J Perelman claimed that Groucho received his funniest lines with the query would it play in Peru? Groucho meant Peru, Indiana, one of the many Midwestern towns that the Bros played regularly in their days in small-time vaudeville. It didn't matter if the writers and Groucho thought it was funny; the true test was a live audience. Oddly enough, Perelman's brother-in-law, Nathaniel West, gives the "will it play in Peru?" line to Claude Estees in Day of the Locust. Claude is based on Perelman. Anyway, despite the actual success of Monkey Business, Horsefeathers and Duck Soup (Duck Soup was a hit, although histories say or imply otherwise), Groucho's dour outlook regarded them as failures, and attributed the failure to the fact that they hadn't been performed on stage. He felt that they shouldn't make any more pictures without first having another Broadway success. Chico was more optimistic about movies, which were more lucrative for less work. The vaudeville tryouts of the comedy scenes for A Night at the Opera was a compromise to assuage Groucho's insecurity. By 1934 all vaudeville was in movie houses. Pure live vaudeville was dead. The Palace closed in 1932.

No problem!

You and I are in the same boat

@@bombs5050 my all time favorite Marx Brothers film is Night at the Opera. These men were fantastic!

It does remind me of that too! I'm glad you enjoyed! Thank you

I'm glad you enjoyed! I don't have any content of that sort to upload, but I do have plans to upload some clips of Harpo that are impossible to find online.

@@bombs5050 awesome! ^_^ im so glad i got to see this!! 💓

@@AceripXF I just uploaded some harder to find clips of Harpo! Check my channel to view them!

@@bombs5050 i read an article that Harpo used to double for Chico since they look a lot alike

@@AceripXF According to Harpo's autobiography, when he was young he got a job at a speakeasy/brothel playing piano and was immediately insulted by the proprietor, who thought that he was Leonard (Chico) -- who the proprietor had just recently fired from the same job.

that was Groucho and Harpo, not Chico. One even substituted for the other on stage at least once.

@@jeffdeischer8692 It was Chico and Harpo. Read HARPO SPEAKS, or GROWING UP WITH CHICO, or pretty much any of the books about them.

I think I heard somewhere that Harpo could only play one piece. Substitution would be pretty funny then.

@@dickon728 Harpo knew two songs on the piano and could play them at different speeds, but that was all he had.

Groucho: It’s something. I don’t know what, but it’s something.

Harpo's eyes were much different

Harpo was also bald

I didn't really register the title coming in and settled down thinking I was watching Harpo. It took at least a minute...

Actually, it was a carton, not a case that he walked out with.

No kidding b&w TV pre colour !

@@echoecho3108 I was going to say… (I don't know if people know that expression. My mother used to use it to great effect. It's an expression of incredulity as in "whaaaaaa...?"). If I was given a case I'd take up smoking again. (Not really.)

Now you get a trip to the Marijuana dispensary! You know what's funny is all the "wonders MJ can do for the body" is the same things they said about tobacco 100 years ago. I don't know about you but I'm tired of going through neighborhoods smelling like @$$.

I was in 5-6 grade and remember watching the show.

And Dennis James did the nighttime version of The Price is Right.

Gosh, he’s so cute. Even at the age of 135.

@@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635 yes i celibrated his bday all day today

@@AceripXF Yep, I was also aware of his birthday. My "crush" on him has not faded. I see yours and Jessica's hasn't either.

Like amogus...

Is that a reference to him usually playing an Italian?

@@bombs5050 What's amogus?

Oh! The humanity!!

You beat me. I miss gilbert. And funnily I recognized it was Chico. because on the Gilbert show, I heard that the the brothers would swap roles for each other when one was ill.

Thats Garry Moore

Harpo not harper

@@AceripXF ... That's what I said

but chico was trying to be harpo so he COULDNT talk bc Harpo didnt talk in any of the films in order to be a good actor n trying to portray someone as accurately as possible then u wanna do everything THEY do

No problem! Chico and Harpo have one of my my favourite dynamics and I know plenty others feel the same, so I was on a mission to make this clip accessible for free.

@@bombs5050 i made an extra copy on my phone in case this gets taken down ive had vids saved in my folders in the past n then theyve gotten deleted or something

@@bombs5050 well u.deff succeeded i love a chico n harpo shipp n 2 of my fav marx bros (just got into them last yr) Chicos my main reason fot taking piano lessons my ranking: Chico Harpo Groucho Zeppo

@@bombs5050 i wonder wut chico said the sound cut out

@@AceripXF at the end, when Gary said he thinks he knew Harpo and got fooled by Chico, if you read Chico's lips he says; "I'm not very good at this." Poor guy, putting himself down. I thought he did a wonderful job

Or betting.on a Horse.

This is for the sinatra histing with don rigglesHim .ih well its explained not chico.ha ^loll

Yes, it was because he liked to chase after the chicks!

Mine too. Streets ahead.

Harpo is mine, but I love them all!

I uploaded this seconds ago where did you come from

Sinistarz I always watch videos like this

@@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635 same

Stupid comment.

@Jessica Mendoza, do you mean to say Chico's still alive? Because 135 is exactly how old Chico would have to be if he were alive today (born 3/22/1887).

I know. I recognized him as Chico right away.

@@texasmimi5566 me too only cos pics b4 i saw the vid how u been

Maybe they did know.

@@bernardbrenner6088 if they knew it was chico why would it have taken them so long to guess

@@AceripXF The host knew it would be obvious to the contestants that it was Chico, but he told them to pretend they didn't know. You can tell from the questions ("Does it involve one of your brothers?") that they probably did know. It really didn't take them very long.