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Susan Fleming appeared in three Broadway shows and twenty-eight
films before she turned her back on a show business career she
never really enjoyed or wanted. The role of her lifetime came when
she married Harpo Marx in 1936. Together, they raised four adopted
children and enjoyed one of Hollywood's happiest and most
successful unions. But their twenty-year age difference made Susan
a young widow in 1964. On her path to Hollywood, Susan worked in
Broadway musicals produced by Florenz Ziegfeld and George White and
befriended a young dancer who would later be known as Paulette
Goddard. In Hollywood, she appeared in films with stars like John
Wayne, W.C. Fields, and Katharine Hepburn and worked at all the
major studios. But it wasn't until she fell in love with a
confirmed bachelor, twenty years older than her, that she found her
purpose. Her story is the counterpoint to the beloved and acclaimed
Harpo Marx autobiography, Harpo Speaks! Susan's frank, opinionated
perspective provides a true look behind the curtain and details
Harpo's last years, following the publication of his own book.
Susan's account of her more than thirty-year adventure with Harpo
includes encounters with people like Charlie Chaplin, William
Randolph Hearst, Salvador Dali, Somerset Maugham, Joan Crawford,
Howard Hughes, George S. Kaufman, Helen Keller, Oscar Levant, Jean
Harlow, Bugsy Siegel, Samuel Goldwyn, Menachem Begin, Ginger
Rogers, Alexander Woollcott, and of course, the Marx Brothers.
Susan provides an inside look at the family and pulls no punches
when discussing her brothers-in-law, who weren't always her
favorite comedians.
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