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1. Gummo Marx -- Marx Brothers
   On-stage and in film, the Marx Brothers' antic comedy won millions of fans and left a major pop cultural legacy. Movies like The Coconuts (1929) and A Night at the Opera (1935) remain popular, and both Groucho Marx's wisecracking persona and Harpo Marx's silent, woman-crazed clown remain well-known icons. From their beginnings in vaudeville during the 1910s, to their rise as popular film comics during the Depression, Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, and Zeppo Marx delivered an energetic, anarchic comedy that seemed to overflow both the stage and the screen. The Marx Brothers were the sons of Jewish immigrants from Germany, and all were born in New York City to Simon Marrix (later changed to Marx) and Minnie Schonberg. The first son, Manfred, died in infancy. Leonard Marx was born on March 22, 1887, and later adopted Chico as his stage name; Adolph Marx (later Arthur) was born on November 23, 1888, and adopted the stage name Harpo; Julius Henry Marx was born on October 2, 1890, and used Groucho as his stage name; Milton Marx was born on October 23, 1892, and adapted the alias Gummo; and Herbert Marx, born on February 25, 1901, would be known as Zeppo.
2. Harpo Marx -- Marx Brothers
   Adolph Arthur Marx, popularly known as Harpo Marx, (November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964) was one of the Marx Brothers, a group of Vaudeville and Broadway theatre entertainers who later achieved fame as comedians in the Motion Picture industry. He was well known by his trademarks: he played the harp, never talked, he often used a horn or whistled to communicate with people and frequently used props in sight gags — for instance, in Horse Feathers, he is told that he cannot burn a candle at both ends. He immediately produces, from within his coat, a lit candle burning at both ends.
3. Gummo Marx -- Al Shean
   ANIL MARGSAHAYAM (Leo “Chico” Marx) is excited to be returning to 42nd Street Moon. He was most recently seen as Jason in Wit with the Palo Alto Players. Some of his other credits include: The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Hooray for What!, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Anything Goes. Anil graduated from the University of San Francisco with a degree in Psychology.
4. Groucho Marx -- Erin Fleming
   In the early 1970s, Groucho made a comeback of sorts doing a live one-man show, including one recorded at Carnegie Hall in 1972 and released as a double album, An Evening with Groucho, on A&M Records. He ... developed a friendship with television host Dick Cavett, and became a frequent guest on Cavett's late-night talk show. His previous works once again became popular and were accompanied by new books of interviews and other transcribed conversations by Richard J. Anobile and Charlotte Chandler. He had become quite frail by this time and his last few years were accompanied by descent into senility and a controversy over a companionship he had developed with Erin Fleming, which consequently raised disputes over his estate.
5. Dialectical Materialism -- Karl Marx
   D[I]alectical materialism is the world outlook and method of scientific socialism. It holds that every natural, social and intellectual formation is the transitory product of given material conditions. That all phenomena come into being, develop and eventually perish as a result of the action of the contradictions within them. For Marx and Engels dialectical materialism provided the means by which the illusions of religion could be dispelled, philosophy could be retrieved from speculation to serve the liberation of humanity, and theory could be put on a scientific basis. Above all, dialectical materialism is the conception of the world which conforms with the interests of the self-emancipation of the working class and the struggle for communism and human fulfilment.
6. Communism -- Karl Marx
   Communism in its original meaning is a social theory and political movement for the direct and communal control of society towards the common benefits of all members, the society being the communist society, see below. The dominant tendency within the communist movement is inspired by Karl Marx's theory. Within Marxist communism the largest trends are inspired by the writings and actions of Vladimir Ulyianov (Vladimir Lenin).
7. Harpo Marx -- Al Shean
   (In Harpo's autobiography, he says that mother Minnie Marx sent him the harp.) Harpo learned how to hold it properly by going to a five-and-dime store where he found a picture of a girl playing a harp. No one in town knew how to play the harp, so Harpo tuned it as best he could, starting with one basic note and tuning it from there. Three years later he found out he had tuned it incorrectly, but he could not tune it properly because if he had, the strings would have broken each night. His way placed much less tension on the strings. Although he played this way for the rest of his life, he did try to learn how to play correctly, and he spent considerable money hiring the best teachers. They... spent their time listening to him, fascinated by the way he played.
8. Ringo Starr -- Richard Starkey
   Ringo and His All-Starrs exude the love, joy and phenomenal playing that shine from the Starr at the center. The shows draw fans of all ages and sizes, as parents and their kids (some grown, some not) come to enjoy a summer night out with fantastic music, performed by musicians who love to play. The All-Starr line-up includes: Edgar Winter, Sheila E., Rod Argent (of the Zombies), Richard Marx, Hamish Stuart (of the Average White Band) and Billy Squier.
9. Richard Pryor -- Humor
   "I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, 'Ain't that the truth!' Richard Pryor is the truth machine. He has taken black street humor to its highest universal level." -- Quincy Jones
10. Richard Farnsworth -- Green Gables
    Farnsworth gab 1937 sein Filmdebüt als Stunt-Reiter in Die Marx-Brothers auf der Rennbahn unter der Regie von Sam Wood. In den Jahren danach arbeitete er als Stuntman in verschiedenen Filmen, unter anderem in Die zehn Gebote von Cecil B. DeMille (1956) und Spartacus von Stanley Kubrick (1960). Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch seine Rollen in Western-Filmen, etwa in Wer schluckt schon gerne blaue Bohnen? (1976) mit Goldie Hawn und George Segal, in Fernsehserien wie Roots (1977) und Anne auf Green Gables (1985) sowie in der Stephen-King-Verfilmung Misery (1990).

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