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ZEPPO MARX 2007 SWEET SPOT CLASSIC AUTO CUT. Herbert Manfred Marx (February 25, 1901 âe" November 30, 1979) is best known as Zeppo Marx, the name he used when he performed with his brothers, The Marx Brothers.Zeppo appeared in the first five Marx Brothers movies, as a straight man and romantic lead, before leaving the team. According to a 1925 newspaper article, he also made a solo appearance in the Adolphe Menjou comedy A Kiss in the Dark, but no known copy of the film exists, and it is not clear if he actually appeared in the finished film. [2] He stood in for Groucho when the brothers performed on stage, and he was reputed to be very funny offstage[3]. As the youngest and having grown up watching his brothers, he could fill in for and imitate any of the others when illness kept them from performing. "He was so good as Captain Spaulding [in Animal Crackers] that I would have let him play the part indefinitely, if they had allowed me to smoke in the audience," Groucho recalled. (Zeppo did impersonate Groucho in the film version of Animal Crackers. Groucho was unavailable to film the scene in which the Beaugard painting is stolen, so the script was contrived to include a power failure which allowed Zeppo to play the part of Spaulding in near-darkness.)[4] However, he never invented a comic persona of his own that could stand up against those of his brothers,[3] even though the role he formerly filled would continue to exist to some extent in the brothers' remaining films. He also had perhaps the best singing voice among the four brothers.

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