Susan Marx,

93, who appeared in more than a dozen films in the 1930s opposite such stars as John Wayne and W.C. Fields and later married comedian Harpo Marx, died Sunday of a heart attack in Rancho Mirage, Calif..

Ms. Marx, who was born Susan Fleming, started her acting career in New York during the 1920s, where she appeared in the Broadway musical The Ziegfeld Follies.

She moved to Hollywood in the early 1930s to appear as Wayne's love interest in the western Range Feud and Fields' daughter in Million Dollar Legs.

As part of a publicity campaign for the 1932 comedy, Ms. Marx's legs were insured for a million dollars.

Ms. Marx and Harpo Marx adopted four children and later settled in Rancho Mirage.

John M. Brealey,

77, an accomplished conservator of paintings for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, died Tuesday in New York.

Mr. Brealey was the museum's chairman of paintings conservation from 1975 to 1989, offering annual five-day seminars in addition to his regular work as an art restorer.

While working at the Met, Mr. Brealey accepted requests from other museums seeking help with their art conservation. In 1984, Mr. Brealey helped restore Velazquez's Meninas at the Prado in Madrid. He then went on special leave from the Met to help reorganize the Prado's conservation department.

Charles Longenecker,

93, a radio producer who helped move television from live production to film, died Dec. 10 in Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Mr. Longenecker began working in radio in New York and moved to Los Angeles in 1937. In his early days at KNX, he worked with such radio stars as Lum and Amber, Edward Robinson and Kate Smith.

During the 1940s, he worked for the talent agency Myron Selznick & Co. and eventually headed its radio department. He helped choose radio scripts for such actors as Joan Bennett, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard and Fredric March.

Mr. Longenecker later formed a company called Telepak Inc. to package filmed shows for television.