The music for “The Cocoanuts” stage show and film was composed by none other than Irving Berlin
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The Marx Brothers did make a short in 1921 called “Humor Risk” but after being previewed once the film was never released and Groucho was rumored to have burnt the film negatives but who the fuck knows
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“The Cocoanuts” (1929) was Kay Francis’s second feature film and it was The Marx Brothers first “official” feature film.
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“The Cocoanuts” began life as one of The Marx Brothers’ stage shows which also starred their frequent collaborator Margaret Dumont. She went on to be in 6 more of their films!
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And now our feature presentation: “The Cocoanuts” (1929) staring Harpo, Chico, Groucho AND Zeppo Marx (https://youtu.be/9FxpREDf_l0?si=4GvI__dJtRR4hvS9)
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Need something to do Saturday afternoon? Drop by for #SatMat @ 4pm EST/3pm CST when we close out #PreCodeApril with The Marx Brothers in “The Cocoanuts” (1929). Playlist available here (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Zslnc5XTfvRH1jzK_x6mFj0VzA-nxCX&si=RsQTA7UReseUkInv) Hope y’all can make it💕
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For the record, I pulled “Extra! Extra!” (1931), another RKO Frank McHugh comedy short, b/c the sound was noticeably more wonky than the other films on the playlist. You can check it out for free here (https://youtu.be/fol8Tu3EE30?si=Br4VrboynDaElZA5)
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Our final comedy short is “The Wide Open Spaces” (1931) (https://youtu.be/cG7XRyUp0QI?si=8ATbI5ydT9tT_xBC) which was another film Frank McHugh made with “The Masquers Club of Hollywood”.. again, sorry about Richard Carlyle as the waking nightmare that is “The Masquer”
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