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Even if you can't attend our in-person screening, you can watch this iconic Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper romance on the Internet Archive!

Put on your virtual top hat 🎩, get your popcorn 🍿 & enjoy this 1930 classic, newly in the public domain this year!

📽️ https://archive.org/details/morocco-1930-marlene-dietrich-gary-cooper-full-movie?start=55

#PublicDomian #PreCode #ClassicCinema

Posters for “Monte Carlo” (1930) from The USA and Sweden
#Comedon #MonteCarlo #PreCode
The music for “The Cocoanuts” stage show and film was composed by none other than Irving Berlin
#SatMat #TheCocoanuts #TheMarxBrothers #IrvingBerlin #PreCodeApril #PreCode
“The Cocoanuts” (1929) was Kay Francis’s second feature film and it was The Marx Brothers first “official” feature film.
#SatMat #TheCocoanuts #KayFrancis #TheMarxBrothers #PreCodeApril #PreCode #comedy
I was embarrassingly old before I realized that Groucho’s trademark eyebrows and mustache were grease paint 😶 BUT he did grow a real mustache later in life
#SatMat #PreCodeApril #TheCocoanuts #GrouchoMarx #TheMarxBrothers #comedy #PreCode
“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!
#SatMat #PreCodeApril #TheCocoanuts #MargaretDumont #TheMarxBrothers #comedy #PreCode
And now our feature presentation: “The Cocoanuts” (1929) staring Harpo, Chico, Groucho AND Zeppo Marx (https://youtu.be/9FxpREDf_l0?si=4GvI__dJtRR4hvS9)
#SatMat #PreCodeApril #TheCocoanuts #TheMarxBrothers #PreCode
Next up is “The Stolen Jools” (1931) (https://youtu.be/Y0GSQpZu7AQ?si=IZS5wvGAuq9ea9u-) which is stuffed with some of the biggest stars of the stage & screen of the 1920s and early 1930s to raise funds for the National Vaudeville Artists Tuberculosis Sanitarium
#RetroView #PreCodeApril #TheStolenJools #PreCode
This print of “The Hot Spot” (1931) was restored from the only known 16mm copy
#RetroView #TheHotSpot #PreCodeApril #PreCode #FrankMcHugh
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from #SilentFilm & #PreCode -era films it’s that folx got publically rowdy and destructive quickly and at the drop of a hat!
#RetroView #TheHotSpot