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The Cocoanuts is a 1929 pre-Code musical comedy film starring the Marx Brothers ( Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo ). Produced for Paramount Pictures by Walter Wanger, who is not credited, the film also stars Mary Eaton, Oscar Shaw, Margaret Dumont and Kay Francis. The first sound film to credit more than one director ( Robert Florey and Joseph ...
The Cocoanuts is a film adaptation of a Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, starring the Marx Brothers as a hotel owner and his employees in Florida. The film features musical numbers, romance, comedy, and a jewel robbery plot, as well as the famous "Why a duck?" scene.
- (8.2K)
- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Robert Florey, Joseph Santley
- 1929-08-03
While running a hotel in Florida, three clowns get caught up in the search for stolen jewels.
- 70 min
- 175.6K
- Nadine Scwartzman
The Cocoanuts was filmed at the studio's Astoria, N.Y., sound stages during the day, and in the evening the Marx Brothers raced back to Manhattan to appear in their stage show. The plot of The Cocoanuts takes place at a resort hotel, giving Kaufman opportunities to lampoon the big Florida development boom of the 1920s. Groucho runs the place ...
- Joseph Santley, Robert Florey
- Groucho Marx
The Cocoanuts was written for the Marx Brothers after the success of their hit Broadway revue I'll Say She Is (1924). The Cocoanuts is set against the backdrop of the 1920s Florida Land Boom, which was followed by the inevitable bust. Groucho is a hotel proprietor, land impresario, and con man, assisted and hampered by two inept grifters, Chico ...
The Cocoanuts. This was the Marx Brothers' first movie (if you don't count "Humor Risk") and was one of the earliest sound films ever made. Groucho plays Mr. Hammer, a Florida hotel owner during the Florida land boom in the 1920's, desperately trying to unload real estate on unsuspecting buyers. Zeppo is the desk clerk (Jamison), Chico is an ...
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The Cocoanuts. 1929 1h 36m Musical Comedy List. 95% Tomatometer 22 Reviews 69% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings In an effort to keep his business, Hotel de Cocoanuts, from bankruptcy, owner Hammer ...
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- Musical, Comedy
