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The Cocoanuts (1929) Marx Brothers Full Movie
My favorite Marx Brothers movie and also their first. An early talkie from 1929. A different plane of reality, almost dreamlike. Great songs and score by Irving Berlin. The jokes are still fresh today. Enjoy
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Little coconuts and palm blossoms! I had no idea palms grew those frond-looking flowers.
The Cocoanuts, book by George S. Kaufman with additional material by Morrie Ryskind, music & lyrics by Irving Berlin, directed by Oscar Eagle, musical staging by Sammy Lee. Opened at the Lyric Theater on December 8, 1925 and closed on August 7, 1926 (276 performances).
Jamison Zeppo Marx Eddie Georgia Hale Mrs. Potter Margaret Dumont Harvey Yates Henry Whittemor Penelope Martin Janet Velie Polly Potter Mabel Withee Robert Adams Jack Barker Henry W. Schlemmer Grouch Marx Willie the Wop Chico Marx Silent Sam Harpo Marx Hennessey Basil Ruysdael Frances Williams Frances Williams
The brothers’ second Broadway show and first musical, The Cocoanuts was set amidst the Florida land boom of the 1920s (before it collapsed). Groucho is a hotel proprietor, land impresario, and con man, assisted and hampered by two inept grifters, Chico and Harpo, and the somber hotel assistant, Zeppo. Groucho pursues a wealthy dowager ripe for a swindle, played by Margaret Dumont, who would go on to appear as essentially the same character in most of the Marx Brothers’ films. Billy de Wolfe was in the ensemble.
The score, by Irving Berlin, yielded only one standard—a big one, but it was pulled from the show before it opened. “Always” bothered Kaufman, who argued that “I’ll be loving you always” made no sense. He said that if the lyric ran, “I’ll be loving you, Thursday,” he might accept it. The song was dropped but became one of Berlin’s biggest hits.
The brothers improvised so wildly with Kaufman’s script that he eventually left in disgust, and Morrie Ryskind was brought in to shore up the book. (But Kaufman would work with the brothers again, on the script for A Night at the Opera.)
After the initial Broadway run, The Cocoanuts was taken on tour, then revived on Broadway with a number of changes. The 1929 movie was made at the Astoria Studios in Queens, and dropped some of Berlin’s songs.
Immediately above: the comic strip from which the Marxes got their stage names, and some sheet music from the show.
“I love you. I love you anyhow.” Mr. Hammer, Cocoanuts 1929.
This movie… This is the first of their screen time and it was wonderful. Going from his first words, he was just an average smitten man and can’t quite find the right words to express himself to her. She, if truly offended by him would have left, but instead she decided to stay and hear him out. And allowed him to hug her from behind to top it off.
1929 screen romance that had begun to bloom and it would continue to until the very end with the remake of Animal Crackers’ “Hurray For Captain Spaulding” just days before her death.
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In its first year of publication, The New Yorker wasn’t too much of a “class periodical” to use the Marx Brothers as pitchmen—serious, earnest pitchmen. (A zany ad might have had more effect, but perhaps that wouldn’t have been classy enough.) This ad appeared in the program for the Brothers’ 1925 hit The Cocoanuts.
“Its candid criticisms, subtle wit, brilliant satire and its fund of worthwhile information about worthwhile people and things—these and more have given this new weekly almost overnight a larger circulation than that of any other class periodical.”
Memorializing the 2025 Marx Brothers Weekend
Well whattaya know? This is the second Memorial Day in a row that I found myself sharing memories of Marx Brothers events that took place the weekend before, over and above such other stuff as honoring America’s fallen heroes, taking note of Fleet Week, and staying on top of the Lower East Festival of the Arts, which is always scheduled for this weekend. Thanks to Norman Blake and other…
