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The Cocoanuts
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The Cocoanuts is a 1929 musical comedy that starred the four Marx Brothers, Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo. Originally this was a stage musical written by Irving Berlin and George S. Kaufman for the Marx Brothers in 1925. Later this was adapted to the screen in 1929 by Paramount Studios and filmed in their Astoria, Queens, location. This is technically the Marx Brother's screen debut, as their previous attempt, a silent film entitled Humor Risk, was effectively destroyed after one viewing.The plot involves the manager of the Hotel de Cocoanut, Mr. Hammer (Groucho), who runs a resort hotel located in Florida and his assistant Jamison (Zeppo). Chico and Harpo arrive with empty luggage, with the intention of conning and stealing from hotel guests and filling up their loot in the suitcases. Meanwhile, the wealthy Mrs. Potter (Margaret Dumont) arrives with her daughter Polly (Mary Eaton), who is in love with Bob Adams (Oscar Shaw), a young man who also happens to work at the hotel. But Mrs. Potter wants Polly to marry the seemingly well-to-do Harvey Yates, not knowing he's secretly a con-artist with an equally conniving partner, Penelope. Expect chaos and confusion to run amock as con-artists clash and the usual one-liners and sketches from the Marx Brothers to stop the plot.The Marx brothers themselves hated the film, and were so disappointed with the final cut that they actually tried to buy the rights to the movie from Paramount in order to prevent it from being released, fearing it would severely hinder their film careers. Fortunately for them, Paramount refused, and the movie became a smash hit. | |
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Non Sequitur | |
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Non Sequitur: Mr. Hammer's speech at Polly's engagement party is one long chain of non sequiturs. | |
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Ripped from the Headlines | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: The play was originally produced on Broadway in 1925, the year of the famous Florida real estate boom that was a major cause of The Great Depression, and a lot of Mr. Hammer's remarks make more sense if you know something about the context. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: The movie ends with the Marxes looking directly into the camera and waving goodbye to the audience. | |
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Source Music | |
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Source Music: Played with; due to Executive Meddling, an orchestra was hired to be in the lobby to justify where the background music was coming from. In the final cut, they are only clearly visible in the party scene... and it was all for nothing as the audience didn't care anyway. | |
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Gentleman Thief | |
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Gentleman Thief: Harvey Yates presents himself as a debonair gentleman, but he's secretly deep in debt and enters a scheme with Penelope to steal Mrs. Potter's valuable diamond necklace. | |
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Cardboard Prison | |
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Cardboard Prison: After accidentally locking himself in jail, Harpo escapes by tugging on the bars of his cell, causing a bar to pop loose so he can climb through and escape. | |
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Hurricane of Puns | |
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Hurricane of Puns: The scene where Hammer recruits Chico to be a shill in the real estate auction is packed to the gills with puns. | |
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Auction | |
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Auction: A key scene is Mr. Hammer's auction of parcels of land in Cocoanut Grove for prospective developers. | |
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Guilty Until Someone Else Is Guilty | |
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Guilty Until Someone Else Is Guilty: After Mrs. Potter's stolen necklace has been recovered from lot #26, Bob is accused of stealing it simply because he refused to explain why he was so determined to win the lot. | |
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Frame-Up | |
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Frame-Up: Penelope lures Chico and Harpo (separately) up to her room so they can be blamed for the theft of Mrs. Potter's necklace. It doesn't go according to plan. | |
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Stealing from the Hotel | |
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Stealing from the Hotel: Chico and Harpo check in with an empty suitcase. "That's all right, we fill it up before we leave." | |
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Forgotten Trope | |
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Forgotten Trope: The song "Monkey Doodle Doo" has a reference to "monkey glands". This stems from a then-popular quack remedy belief that goat and monkey glands had rejuvenating effects, similar to viagra. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Mr. Hammer's Establishing Character Moment has him talking his way out of paying his employees the money that he owes them. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Harpo wore his red wig from their stage show, which appears dark grey on the black and white film. He quickly decided that it would look better bleached to a light pink. That's why he's called Pinky in some of the films. Many fans do think of Harpo as blond. | |
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Makes Just as Much Sense in Context | |
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In one scene, Mr. Hammer gives Mrs. Potter a piece of pipe, then dashes offscreen. After she chases him to protest, Hammer reappears behind the bell desk, having eluded her. | |
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Bumbling Sidekick | |
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Bumbling Sidekick: Hammer tries to recruit Chico for this role in the real estate auction, and instructs Chico to make counter-offers against the other investors to raise the prices of the lots. Chico, being Chico, follows the instructions too well... | |
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Wimp Fight | |
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Wimp Fight: A Running Gag in the movie is for Chico and Harpo to get into an argument and suddenly fight each other. This consists of blatantly-telegraphed windmill punches and half-hearted kicks to the nethers, all with the effectiveness of wet tissue paper. | |
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Chewbacca Defense | |
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Chewbacca Defense: Mr. Hammer argues that his employees are "wage-slaves" for expecting to actually be paid for the work they do for him and that they should be "free" to work for him for free. Amazingly, it actually works. | |
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Arranged Marriage | |
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Arranged Marriage: Mrs. Potter arranges for Polly to marry Yates after Bob is arrested under suspicion of stealing the necklace. | |
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Scooby-Dooby Doors | |
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Scooby-Dooby Doors: This movie has a variation with Penelope and Mrs. Potter's adjoining hotel rooms — Groucho, Harpo, Chico, detective Hennessy, Mrs. Potter, and Penelope chase and hide from each other between two rooms, four doors, and a bed. | |
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Femme Fatale | |
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Femme Fatale: Penelope uses her feminine charms to get unsuspecting men to do her bidding. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
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Pyrrhic Victory: Spoofed by Groucho during the auction when Chico buys Lot Number 20 for $600. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: Groucho chastises Harpo for smoking. | |
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Offscreen Teleportation | |
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Offscreen Teleportation: In one scene, Mr. Hammer gives Mrs. Potter a piece of pipe, then dashes offscreen. After she chases him to protest, Hammer reappears behind the bell desk, having eluded her. Harvey Yates disappears from the engagement party during Polly's speech revealing that he was the thief who stole her mother's necklace. This is especially notable since he was sitting between Polly and her mother at the time. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: Chico and Harpo Marx are not given character names, but are listed in the credits simply as "Chico" and "Harpo". Chico's name on the Broadway program was "Willy the Wop" which was considered too insensitive even for early movie audiences. Harpo's character was called "Silent Sam". In one scene, Harpo is called Silent Red. | |
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"Wanted!" Poster | |
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"Wanted!" Poster: Harpo has a copy of his wanted poster ("Wanted for Jaywalking") attached to the inside of his coat. | |
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Reality Has No Soundtrack | |
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Reality Has No Soundtrack: The Marx Brothers figured that the audience wouldn't care where the music came from, but the executives insisted that film audiences wouldn't suspend their disbelief, so they hired an orchestra to sit on the set in order to justify the musical numbers (even though they were using prerecorded music) — but the director forgot to shoot them and almost all the musical numbers were cut anyway, so the studio wasted that money. | |
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Shady Real Estate Agent | |
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Shady Real Estate Agent: Mr. Hammer is a downplayed example; while he doesn't resort to outright fraud or chicanery, his descriptions of the real estate lots of Cocoanut Grove definitely take some creative liberties. | |
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Aside Glance | |
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Aside Glance: Groucho throws a quick one to the camera right after Chico's "Radius WJZ" joke. | |
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Self-Made Man | |
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Self-Made Man: Parodied with Mr. Hammer. | |
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Impossible Theft | |
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Impossible Theft: Harpo repeatedly and effortlessly steals anything that's not nailed down. In one scene he steals Bob's handkerchief five times, his wristwatch twice, Groucho's tie three times, and the dentures from his mouth! | |
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Crowd Song | |
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Crowd Song: During Mrs. Potter's engagement party for Polly, detective Hennessy's shirt disappears... causing him to break out in song about it (set to the music of Carmen) as everyone else joins in. | |
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Stock Foreign Name | |
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Stock Foreign Name: Used as part of the Hurricane of Puns in the "Viaduct" scene. | |
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Movie Bonus Song | |
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Movie Bonus Song: "When My Dreams Come True" appears to be the Ur-Example. | |
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