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Animal Crackers - Video Rittenhouse, but have you lost a fish?") All in all, ANIMAL CRACKERS will be a real treat for Marx Brothers fans as well as casual viewers prepared to overlook the film's flaws, and it remains my favorite among their early films. I never tire of watching "Animal Crackers", nor any of the Marx Bros. films from "The Cocoanuts" to "A Day At the Races", and including "The Big Store". In 1930, one year after their successful debut film, "The Cocoanuts", the Marx Bros. gave us "Animal Crackers; their second film, and one of their best and funiest. video.realbuy.ws /6300181243.html   (752 words)

Animal Crackers (1930) Animal Crackers (1930), the second of many classic Marx Brothers films (their first film was The Cocoanuts (1929), also for Paramount Studios), was the last to be taken from one of their stage successes and the last to be filmed on the East Coast on Astoria sound stages before they transferred to Hollywood. The comic madness of the Marx Brothers in this early talkies-era film is typical of all their films- an intrusive and silly plot - an excuse for numerous verbal ad-libs and elliptical dislocations, criticism of sophisticated and affected high-society life, expository dialogues and battles (notably between Groucho and Chico), and downright funny sequences. www.filmsite.org /anim.html   (2708 words)

Review of Animal Crackers, starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont Released in 1930, Animal Crackers is the Marx Brothers' second film, and full of the manic energy for which Groucho Marx, Chico and Harpo are known. Funny movie quotes from the Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers: Review of the Marx Brothers film, Animal Crackers clown-ministry.com /Resources/marx-brothers/animal-crackers-marx.html   (1913 words)

Animal crackers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Animal Crackers is a 1930 comedy film, and one of the Marx Brothers' most beloved and oft-quoted movies. Animal crackers are a popular children's snack, in which the crackers are shaped like zoo animals, the most common being elephants, bears, and horses. Animal Crackers is a comic strip by Rog Bollen, and the resultant 1997 television series. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Animal_Crackers   (224 words)

Animal Crackers, Circus Crackers - History and Food Facts But the most famous reference to Animal Crackers is most likely in the Shirley Temple film 'Curleytop', in which she sang "Animal crackers in my soup, Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop, Gosh, oh, gee, but I have fun! The product we know today as Animal Crackers came into being in 1902, but it they had existed in similar forms for generations. The current 17 varieties of crackers are tigers, cougars, camels, rhinoceros, kangaroos, hippopotami, bison, lions, hyenas, zebras, elephants, sheep, bears, gorillas, monkeys, seals, and giraffes. www.foodreference.com /html/artanimalcrack.html   (558 words)

ANIMAL CRACKERS - The Marx Brothers' Second Film Director Victor Heerman must have taken a long, hard look at THE COCOANUTS (1929) before tackling the task of directing the Marx Brothers second picture, ANIMAL CRACKERS (1930), because he managed to avoid almost every mistake that Robert Florey and Joseph Santley made on the first film. Black-and-White Movies- ANIMAL CRACKERS - The Marx Brothers' Second Film- http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/black_and_white_movies/43711 Once again written by George Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, ANIMAL CRACKERS established a great Marx Brothers tradition - the buildup to Groucho's entrance, and the subsequent discovery, by the audience if not by his co-stars, that he is a complete fraud. www.suite101.com /article.cfm/black_and_white_movies/43711   (446 words)

MARXOLOGY - Animal Crackers However, Gustaw M. Przybylo emailed me in the summer of 2001 and informed me that Spauldings song was uncut in 1979 when he first saw Animal Crackers (CBS ran the film as a network prime time special). He says that the print of the re-released Animal Crackers that played at the Lobo Theatre in Albuquerque in 1974 DID contain the "I think I'll try and make her"-line. In an e-mail I received in July 2001, Kevin Kusinitz says that he saw Animal Crackers twice in the USA in the mid-70s. web.telia.com /~u66002771/animal.htm   (1673 words)

Guest Book Especially interesting, were the sections devoted to the stage versions of Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers and how they differed from the film versions. I'm 15, and I have watched only two of the Marx Brothers films (Day At The Races and Night At The Opera), but I think they are some of the greatest films ever released. While most regard Duck Soup as their best film I have always felt that Horse Feathers is equally as funny. www.geocities.com /WallStreet/3417/geobook.html   (1673 words)

AllRefer.com - Marx Brothers (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia After starting in vaudeville they made a sensation on Broadway with The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers, both of which they transferred to film (1929, 1930). Zeppo appeared in their first five films as straight man. Their films include Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), Duck Soup (1933), and A Night at the Opera (1935). Groucho enjoyed a solo career as film actor, television game show emcee, and master raconteur in concert. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MarxBrot.html   (291 words)

Home Theater Forum - HTF Review: The Marx Brothers - Silver Screen Collection Their second film,Animal Crackers, was also a stage production before it was made into a feature film. In other areas, particularly as it relates to The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers the soundtracks are not quite as pleasing, although there is little doubt that the source material limited what could be done to clean them up. More specifically, although Animal Crackers is also an adaptation of a Broadway show, Mr. www.hometheaterforum.com /htforum/printthread.php?threadid=215999   (13135 words)

SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Cocoanuts Also included are "The Cocoanuts," "Animal Crackers," "Monkey Business" and "Horse Feathers." The set comes with a 40-page booklet that's lavishly illustrated but skimpy on background about the films, plus a disc of extras that include "Today" show interviews with Groucho, Harpo and William Marx, Harpo's son. The five films the Marxes made for Paramount from 1929 to 1933 The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup are being released on DVD Nov. 9 by Universal Studios Home Video in a handsome package (suggested price: $59... His plays include The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers (both for the Marx Brothers), Merton of the Movies, The Royal Family, I'd Rather Be Right, Once in a Lifetime, Dinner at Eight, Merrily We Roll Along and The Man Who Came to Dinner. dramatheatre.surfwax.com /files/Cocoanuts_Show.html   (906 words)

DVD Times - Monkey Business In fact, it’s the first Marx Brothers film that was devised specifically for the cinema, Animal Crackers and The Cocoanuts essentially being recordings of their long-running stage hits. And, as with The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers, the central storyline never really catches fire - it just trundles along in the background as if to prove that the film was more than just an excuse for a series of deranged comedy sketches. Not that that's a major drawback - Monkey Business is certainly one of the Marxes' funnier films - but it does make it rather less satisfying as a whole: the climax in particular is something of a damp squib. www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=3931   (906 words)

Marx Brothers Trivia Which Marx brothers' film, other than Animal Crackers, mentions Captain Spalding? In which two Marx Brothers films are Margaret Dumont's guests called animals? When the Marx Brothers first went into films, Harpo was encouraged to use a blonde wig because it would look better on black and white film. www.nightattheopera.net /trivia.html   (1910 words)

Shirley Temple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Several of Temple's film songs, including "On the Good Ship Lollipop" (from 1934's Bright Eyes), "Animal Crackers in my Soup" (from 1935's Curly Top and "Goodnight my Love" (from 1936's Stowaway) were popular radio hits. Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928), later known as Shirley Temple Black, was an American film child actress (considered by many to be the most famous child actor in history) and diplomat. Temple retired from film acting in her early twenties after appearing in successful films such as Since You Went Away, Fort Apache (with her then-husband, John Agar, in the cast), and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shirley_Temple_Black   (886 words)

THE MARX BROTHERS SILVER SCREEN COLLECTION - DVD The origin of Groucho's theme song "Hooray for Captain Spaulding," 1930's Animal Crackers reunites the boys (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo) for another--their last--straight adaptation of one of their Broadway hits, an art caper that represents a quantum leap forward from their successful but badly dated talkie debut The Cocoanuts. Coupled with Chico's Ravelli character musing that his gambling and womanizing will be the ruin of him (self-knowledge mirroring Chico's actual Achilles Heels) and Animal Crackers, seventy-five years ago, played the meta card with an almost brutal invention. McLeod remarked once that his contribution was minimal before the tyrannical nonsense of his stars and that the film was mostly ad-libbed by the antic performers, much to the consternation of the writing team. www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/marxbrotherssilverscreen.htm   (2102 words)

wikien.info: Main_Page Some of the first popularized breaking of the fourth wall in cinema was courtesy of Groucho Marx, of the Marx Brothers in films such as the 1929 film The Cocoanuts and the 1930 film Animal Crackers. The term breaking the fourth wall is used in film, theater, television, and literary works; it refers to a character directly addressing an audience, or actively acknowledging (through breaking character or through dialogue) that the characters and action going on is not real. In an arena theater, or theater-in-the-round, all four walls are in effect "fourth walls." One also speaks of a fourth wall in fictional realms, in literature, movies, television, radio, comic books, and other forms of entertainment. www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Fourth_wall   (3523 words)

Untitled As they were currently performing on Broadway in ANIMAL CRACKERS, they made the film at Paramount's Long Island studio in Astoria, New York, filming on days when they didn't have matinee performances. It should be said that this is the first film the inimitable Margaret Dumont did with the Brothers, and she is an excellent foil as always, though much stiffer and stuffier than she would be later on. So much is made of a stolen necklace, a mysterious map to a certain plot of land, and a detective snooping around (for reasons unknown), midway through the film you may start feeling guilty about not caring a whit about any of it. www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/7044/42881   (745 words)

AllRefer.com - Marx Brothers (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia After starting in vaudeville they made a sensation on Broadway with The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers, both of which they transferred to film (1929, 1930). Groucho enjoyed a solo career as film actor, television game show emcee, and master raconteur in concert. The members were Julius (1895–1977), known as Groucho; Arthur (1893–1964), called Harpo; Leonard (1891–1961), known as Chico; and two other brothers, Milton (Gummo) and Herbert (Zeppo), who had both left the act by 1935; all were born in New York City. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MarxBrot.html   (291 words)

The Immortal Marx Brothers The movie version, shot in New York's Astoria studio during the day while the brothers were engaged in performing "Animal Crackers" at night on stage, was reasonably successful, and was followed by a film adaptation of "Crackers" in 1930, also produced in New York. It was not a hit, and the brothers (minus Zeppo), now considered a liability by their home studio Paramount, accepted an offer to work at MGM, where producer Irving Thalberg suspected he could utilize their talents to better advantage in more lavish, and better-crafted, films. After filming Room Service (which had been a successful stage farce, the screen adaptation of which was reworked to accommodate their personae) while on loan to RKO in 1938, the Marxes ended their MGM stay with the less successful At the Circus (1939), Go West (1940), and The Big Store (1941). www.anycities.com /lydiaolydia/Marx.html   (623 words)

History The boys went on to two more highly successful runs on Broadway, "The Cocoanuts" in 1925 and "Animal Crackers" in 1928. Their first film was a silent movie made in 1925 called "Humor Risk". The film was never released and is now lost. members.aye.net /~mainman/groucho/history.html   (290 words)

Shirley Temple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Several of Temple's film songs, including "On the Good Ship Lollipop" (from 1934's Bright Eyes), "Animal Crackers in My Soup" (from 1935's Curly Top) and "Goodnight my Love" (from 1936's Stowaway) were popular radio hits. Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928), later known as Shirley Temple Black, is an American diplomat and former film child actress. Temple was married first to actor John Agar in 1945; she was 17, and they had one daughter, Linda Agar (later known as Susan Black) in 1948. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shirley_Temple   (1519 words)

John Derevlany Bio While working at the Jim Henson Company for many years, Derevlany wrote the feature film, Muppet Time Travel, and created, wrote, and executive produced 30 episodes of Animal Jam, a dance and movement show for preschoolers. John Derevlany has been an investigative reporter, professional ukulele player, and a crime-fighting chicken named Crackers. Animal Jam is well into its third year on the air on The Learning Channel and Discovery Kids, where it has been among the network's highest-rated children's show (several episodes have recently been released on DVD). www.mycomputerhatesme.com /bio.htm   (439 words)

Shirley Temple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Several of Temple's film songs, including "On the Good Ship Lollipop" (from 1934's Bright Eyes), "Animal Crackers in My Soup" (from 1935's Curly Top) and "Goodnight my Love" (from 1936's Stowaway) were popular radio hits. Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928), later known as Shirley Temple Black, is an American diplomat and former film child actress. Shirley Temple auditioned for a lead role in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies (later known as The Little Rascals) in the early 1930s, but she was not cast. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shirley_Temple   (1613 words)

Biography for Zeppo Marx The movie version, shot in New York's Astoria studio during the day while the brothers were engaged in performing "Animal Crackers" at night on stage, was reasonably successful, and was followed by a film adaptation of "Crackers" in 1930, also produced in New York. The Marxes then left for Hollywood and made three original films that purists consider their best: Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), and Duck Soup (1933), a unique blend of political satire and pure nonsense made at a time when Hitler was rising to power. Although the Marxes' madcap comedy was diluted by liberal splashes of music and romance, A Night at the Opera (1935) and A Day at the Races (1937) turned out to be terrific movies and their most successful at the box office. www.imdb.com /name/nm0555688/bio   (1222 words)

Brad's Marx Brothers Page That show toured for a while, and then Animal Crackers opened at the 44th Street Theatre on October 23, 1928. The Marx Brothers were a staple of the movie industry in the 1930s, making a new film nearly every year. Finally, on May 23, 1929, The Cocoanuts opened to movie theaters, and the film career of the Marx Brothers was born. www.members.tripod.com /Cleo256/marx/histall.html   (480 words)

Amazon.com: Animal Crackers: DVD: Groucho Marx,Harpo Marx,Chico Marx,Zeppo Marx,Lillian Roth,Margaret Dumont,Louis Sorin,Hal Thompson,Margaret Irving,Kathryn Reece,Robert Greig,Edward Metcalf,Ann Roth (II),Donald MacBride,Robert Allen,Victor Heerman Even so, ANIMAL CRACKERS remains one of the Marx Brothers' most inspired feats of comic anarchy, setting the brothers loose to wreck havoc on a Long Island society house party, where they waste little time in lampooning social pretensions with incredible precision. Amazon.com: Animal Crackers: DVD: Groucho Marx,Harpo Marx,Chico Marx,Zeppo Marx,Lillian Roth,Margaret Dumont,Louis Sorin,Hal Thompson,Margaret Irving,Kathryn Reece,Robert Greig,Edward Metcalf,Ann Roth (II),Donald MacBride,Robert Allen,Victor Heerman Although ingenue Lillian Roth's performance seems stylistically dated, the brothers are extremely well supported by the wonderful Margaret Dumont, and the film abounds in wildly hilarious scenes--most particularly the Bridge party--in which Dumont faces the full brunt of their ribal humor to outrageously funny effect. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305078130?v=glance   (1659 words)

Biography for Chico Marx The movie version, shot in New York's Astoria studio during the day while the brothers were engaged in performing "Animal Crackers" at night on stage, was reasonably successful, and was followed by a film adaptation of "Crackers" in 1930, also produced in New York. The Marxes then left for Hollywood and made three original films that purists consider their best: Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), and Duck Soup (1933), a unique blend of political satire and pure nonsense made at a time when Hitler was rising to power. After filming Room Service (which had been a successful stage farce, the screen adaptation of which was reworked to accommodate their personae) while on loan to RKO in 1938, the Marxes ended their MGM stay with the less successful At the Circus (1939), Go West (1940), and The Big Store (1941). www.imdb.com /name/nm0555597/bio   (1242 words)

Biography for Harpo Marx The movie version, shot in New York's Astoria studio during the day while the brothers were engaged in performing "Animal Crackers" at night on stage, was reasonably successful, and was followed by a film adaptation of "Crackers" in 1930, also produced in New York. Although the Marxes' madcap comedy was diluted by liberal splashes of music and romance, A Night at the Opera (1935) and A Day at the Races (1937) turned out to be terrific movies and their most successful at the box office. The Marxes then left for Hollywood and made three original films that purists consider their best: Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), and Duck Soup (1933), a unique blend of political satire and pure nonsense made at a time when Hitler was rising to power. www.imdb.com /name/nm0555617/bio   (1521 words)

The Immortal Marx Brothers The movie version, shot in New York's Astoria studio during the day while the brothers were engaged in performing "Animal Crackers" at night on stage, was reasonably successful, and was followed by a film adaptation of "Crackers" in 1930, also produced in New York. The Marxes then left for Hollywood and made three original films that purists consider their best: Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), and Duck Soup (1933), a unique blend of political satire and pure nonsense made at a time when Hitler was rising to power. It was not a hit, and the brothers (minus Zeppo), now considered a liability by their home studio Paramount, accepted an offer to work at MGM, where producer Irving Thalberg suspected he could utilize their talents to better advantage in more lavish, and better-crafted, films. www.anycities.com /lydiaolydia/Marx.html   (1521 words)

Animal Crackers (1930) Animal Crackers (1930), the second of many classic Marx Brothers films (their first film was The Cocoanuts (1929), also for Paramount Studios), was the last to be taken from one of their stage successes and the last to be filmed on the East Coast on Astoria sound stages before they transferred to Hollywood. The comic madness of the Marx Brothers in this early talkies-era film is typical of all their films - an intrusive and silly plot - an excuse for numerous verbal ad-libs and elliptical dislocations, criticism of sophisticated and affected high-society life, expository dialogues and battles (notably between Groucho and Chico), and downright funny sequences. And on the same evening, she is to unveil the famous, priceless Beaugard oil painting (valued at "$100,000 dollars"), "After the Hunt," just acquired in Europe and donated by art collector, patron, and philanthropist Roscoe W. Chandler (Louis Sorin). www.filmsite.org /anim.html   (1521 words)

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