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2nd released Marx Brothers feature. This film is adapted from a stage play. While filming The Cocoanuts (1929), the brothers would shoot the film in the mornings and act in the Animal Crackers stage play in the evenings.

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#Cocoanuts

Their 1st feature, Cocoanuts was made in the early days of Talkies. Filmed early in the day because the soundstage wasn't soundproof, paper was soaked to avoid crinkle noises. They hated it & didn't want it released, but it did well financially.

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#DuckSoup

"Duck soup" was American slang at that time; it meant something easy to do.

Benito Mussolini banned the film from Italy because he thought it was a direct attack on him. When news of this reached The Marx Brothers, they were reportedly ecstatic.

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#Chico

In 1913, Chico spent time out of the act recovering from an operation. Groucho mentioned later that Chico had been shot by the father of a woman he seduced, and author Robert Bader suggests that the time off was to recover from a bullet wound.

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#Harpo

George Bernard Shaw and his wife were vacationing at a seaside resort when someone told them that Harpo Marx was nude-sunbathing, down on the beach. Shaw and his wife went to the beach and surprised Marx in the act. This began their long friendship.

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#Groucho

After a particularly dispiriting singing performance, Julius (Groucho), Milton, & Arthur began making jokes onstage. The audience liked them better as comedians than as singers. They modified the skit "School Days" and renamed it "Fun In Hi Skule"

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#Chico
He played piano to earn for the family. Chico even worked in 2 places at once. He would get a job playing piano, then sub Harpo on one of the jobs. During boyhood, Chico & Harpo looked so alike that they were often mistaken for each other.

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Groucho wrote that Harpo simply was not very good at memorizing dialogue. It has also been said that Harpo reinvented himself as a mute clown by 1915 due to his nerves around speaking on stage; He did however sometimes speak in live performances.

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The eldest of the brothers. In his mid-teens, with pressure from his parents to stop gambling, he left home, supporting himself by playing piano in nickelodeons and whorehouses

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#Groucho

The middle of the 5 brothers. Started as a singing performer.
In 1909, Groucho (age 18) and his brothers had become a group act, at first called The Three Nightingales and later The Four Nightingales

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#Zeppo

The youngest of the 5 brothers, he was forced into the vaudeville act when Gummo joined the army, acted in several movies, then went on to careers as an engineer and a theatrical agent.

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He was part of the family vaudeville act as a singer and dancer, but didn't want that career. He joined the army, then became a successful business man and theatrical agent.

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Pronounced Chick-oh

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