![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tied together by a very thin story involving the goings-on at a resort owned by Groucho, the film shifts episodically between a romance involving two lovers (played by a couple of zombies named Oscar Shaw and Mary Eaton) entangled in tepid intrigue over stolen diamonds, musical numbers and Marx Brothers comedy before finally turning into a straight-up musical revue in its second half, with Groucho introducing various performances. Kaufman for the Marx Brothers, with music by Irving Berlin (in fact, the only Berlin musical to spawn no hit songs), The Cocoanuts (1929) is, for all intents and purposes, a filmed reproduction of that play, from the variety show format to the plywood chorus girls/palm trees. They certainly blend in with the setting – a lot of plywood palm trees and painted skies forming a makeshift Florida. They're usually in chorus lines, kicking their legs in rigidly choreographed routines to some god-awful love song, with frozen little grins on their glassy-eyed faces. There are numerous interchangeable glamour girls lurking in the background of The Cocoanuts (1929). ![]()
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