The Cocoanuts (1929)

About The Cocoanuts (1929)

The Cocoanuts is a 1929 pre-Code musical comedy film starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo). Produced for Paramount Pictures by Walter Wanger, who is not credited, the film also stars Mary Eaton, Oscar Shaw, Margaret Dumont and Kay Francis.

The Cocoanuts is set in the Hotel de Cocoanut, a resort hotel, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The hotel is run by Mr. Hammer and his assistant, Jamison. Chico and Harpo arrive with empty suitcases, apparently planning to fill them by robbing and conning the guests. Mrs. Potter, a wealthy widow, is one of the hotel's few paying customers; her daughter Polly is in love with Bob Adams, a struggling young architect, who works to support himself as a clerk at the hotel. Adams has grand plans for the development of the entire area as Cocoanut Manor.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Cocoanuts (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).