A decade later, the team made some of their Broadway hits into movies, including The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers.

Throughout his career he introduced a number of memorable songs in films, including " Hooray for Captain Spaulding " and " Hello, I Must Be Going ", in Animal Crackers, " Whatever It Is, I'm Against It ", " Everyone Says I Love You " and " Lydia the Tattooed Lady ".

Marx's theme song from Animal Crackers ( 1930 ) " Hooray for Captain Spaulding " is featured, sung in French by a chorus of Groucho Marxes.

Animal Crackers is a 1930 American comedy film, in which mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.

In December 1973, UCLA student and Marx Bros. fan, Steve Stoliar, drove to Anaheim, California, to view a rare screening of Animal Crackers at the Old Town Music Hall theater.

Although EMKA, Ltd. ( now part of Universal Television ) had acquired Paramount's older films in 1959, Animal Crackers evidently was regarded as a mess best left untouched.

On February 7, 1974, Groucho and his assistant, Erin Fleming, visited UCLA under the aegis of Stoliar's newly-formed " Committee for the Re-release of Animal Crackers " ( CRAC ).

" He also said that " Animal Crackers is the best of our movies.

From there Animal Crackers went into national release.

It is also because of these rights issues that Animal Crackers did not see an appearance on television until July 21, 1979, when CBS broadcast the film.

In the 1990s, a 15-second clip filmed in Multicolor during the rehearsal of a scene in Animal Crackers was found and aired as a part of the AMC documentary Glorious Technicolor ( 1998 ).

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* Internet Broadway Database entry on Animal Crackers

* Multicolor test filmed on set of Animal Crackers

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This continued the " animal " titles of the Brothers ' previous three films, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business and Horse Feathers.

The musical introduction to Groucho's character is similar to the ones in Animal Crackers and Horse Feathers but it did not become closely associated with him as did " Hooray for Captain Spaulding " from Animal Crackers.

* Animal ( 1977 film ), French film ( L ' Animal ) by Claude Zidi with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Raquel Welch

* Animal ( 2001 film ), Argentine film by Sergio Bizzio with Carlos Roffé

* Animal ( 2005 film ), US film by David J. Burke with Ving Rhames and Terrance Howard

* The Animal, 2001 US film by Luke Greenfield with Rob Schneider

The most recent Doraemon film, Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles ~ Animal Adventure ~, was released on March 3, 2012.

Most notably, the 1978 comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House was co-written by Chris Miller ' 63, and is based loosely on a series of stories he wrote about his fraternity days at Dartmouth.

Kevin Norwood Bacon ( born July 8, 1958 ) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, The River Wild, Murder in the First, Apollo 13, Hollow Man, Stir of Echoes, Trapped, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Death Sentence, Frost / Nixon, X-Men: First Class and Tremors.

Additionally his film work includes the role of Dr. Hank McCoy ( also known as the Beast ) in X-Men: The Last Stand, and he was the voice of Snowball in the live-action film adaptation of the George Orwell book Animal Farm.

Following the success of the National Lampoon – backed Animal House, Mad lent its name in 1980 to a similarly risque comedy film, Up the Academy.

The character John Morlar from Peter Van Greenaway's 1973 novel The Medusa Touch and the 1978 film version holds nihilistic beliefs as does the character Animal Mother from Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the ruthless thug O-Dog from the 1993 film Menace II Society by the Hughes Brothers.

" In 2008, Cruz appeared in Isabel Coixet's film Elegy, which was based on the Philip Roth story The Dying Animal, as the lead female role, Consuela Castillo.

Newsweek revealed in June 2001 that print ads for at least four movies released by Columbia Pictures, including A Knight's Tale and The Animal ( 2001 ), contained glowing comments from a film reviewer who did not exist.

Animal Kingdom achieved success at the 2010 Australian Film Institute Awards and was acclaimed at film festivals around the world.

Introduced by Zeppo Marx, Robert Greig, Margaret Dumont and Groucho Marx in the musical Animal Crackers and also performed by them in the 1930 film version.

In 1971 the band appeared in a Western film starring Don Johnson as an outlaw gang called the Crackers.

Another famous example of this humorous effect is by Groucho Marx as Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding in the 1930 film, Animal Crackers:

On April 30, 2012, the short film " Crackers ", starring D ' Onofrio as " Gus ", won a People's Choice Award at the Fort Myers Beach Film Festival.

Two remakes of the film were shot in the USA: the 1984 film Crackers by Louis Malle ( set in San Francisco ), and the 2002 film Welcome to Collinwood by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo ( set in Cleveland ).

Captain Spaulding is the signature character played by actor Groucho Marx for the stage play and film Animal Crackers.

The character of Captain Jeffrey ( or Geoffrey, the name appears both ways in the film ) T. Spaulding ( the " T " stands for " Edgar ") first appeared in the Broadway play Animal Crackers and later in the 1930 film of the same name.

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Their partnership resulted in some of the most well-known songs featured in the Marx Brothers ' Broadway production of Animal Crackers ( 1928 ) as well as the film of the same name.

* Kreutzer repeatedly sings Hello, I Must Be Going from the Marx Brothers film Animal Crackers.

With the assistance of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Ruscha arranged in Premium a scenario which he first projected in his photo-book Crackers from 1969 and subsequently transformed into a film which features Larry Bell, Leon Bing, Rudi Gernreich, and Tommy Smothers.

Groucho Marx played Waldorf T. Beagle ( later renamed to Waldorf T. Flywheel ), while Chico played Emmanuel Ravelli, the same Italian character he played in the film Animal Crackers ( 1930 ).

The plot of Episode 17 was suggested by the stolen painting plot in Animal Crackers, though it was a " Beauregard " in the film, not a Rembrandt.

Among the films she made with Paramount were The Love Parade ( 1929 ) with Maurice Chevalier, The Vagabond King ( 1930 ), Paramount on Parade ( 1930 ), Honey ( 1930 ; in which she introduced " Sing, You Sinners "), Cecil B. DeMille's Madam Satan ( 1930 ) with Reginald Denny and Kay Johnson, Sea Legs with Jack Oakie, and the Marx Brothers second film, Animal Crackers ( 1930 ).

The play was popular enough that its title was referenced in a pun in the Marx Brothers film Animal Crackers.