my favorite movie of 1930:

Animal Crackers

(Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont. Directed by Victor Heerman.)

The first movie on my list that isn’t silent.

In that video, Zeppo — the only straight man among the four Marx Brothers — steals the show when he’s supposed to be writing a business letter for Captain Spaulding (Groucho). Once Groucho is done dictating the letter, Zeppo dryly announces:

You said a lot of things here that I didn’t think were important, so I just omitted them.

Groucho responds:

You’ve left out the body of the letter! All right, send it that way and tell them the body will follow.

Stream Animal Crackers on Amazon Prime.

Click here for the full list of my favorite movie(s) of each year from 1920 to 2020.

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