SCW at SIFF - "Animal Crackers" by the Marx Brothers
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01:30PM - 04:00PM
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Join the Stanford Club of Washington (SCW) for a screening of the restored version of 1930 film "Animal Crackers" by the Marx Brothers.
At 3:30pm, we'll walk two blocks to Poquitos for an exclusive hosted reception at Poquitos with Robert Bader, the world's leading authority of the Marx Brothers and author of the book, Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage.
Animal Crackers Film Synopsis
Animal Crackers is a 1930 Pre-Code Marx Brothers comedy film, in which mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding. A critical and commercial success on its initial release, filming took place at Paramount's Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens; it was the second of two films the Brothers would make in New York.
The film stars the four brothers, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, and Zeppo Marx, with Lillian Roth and Margaret Dumont. It was directed by Victor Heerman and adapted from a successful 1928 Broadway musical of the same title by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, also starring the Marx Brothers and Margaret Dumont.
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