Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Capt. Spaulding: How happy I could be with either of these two if both of them just went away. Capt. Spaulding: I was outside the cabin smoking some meat. There wasn`t a cigar store in the neighborhood!
Capt. Spaulding: A party. I came here for a party. And what happened? Nothing. Not even ice cream.
Guests: Hooray for Captain Spaulding, the African explorer!
Capt. Spaulding: Did someone call me schnorrer?
Guests: Hooray, hooray, hooray!
Horatio Jamison: He went into the jungle where all the monkeys throw nuts.
Capt. Spaulding: If I stay here, I`ll go nuts.
Guests: Hooray, hooray, hooray! He put all his reliance / In courage and defiance / And risked his life for science.
Capt. Spaulding: Hey, hey!
Mrs. Rittenhouse: He is the only white man who covered every acre...
Capt. Spaulding: I think I`ll try and make her...
Guests: Hooray, hooray, hooray!
Capt. Spaulding: You`re the most beautiful woman I`ve ever seen, which doesn`t say much for you.
Capt. Spaulding: Well, art is art, isn`t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west, and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.
Capt. Spaulding: Signor Ravelli`s first selection will be "Somewhere My Love Lies Sleeping" with a male chorus.
Capt. Spaulding: You are going Uruguay, and I`m going my way.
Capt. Spaulding: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don`t know.
Capt. Spaulding: Take the marriage problem. Take the foreign problem. Take Abyssinia. Say, you take Abyssinia and I`ll take a hot fudge sundae on rye bread.
Capt. Spaulding: Africa is God`s country, and he can have it.
Mrs. Rittenhouse: Captain, this leaves me speechless.
Capt. Spaulding: Well, see that you remain that way.
Capt. Spaulding: [to Mrs. Rittenhouse and Mrs. Whitehead] Let`s get married.
Mrs. Whitehead: All of us?
Capt. Spaulding: All of us.
Mrs. Whitehead: Why, that`s bigamy.
Capt. Spaulding: Yes, and it`s big of me too.
Spaulding has repeatedly told Jamison to take a letter to Spaulding`s lawyers, but he has kept interrupting himself]
Capt. Spaulding: I say, take a letter to my lawyers!
Horatio Jamison: Well I am taking it!
[long pause, as nothing has yet been written]
Capt. Spaulding: Honorable Charles H., uh, Hungerdunger, care of Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, and McCormick... semicolon.
Horatio Jamison: How do you spell semicolon?
Capt. Spaulding: All right, make it a comma.
[pause]
Capt. Spaulding: Honorable Charles. H. Hungerdunger, care of Hunger...
[rushes through the repetition]
Capt. Spaulding: ... and McCormick.
[pause]
Capt. Spaulding: Gentlemen, question mark?
[grunts]
Horatio Jamison: Do you want that, uh,
[grunt]
Horatio Jamison: in the letter?
Capt. Spaulding: No, put that in an envelope.
[pause]
Capt. Spaulding: Now then. In re yours of the fifth inst., yours to hand and beg to rep... brackets...
[pause]
Capt. Spaulding: ... We have gone over the ground carefully, and we seem to believe, i.e., to wit, e.g., in lieu, that, uh, despite all our... precautionary measures which have been involved...
[pause]
Capt. Spaulding: ... uh, we seem to believe that it is hardly necessary for us to proceed unless we, uh, receive an ipso facto that is not negligible at this moment, quotes, unquotes, and quotes...
[pause]
Capt. Spaulding: ... uh, hoping this finds you, I beg to remain...
Horatio Jamison: [interrupting] Hoping this finds him where?
Capt. Spaulding: Well, let him worry about that. Don`t be so inquisitive, Jamison.
[insultingly]
Capt. Spaulding: Sneak.
[pause]
Capt. Spaulding: I say, hoping this finds you, I beg to remain, as of June 9th, cordially yours, regards. That`s all, Jamison.
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[Jamison finishes reading the letter that Spaulding dictated to him]
Horatio Jamison: [reading] "Quotes, unquotes, and quotes."
Capt. Spaulding: That`s three quotes?
Horatio Jamison: Yes, sir.
Capt. Spaulding: Add another quote and make it a gallon. How much is it a gallon, Jamison?
Horatio Jamison: Regards.
Capt. Spaulding: Regards. That`s a fine letter, Jamison, that`s an epic. That`s dandy. Now, I want you to make two carbon copies of that letter and throw the original away. And when you get through with that, throw the carbon copies away. Just send a stamp, airmail, that`s all. You may go, Jamison. I may go too
Capt. Spaulding: Now read me the letter, Jamison.
Horatio Jamison: [reading]
Capt. Spaulding: You left out a Hoongadoonga. The most important one, too.
Capt. Spaulding: I used to know a fellow who looked exactly like you by the name of Emanuel Ravelli. Are you his brother?
Ravelli: I am Emanuel Ravelli.
Capt. Spaulding: You`re Emanuel Ravelli?
Ravelli: I am Emanuel Ravelli.
Capt. Spaulding: Well, no wonder you look like him. But I still insist there is a resemblance.
Ravelli: Heh, heh, he thinks I look alike.
Capt. Spaulding: Well, if you do, it`s a tough break for both of you.
Capt. Spaulding: How much would you charge to run into an open manhole?
Ravelli: Just the cover charge.
Capt. Spaulding: Well, drop in sometime.
Ravelli: Sewer.
Capt. Spaulding: Well, we cleaned that up pretty well.
Trivia
Animal Crackers opened at the 44th Street Theater on October 23, 1928 and ran for 191 performances starring the Marx Brothers and Margaret Dumont.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. However, because of legal complications, this particular title was not included in the original television package and was not televised until the 1970`s when rights were cleared.
One of the few Marx Brothers movies in which the fact that Chico is not truly Italian is referenced. When Chico is questioning Avis the fish-man (alias Roscoe W. Chandler) about his new identity, Chandler suddenly replies "Say, how did you get to be Italian?"
The movie`s line "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don`t know." was voted as the #53 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
In 1957, Paramount forgot to renew the soundtrack rights which reverted back to the authors of the play (the studio did renew the picture rights, though). As a result the film could not legally be seen in the USA until 1974, when Universal, which had since purchased Paramount`s film library, was persuaded by fan requests to re-release it.
After this film, the Brothers always thought of Margaret Dumont as "Mrs. Rittenhouse".
Chico plays his trademark song "I`m Daffy Over You" for the first time in this film.
During a rehearsal a test was made for a color movie process called Multicolor (a predecessor of Cinecolor) and the result was the only known footage of the Marx Brothers in color! The clip is silent and lasts only 15 seconds.
The film was re-released to theaters before being released to television. Groucho attended the premiere.
Several of Groucho Marx` lines were cut on demand of the Hays office, including "I think I`ll try to make her".
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