The Cocoanuts

The Cocoanuts

Jamison

Harpo

Chico

Bob

Polly

Yates

Penelope

Mrs. Potter

Hennessy

Dancers (as Gamby-Hale Girls)

Dancers

Bell Captain (uncredited)

Bather (uncredited)

Chico and Harpo are not given character names. They are listed in the credits simply as "Chico" and "Harpo". Chico's name on the Broadway program was "Willy the Wop" which was considered too insensitive even for early movie audiences. Harpo's character was called "Silent Sam"

This marks the first film appearance of Kay Francis.

Of the film's two directors, Groucho Marx once said, "One of them [French-born Robert Florey] didn't understand English, and the other one [former dance director Joseph Santley] didn't understand comedy."

Hammer: Why, it's the most exclusive residential district in Florida. *Nobody* lives there.

Hammer: Wages? Do you want to be wage slaves? Answer me that!

Hammer: Well, my mother and father talked it over and they finally moved to New York, a little house in the Bronx. And it was in that little house that Abraham Lincoln was born, much to my father's surprise. And that, boys and girls, was the beginning of the Lincoln Highway.