August 3, 1929 –
Four famous vaudevillian performers took a chance on the new medium of ‘talking pictures‘ with the general release of the film, The Cocoanuts, starring the Four Marx Brothers
Chico, Groucho, Harpo and Zeppo, on this date,.
Filmed on a stage in New York City. Sound films were still so new that soundproofing was not installed, so the film had to be shot in the early hours of the morning to reduce outside traffic noise. (The studio is still in use and where once I pretended to earn a living.)
The Haus of Dcaligari 