Marx Brothers in Color

This is a color test film from The Marx Brother's second film, "Animal Crackers". Notice that Harpo is out of wig and in a bath robe.

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• Marx
• Brothers
• color
• Animal
• Crackers
• Harpo
• Chico
• Groucho
• Zeppo
• Margaret
• Dumont

[captaincabs]

they look better in black and white

[SandJosieph]

Groucho actually lampshaded about filming movies in color in "the Big Store". It was in black and white and Groucho pointed out that a woman's dress was actually red but that Technicolor was SO expensive.

[MarcBrewer]

Since it was an all-important color test, Harpo skipped the red wig.

[herbiemarx01]

@SandJosieph I remember that, my family was dying of laughter

[CharlieChaplinsAngel]

@HazukiOfMutsu i think we're just used to seeing them in black and white so it's werid to see them in color. In colorized photographs, people do horrible. Groucho's eyes are grey and people make them brown. I know alot of people mistake it, but read his autobiography. I think he starts two chapters (at least one) with saying that.

[CharlieChaplinsAngel]

@SandJosieph yeppers

[HazukiOfMutsu]

@captaincabs Yeah...it's nice to see footage like this, but, like the Three Stooges, they have a certain charm to being just black-and-white.

[slavekal]

Cool. Harpo in rehearsal without the wig.

[CultureCunt]

i was looking forward to seeing harpo 'the professor's big red hair..

[thot4]

@SandJosieph one of my favorite gags. haha.

[dabble778]

Yes it was very expensive. You'd imagine Bette Davis' film about a scarlet woman, Jezebel (1938), would have been filmed in colour, bit alas no.

[dabble778]

I remember seeing a colour film of a festival in Munich Germany before the war. It was a private film club I think. What colour systen would they have been using?