The House That Shadows Built
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The House That Shadows Built is a 1931 feature from Paramount Pictures, celebrating the studio's 20th anniversary. The hour-length feature includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which actually never came to fruition).
The film is most notable for a six-minute short starring the Marx Brothers, intended to promote their forthcoming film Monkey Business. The short film, containing material which was never included in any other Marx Brothers film, is a re-working of the first scene of their first successful Broadway play I'll Say She Is (which Groucho considered to have been the funniest work in the Brothers' career). Except for a few name changes and additional gags, the scene is almost completely the same as the script used for the stage production. Some of the gags had been worked into the lobby scene in The Cocoanuts, and a bit involving a series of Maurice Chevalier imitations was incorporated into the script of Monkey Business.
The Marx Brothers' segment is currently available as a special feature on the direct-to-DVD documentary Inside the Marx Brothers, albeit in poor condition. Recently, Marx Brothers fans have begun referring to their segement simply as I'll Say She Is, in lieu of its source material.
[edit] External links
- The House That Shadows Built at the Internet Movie Database
- The House That Shadows Built at the TCM Movie Database
- Film as Art: Review of Marx Brothers' segment of the film
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| Chico Marx | Harpo Marx | Groucho Marx | Gummo Marx | Zeppo Marx |
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Humor Risk (1921) • The Cocoanuts (1929) • Animal Crackers (1930) • |
| Films with Chico, Harpo, and Groucho |
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A Night at the Opera (1935) • A Day at the Races (1937) • Room Service (1938) • At the Circus (1939) • |
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