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Horse Feathers (1932) More at IMDbPro »

• When Groucho Marx is broadcasting on the radio, the man next to him at the typewriter is Groucho's friend/writer Arthur Sheekman.
  
  
• In the last half of the movie Chico Marx is limping. During the making of the movie, Chico was in a car accident and his kneecap was shattered.
  
  
• All four Marx Brothers perform their own version of the song "Everyone Says I Love You". In fact, Harpo Marx performs it twice: whistling it once to his horse, and playing it on his trademark harp. Woody Allen later used the song within his musical of the same name, which movie had a scene of Woody and others dressed as Groucho for a costume party.
  
  
• A scene in which all four Marx Brothers play a poker game as the university burns to the ground around them was filmed but cut.
  
  
• According to Groucho Marx, when Thelma Todd fell out of the boat he kept rowing as she cried for help not knowing she really couldn't swim. Crew members got her out of the water.
  
  
• Zeppo played Groucho's son, but in real life, Zeppo was only 11 years younger than Groucho. Groucho was born in 1890, and Zeppo in 1901.
  
  
• Although the present running time (68 minutes) is very close to that of the original (70 minutes), there are still a few bits and pieces and lines of dialogue missing, due to re-editing in 1935 in order to bring the film up to Production Code standards. Apparently the only surviving material also contained some splices which lop of lines of dialogue and bits of action, particularly in the sequence in Thelma Todd's apartment involving the blocks of ice.
  
  
• Before she became famous, Shirley Temple walked by the set with her parents at one point during filming. Harpo Marx reportedly approached her parents with an offer to adopt the child on the spot for $50,000.
  
  
• "Darwin" & "Huxley," the two opposing college football team, are named after the originator of the theory of evolution, 19th century naturalist Charles Darwin, and his leading advocate, biologist Thomas Huxley.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Harpo Marx was one of only two Marx Brothers to play a recurring role in their films (not counting when they used their own names). He played the role of "Pinky" in both Horse Feathers (1932) and Duck Soup (1933) .
  
  
• Professor Wagstaff's exclamation, "Jumpin' anaconda!" is actually a reference to a company, Anaconda Copper, whom Groucho Marx had invested in heavily. When the stock market crash of 1929 occurred, Marx lost several hundred thousand dollars, hence the curse word in the movie.
  
  

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