Cast
The film stars the four brothers, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, and Zeppo Marx, as well as Lillian Roth and Margaret Dumont. It was directed by Victor Heerman and adapted from a successful 1928 Broadway musical of the same title by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, also starring the Marx Brothers and Margaret Dumont. The part of Hives the butler was played by Robert Greig, a character actor who appeared in over 100 films (many in the role of a butler). He also appeared with the Marx Brothers in Horse Feathers.
- Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding
- Harpo Marx as The Professor
- Chico Marx as Signor Emanuel Ravelli
- Zeppo Marx as Horatio Jamison and Captain Spaulding in one scene
- Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Rittenhouse
- Lillian Roth as Arabella Rittenhouse
- Louis Sorin as Roscoe W. Chandler
- Hal Thompson as John Parker
- Margaret Irving as Mrs. Whitehead
- Kathryn Reece as Grace Carpenter
- Robert Greig as Hives
- Edward Metcalf as Inspector Hennessey
- The Music Masters as the Six Footmen
The film was shot at Paramount's Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens.
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