By the time this film was made (“The Cocoanuts”) the real-life Florida real estate boom had long since collapsed spectacularly. It had really been like this, though - people were suckered into putting down payments on undeveloped land that supposedly was going to be built on, thinking they could immediately turn around and sell it at a profit to another sucker. And so they could...for awhile. Then it stopped working. A massive hurricane that directly hit Miami in 1926 didn’t help.
The paper he was holding had to be moistened with water because the microphone was so close it picked up the crunching of the dry paper in the early takes. Such was the case when filming the early talkies.
Groucho summing up what my corporate law professor called "The Bigger Fool" theory -- the principle that there is always a bigger fool than the last one who paid for something.
Groucho summed up the 2008 financial crisis in under a minute.
"Why a Duck?"
By the time this film was made (“The Cocoanuts”) the real-life Florida real estate boom had long since collapsed spectacularly. It had really been like this, though - people were suckered into putting down payments on undeveloped land that supposedly was going to be built on, thinking they could immediately turn around and sell it at a profit to another sucker. And so they could...for awhile. Then it stopped working. A massive hurricane that directly hit Miami in 1926 didn’t help.
The paper he was holding had to be moistened with water because the microphone was so close it picked up the crunching of the dry paper in the early takes. Such was the case when filming the early talkies.
How true that still is in today's real estate bubble
Reading Harpo's book right now. Gosh it seems like it must have been crazy on set!
Reading "Harpo Speaks" now too. Every page is a laugh.
thanks for posting this Agreenjay -- many the grandparents who were at the auction and got stucco -- and termites -
Groucho finished filming this in May of 29 and he lost his ass by mid September…Got to feel for the guy!
Groucho summing up what my corporate law professor called "The Bigger Fool" theory -- the principle that there is always a bigger fool than the last one who paid for something.
get away from that tree b4 it dies lol
wuttua gonna do w all these lots, play the lotto? lol
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The ONLY Marx that made economic sense!
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