Chico Marx Forgets His Lines in "THE COCOANUTS" (1929)
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- Chico and Harpo are breaking Bob (Oscar Shaw) out of jail because Bob's girlfriend Polly (Mary Eaton) is being forced to marry bad guy Harvey Yates.
But Chico can't remember the name "Harvey Yates" to save his life.
So Bob finally has to turn psychic and say it for him.
"She's gotta have you. Because tonight she gonna be, uh, engaged."
"To who?"
"To Polly. He's engaged to Polly."
"POLLY'S GOING TO MARRY YATES?"
Nice mind-reading there, Bob!
And to top it all off, Harpo gets his foot stuck in the door on the way out.
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I think it adds to his character
Agree with everyone else. As with Harpo getting his foot stuck, it’s just so funny and something he would do 😂 honestly the Marx Bros were great at improv when they needed to
The Brothers weren't just movie actors, they had put in years of live performance in Vaudeville. They were probably so used to having to improvise it didn't faze them.
With Chico, if he messes up a line who would know?
lol right
AceripXF I think he’s shy because that’s his first onscreen appearance with his 3 younger brothers
@@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635 except the fact he DIDNT mess up
I’d love to see a blooper reel from their movies
Their was some outtake dialog from duck soup on TH-cam
It's debatable if he said Yates during this scene, mostly because this is a very early sound film, so the quality isn't great (they had to soak the blueprints in an earlier scene to keep them from rustling). If he did forget the name, it's understandable. The Marx Brothers filmed this movie during the day while performing Animal Crackers on Broadway almost every night. They were dead tired every day they filmed The Cocoanuts.
Never noticed! I'll never see that scene the same way again!
But Chico DOES say it. The name, “Yates.” When Chico’s stammering and trying to get back on track after Bob has asked him, “Who - to who?’’ I hear him reply, “To Polly - Yates to Polly.” Like “Yates” is an afterthought. Then Bob blurts out “Polly’s going to marry YATES??” with enough emphasis to make sure the audience gets it after Chico garbled his lines so badly.
yup i heard that too i was just rewatching it on my laptop
Nope, I don't buy the "Yates to Polly" thing. To me Chico clearly says "He's engaged to Polly."
Wrong. It's clearly "Yates to Polly".
Stop making things up.
I don't think they're "making things up" if they genuinely misheard the line. Chill.
@@FerdinandCesarano I can't tell for sure, but to me it sounds more like "engaged to Polly" than "Yates to Polly."
Either way, he started out forgetting and the first (if not the second) response to "to who?" shows his brilliance as an ad-libber.
I think it’s all in character for Chico, who was playing an immigrant with a less than perfect command of English. He performed COCOANUTS hundreds of times on Broadway, and he clearly understood his character better than anyone.
Unlikely. Cocoanuts was a Broadway play before it was a film. Chico and his brothers performed it literally hundreds of times live.
I doubt he forgot his line. They did this play over 300 times
This is adorable - to be fair, who the heck is gonna remember Yates? I wish they'd have let Harpo improvise getting his foot out of the cellar.
He was acting as a foreigner. So, actually it added to the act that he can't talk right, made the play even more sweat.
Was he sweating? I didn't notice.
I think he’s shy
@@WheelzOfFortune i think they meant SWEET LMAO
Nice catch!
The only one who even cared was Joe Adamson, who genuinely seemed to think that "Duck Soup" is the only movie they made that's worth watching all the way through, all of the others missed their mark.
Groucho was not kind in his description of Oscar Shaw later on, calling him “strictly no-talent.”
The scene worked. Hence, it was not a blooper. There were probably 3 takes and the director chose that one.
He clearly says Yates to Polly. This clip is misleading. There is no flub. Nice try kid.
All those years, I never knew! I thought it was just Chico being Chico! 🤣🤣🤣
In the stage version of Coconuts there was a Raising money for bail, but in the film version they changed it to a Jail break in order to get Bob out so of course Chico is going to be out of his comfort zone and mess his lines up.
Why would they leave goods in the movie?
I would have thought The Marx Brothers would have just made fun of the situation and made it add to the humour, but as it was their first film they were probably nervous of adlibbing.
They were never nervous adlibbing
Chico, the degenerate gambler and womanizer was always my favorite. 🤣
Chico needed the money
Slowing down to 3/4 and 1/2 speed I hear "to Polly...Yates to Polly".
No one would have cared lol
I think he’s a bit shy
Since when did he ever follow the script, anyway?
There was no jail break in the stage play of Coconuts, so Chico knowing the lines of by heart in the old version gave him a false sense of security for this film hence him messing up his line.
soooo i was just reatching this n Chico says "engagement yates to polly" so bob says "yates is gonna mary polly?" so it wasnt add libbing
Chico never says "Yates to Polly." He says "He's ENGAGED to Polly."
@@porflepopnecker4376 yes he did u gotta listen more carefully
@@AceripXF I also hear "Yates".
@@melenatorr ty
He CLEARLY says Yates to Polly. It sounds nothing like engaged which is two sylables. You nutty dude.