Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Cocoanuts

The Cocoanuts

Voting period ends on 16 Jan 2025 at 14:23:55 (UTC)

Original – The Cocoanuts is a 1929 pre-Code musical comedy film starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo). Produced for Paramount Pictures by Walter Wanger, who is not credited, the film also stars Mary Eaton, Oscar Shaw, Margaret Dumont and Kay Francis. The first sound film to credit more than one director (Robert Florey and Joseph Santley), it was adapted to the screen by Morrie Ryskind from the George S. Kaufman Broadway musical play. Five of the film's tunes were composed by Irving Berlin, including "When My Dreams Come True", sung by Oscar Shaw and Mary Eaton.

Reason: the first film of the Marx Brothers
Articles in which this image appears: The Cocoanuts
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Film
Creator: The Marx Brothers

Support as nominator – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 14:23, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Very blurry in places (e.g. between 50 and 60 minutes)... Is this the best possible scan? --Janke | Talk 14:39, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Having watched it all the way through, I think it was cobbled together from at least two separate prints, one of which is markedly worse than the other(s). I remember seeing something similar done with Metropolis years ago in a restoration that added back old cut material that had recently been rediscovered. With that in mind, this probably is the best possible version, at least online. Moonreach (talk) 15:47, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Moonreach (talk) 16:28, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Yann (talk) 13:28, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 02:51, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support ArionStar (talk) 04:10, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]