Sometimes, it takes forever to get to anything mildly amusing to happen in a Silly Symphony. In The Bird Store (1932), the audience is treated to nothing but singing birds for about two minutes. Finally, get we get some funny shaped birds.
And then the only celebrity reference in the picture.
I don’t know when the Marx Bros. first appeared one way or another in a cartoon, but this certainly must be one of the earliest.
I believe this is the first time.
ReplyDeleteThe following is from Jerry Beck's 2018 review of THE ANIMATED MARX BROTHERS by Matthew Hahn:
ReplyDeleteThe first 60 pages detail the theatrical cartoons – Disney’s The Bird Store (1932) is apparently the Marx’s first animated cameo…