This short film is the the answer to the trivia question: what was the movie that Harpo Marx appeared in with Warner Baxter, Gary Cooper, Robert Taylor, Ida Lupino, Judy Garland, Leo Carillo, Andy Devine, Buster Keaton, and Chester Conklin (with Pete Smith in the background).
Part of it is familiar to us: a segment of it is in THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, when the career of Judy Garland is being talked about. Judy and her two sisters appear as the Gumm Sisters singing to Paul Porcasi (costumed like a Mexican) the tune "La Cucaracha". Even here Judy was given pride of place over the older girls, and appears to be leading the singing - a sense of things to shortly come.
The short (in nice Technicolor) is a kind of comic travelogue of a local yearly fiesta in the town of Santa Barbara, California, dealing with the history of the town's connections with Mexico. The MGM studio trotted out many of their stars and most of them do little cameo jokes (Baxter wearing a huge sombrero that Ralph Forbes finds him under, Cooper opening up a beer stein and using it - actually a lighter - to light his pipe, and Harpo guzzling down Mexican wine). Ted Healy pops up in a comic segment where he is pestered by a gate crasher who keeps asking him about movies he did not appear in (interestingly he says A NIGHT AT THE OPERA had the four Marx Brothers in it - he apparently does not realize Zeppo stopped appearing with his siblings after DUCK SOUP). Devine pretends he is Mexico's greatest bull fighter, and then (to his dismay) finds that Keaton is raising bulls and wants him to fight one. Keaton, by the way, gives a pretty good mock-Mexican accent when he talks.
One small piece of fluff (Carillo popping up to shoot up the proceedings in a good natured "Pancho" way is typical) it is easy to watch and forget, except the brief appearance of Judy and her two sisters with Mr. Porcasi.
Part of it is familiar to us: a segment of it is in THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, when the career of Judy Garland is being talked about. Judy and her two sisters appear as the Gumm Sisters singing to Paul Porcasi (costumed like a Mexican) the tune "La Cucaracha". Even here Judy was given pride of place over the older girls, and appears to be leading the singing - a sense of things to shortly come.
The short (in nice Technicolor) is a kind of comic travelogue of a local yearly fiesta in the town of Santa Barbara, California, dealing with the history of the town's connections with Mexico. The MGM studio trotted out many of their stars and most of them do little cameo jokes (Baxter wearing a huge sombrero that Ralph Forbes finds him under, Cooper opening up a beer stein and using it - actually a lighter - to light his pipe, and Harpo guzzling down Mexican wine). Ted Healy pops up in a comic segment where he is pestered by a gate crasher who keeps asking him about movies he did not appear in (interestingly he says A NIGHT AT THE OPERA had the four Marx Brothers in it - he apparently does not realize Zeppo stopped appearing with his siblings after DUCK SOUP). Devine pretends he is Mexico's greatest bull fighter, and then (to his dismay) finds that Keaton is raising bulls and wants him to fight one. Keaton, by the way, gives a pretty good mock-Mexican accent when he talks.
One small piece of fluff (Carillo popping up to shoot up the proceedings in a good natured "Pancho" way is typical) it is easy to watch and forget, except the brief appearance of Judy and her two sisters with Mr. Porcasi.