Animal Crackers

Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont), a wealthy Long Island matron, throws a lavish party at her mansion, at which the noted African explorer Captain Spaulding (Groucho Marx) is the guest of honor. Mrs. Whitehead, a society rival of Mrs. Rittenhouse's, decides to sabotage the party by substituting a copy of a noted painting that will be unveiled that evening. Meanwhile, Mrs. Rittenhouse's daughter Arabella (Lillian Roth) plans to switch the painting with a copy done by her artist boyfriend John (Hal Thompson), in order to impress art impresario Roscoe W. Chandler (Louis Sorin), whom musicans R...