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Animal Crackers, Lobby Card

Four caricatured brothers beside a card game.

What

A 1930 Paramount-Publix lobby card for Animal Crackers, an American pre-Code comedy directed by Victor Heerman.

Why

It filmed the Marx Brothers' 1928 stage musical by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, with songs by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and Margaret Dumont in the cast.

Notice

Four drawn heads tumble down the left side under a top hat, and the foot reads "THE MARX BROTHERS" beside a round Paramount seal.

“Broadway musical, filmed in 1930”

Format

The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.

Size

$29.00

Provenance

Film
Animal Crackers (1930), dir. Victor Heerman
Country / studio
United States · Paramount-Publix
Format
Lobby card
Poster published
U.S. lobby card, in colour, 1930
Source
Wikimedia Commons
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Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.

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