Marx as Signor Emanuel Ravelli Zeppo Marx as Horatio Jamison Lillian Roth as Arabella Rittenhouse Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Rittenhouse Louis Sorin as Roscoe W. Chandler Hal Thompson as John Parker Margaret Irving as Mrs. Whitehead Kathryn Reece as Grace Carpenter Robert Greig as Hives, the butler Edward Metcalf as Inspector Hennessey The Music Masters as Six Footmen Jokes Four of Groucho's best-known quips: "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know." (The American Film Institute listed this at number 53 in the 100 Greatest Movie Quotes of All Time.) "Then, we tried to remove the tusks, ... but they were embedded in so firmly, we couldn't budge them. Of course, in Alabama the Tusk-a-loosa. But that's entirely ir-elephant to what I was talking about." "Africa is God's country – and He can have it." "We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. But we're going back again in a couple of weeks!" Other quotes from Groucho: "Ever since I met you, I've swept you off my feet." "You mind if I don't smoke?" "There's one thing I've always wanted to do before I quit: Retire." "I was outside the cabin smoking some meat. There wasn't a cigar store in the neighborhood!" "Didn't you ever see a Habeas Corpus?" Chico: "No, but I see Habeas Irish Rose." The film also contains the well-known Chico–Harpo scene in which Chico keeps asking Harpo for "a flash" (meaning a flashlight), and Harpo – not understanding – produces from his bottomless trenchcoat and baggy pants a fish, a flask, a flute, a "flit", a "flush", etc. Zeppo figures in a well-known scene in which Groucho dictates a letter to his lawyers in rambling pseudo-legalese. Zeppo gets to one-up Groucho: When asked to read the letter back, Zeppo informs him, "You said a lot of things I didn't think were very important, so I just omitted them!" whereupon a minor skirmish ensues: what he's omitted is the body of the letter. (Joe Adamson, in Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Sometimes Zeppo, observed that this scene disproved the common notion that Zeppo was the least of the Marx Brothers: "It takes a Marx Brother to pull something like that on a Marx Brother and get away with it.") One more complex running joke has Groucho turning the dialogue into a scene out of