The House That Shadows Built the Marx Brothers, with Davison Clark playing Mr. Lee, Theatrical Producer, which was intended to promote their forthcoming 1931 film "Monkey Business" (Clark later played the role of the frustrated Passport Official in "Monkey Business" and would also appear in the war scene in "Duck Soup"). The segment, containing material which was never included in any other Marx Brothers film, is a re-working of the first scene of their first successful Broadway revue "I'll Say She Is" (1924), which Groucho considered to have been the funniest work in the Brothers' career. Except for a few name changes and additional gags,
Monkey Business (1931 film) in the Paramount promotional film "The House That Shadows Built" (1931). The concept of the Marx Brothers being stowaways on a ship would be repeated in an episode of their radio series "Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel" (1933) in the episode "The False Roderick" and would also be recycled in their MGM film "A Night at the Opera" (1935). The essence of Groucho's joke, "Sure, I'm a doctor—where's the horse?" would serve as an integral plot element for their film "A Day at the Races" (1937). Also repeated in that later film would be the uproarious medical examination that Harpo and