Groucho appears in the film without his usual greasepaint moustache and eyebrows; by this point in his career, he had grown out an actual mustache and no longer saw the greasepaint as dignified. He rarely shares the screen with his brothers (the three never appear together in the same scene), and mainly provides an encompassing narration to explain things in the film when the necessary sequences for a coherent narrative were unavailable. Groucho avoided mentioning the film at all in his autobiography, "Groucho and Me" (1959), apparently at that time considering "A Night in Casablanca" (1946) their last film together. He did acknowledge the film in interviews for "The Marx Brothers Scrapbook" (1974) and in his later book, "The Groucho Phile: An Illustrated Life" (1976). Because of the encapsulated nature of Groucho's scenes, it had long been assumed that his presence in the film was an afterthought. However, recently discovered letters from Groucho show that he was asked to be part of the project from its earliest stages in 1946–47.