All Americans, 1929

Joseph Santley co-directed with Robert Florey the first Marx Brothers feature film, The Cocoanuts, a musical comedy for which he is most famous. Based on the George S. Kaufman play, and with music by Irving Berlin, the film was billed as “Paramount’s All Talking-Singing Musical Comedy Hit.”

Santley also directed the musical short film, All Americans which featured song and dance numbers relating to nativism that arose in the 1920s.