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Budget. $1,057,000 [3] Box office. $1,815,000 [3] A Night at the Opera is a 1935 American comedy film starring the Marx Brothers ( Groucho, Harpo and Chico ), and featuring Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, and Walter Woolf King. It was the first of five films the Marx Brothers made under contract for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ...
- $1,057,000
- Irving Thalberg
A Night at the Opera: Directed by Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding. With Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle. A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
- Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding
- 175
- 2 min
Synopsis. In Milan, wealthy dowager Mrs. Claypool ( Margaret Dumont) has hired sly, wisecracking business manager Otis B. Driftwood ( Groucho Marx) to help her enter society, but he merely helps himself to her money. At dinner in a fancy restaurant, he introduces her to opera impresario Herman Gottlieb ( Sig Ruman ).
Why A NIGHT AT THE OPERA is Essential Marx Brothers fans are generally divided over the quality of the early '30s Paramount period (Animal Crackers, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, etc.) vs. the MGM period (A Day at the Races, Go West, etc.), which was kicked off by A Night at the Opera, their most successful movie. Paramount purists will hail the ...
- Sam Wood, Lesley Selander
- Groucho Marx
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The Marx Brothers run amuck in the world of opera when Otis B. Driftwood (Groucho Marx) meets aspiring singer Ricardo (Allan Jones), who is determined to win the love of fellow performer Rosa ...
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A Night at the Opera was built around highlights of the Marx Brothers’ comedy routine. One of the film’s most memorable scenes is the stateroom sequence, in which a virtual army of passengers squeeze into one of the cruise ship’s smaller cabins. The movie ends at the opera, with the Marx Brothers causing utter chaos on opening night. As ...
