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A Day at the Races is a 1937 American comedy film, and the seventh film starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo and Chico), with Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan and Margaret Dumont. Like their previous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature A Night at the Opera , this film was a major hit.
A Day at the Races: Directed by Sam Wood. With Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones. A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.
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- Comedy, Family, Musical
- Sam Wood
- 1937-06-11
For reasons not quite clear or relevant, sanitarium employee Tony (Chico Marx) has arranged for phony-doctor and new-boss Hackenbush (Groucho Marx) to examine his jockey buddy Stuffy (Harpo Marx), the first routine with all three together, in MGM’s A Day At The Races, 1937.
- Sam Wood, Robert A. Golden
- Groucho [Marx]
Groucho Marx. Although Groucho Marx was the third-oldest son of "stage mama" Minnie Marx, he was the first to take the plunge into show business. With his mother's blessing, the 14-year-old Marx took a job as a boy soprano with a group called the LeRoy Trio.
- 1409 min
In Florida, Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush (Groucho Marx) is treating one of his clients, a horse, when the telegram arrives with the job offer. Aware that they can put a veterinarian in jail for treating people, he observes that he can also be put in jail for not paying his rent and has nothing to lose.
The Marx Brothers in A Day At The Races (1937) Watch on. Groucho (Dr. Hackenbush) and Sig Ruman (Dr. Steinberg) It took a dozen writers over a year and a half and eighteen different scripts before Irving Thalberg would give A Day at the Races the go-ahead.
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A Day at the Races (1937) - Directed by Sam Wood, produced by Max Siegel, Irving Thalberg, Lawrence Weingarten, Sam Wood and starring The Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan, Margaret Dumont, Leonard Ceeley,and more...
