Lawrence Tibbett
Thomas Renwick
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Metropolitan is a 1935 back-stage drama film interlaced with songs and musical segments from opera . Directed by Ryszard Bolesławski (credited as Richard Boleslawski), it featured the famous baritone Lawrence Tibbett (in his penultimate movie role), with Virginia Bruce as his leading lady. Tibbett was America's leading baritone and a major ...
Metropolitan: Directed by Richard Boleslawski. With Lawrence Tibbett, Virginia Bruce, Alice Brady, Cesar Romero. An opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man, then leaves this company too, which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
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- Drama, Musical, Romance
- Richard Boleslawski
- 1935-11-08
Synopsis. As she attempts unsuccessfully to repair her stalled car sixteen miles outside of New York City, Anne Merrill switches the car radio from a cowboy song to opera and begins to sing along. Thomas Renwick, carrying fishing gear nearby, joins her in song and offers to help with the car. After he reveals that he sings with the Metropolitan ...
- Richard Boleslawski, Freddie Fox
- Lawrence Tibbett
Metropolitan (1935) Metropolitan (1935) Metropolitan (1935) Metropolitan (1935) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis In this musical, opera singer Ghita Galin (Alice Brady) leaves the ...
- Richard Boleslawski
- Musical
- Lawrence Tibbett
Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck in the first film of 20th Century Fox studio, "Metropolitan" showcases Tibbett in an absolutely ridiculous plot that features actors Alice Brady, Cesar Romero, Virginia Bruce, Walter Brennan and others. Brady, who later won an Oscar as Mrs. O'Leary in "In Old Chicago" is the stereotypical temperamental diva who ...
- Richard Boleslawski
- 20th Century Pictures
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Metropolitan was the first release from the newly merged 20th Century-Fox corporation. Famed operatic baritone Lawrence Tibbett stars as Thomas Renwick, the new leading man for temperamental diva Ghita Galin (Alice Brady). After storming out of the Metropolitan Opera, Ghita organizes her own troupe, full of young, untried singers.
