Search results
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 ...
- Lee Pfeiffer
Feb 16, 2023 · The “opera” element comes from the film’s usage of Guiseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. Entitled “A Night At The Opera,” the film marked the beginning of a new age of Marxian humor. The film also established the Marx M.O. when it came to comedic timing and the refinement of slapstick and class-based ...
Night at the Opera, A (1935) -- (Movie Clip) State Dinner Driftwood (Groucho Marx) is working one scheme with Mrs. Claypool (Margaret Dumont) and Gottlieb (Sig Rumann) and another with Rosa (Kitty Carlisle) during a state dinner on the ship in A Night at the Opera, 1935.
- Sam Wood, Lesley Selander
- Groucho Marx
People also ask
Was a night at the opera a Marx Brothers movie?
When was 'Margaret' filmed?
What is a night at the opera about?
Who starred in a night at the opera?
Sep 3, 2012 · I had been anticipating the film since 2009, when I learned that it would include a scene at the Metropolitan Opera with my two favorite opera singers Renée Fleming and Susan Graham singing "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" from Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann. Apparently, there was drama with the filming and the subsequent release of the film.
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 ).
Jul 8, 2012 · Kenneth Lonergan's "Margaret" was written in 2003, filmed in 2005 and stuck in post-production for six more years. The 150-minute version briefly released theatrically last year was an inchoate masterpiece, perhaps, but a masterpiece nevertheless. The DVD/Blu-ray release, July 10, will feature two versions of the film -- the theatrical release and a new "extended cut" by Lonergan that, he says ...