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Lobby Card A Night at the Opera
is a 1935 American comedy film starring the Marx Brothers, featuring Groucho, Chico, and Harpo Marx. The image is a lobby card from the movie, showing the three brothers in a scene from the film.
About the Film
Release Date: November 15, 1935.
Plot Summary: The film follows a sly business manager, Otis B. Driftwood (Groucho), and the wacky friends of two opera singers, Fiorello (Chico) and Tomasso (Harpo). The trio helps the singers, Rosa and Ricardo, achieve success in America while humiliating their snobbish rivals. The plot includes the famous "stateroom scene," where numerous people crowd into a tiny cabin on a ship.
Significance: This was the first Marx Brothers film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) after leaving Paramount Pictures, and the first without their brother Zeppo. The film was a major box office success and is considered one of their all-time classics. It was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1993.
Cast
Groucho Marx as Otis B. Driftwood
Chico Marx as Fiorello
Harpo Marx as Tomasso
Kitty Carlisle as Rosa Castaldi
Allan Jones as Ricardo Baroni
Margaret Dumont as Mrs. Claypool
Walter Woolf King as Rodolfo Lassparri |
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