A Night at the Opera (film)
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| Directed by | Sam Wood |
| Produced by | Irving Thalberg |
| Screenplay by |
George S. Kaufman Morrie Ryskind Uncredited: Al Boasberg Buster Keaton George Oppenheimer |
| Story by | James Kevin McGuinness |
| Starring |
Groucho Marx Chico Marx Harpo Marx Kitty Carlisle Allan Jones Margaret Dumont |
| Music by | Herbert Stothart |
| Edited by | William LeVanway |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,057,000 |
| Box office | $1,815,000 |
A Night at the Opera is a 1935 American comedy film starring the Marx Brothers, and featuring Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, and Walter Woolf King. It was the first film the Marx Brothers made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after their departure from Paramount Pictures, and the first after Zeppo left the act. The film was adapted by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, and Al Boasberg (uncredited) from a story by James Kevin McGuinness. It was directed by Sam Wood.
A smash hit at the box office, A Night at the Opera was selected in 1993 for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It is also included in the 2007 update of AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies, at number 85; and previously in AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs 2000 showing, at number 12.
Otis B. Driftwood (Groucho), business manager for wealthy dowager Mrs. Claypool (Margaret Dumont), has stood her up and is having dinner with another woman in the very same restaurant. When she discovers him seated directly behind her, Driftwood joins Mrs. Claypool, and introduces her to Herman Gottlieb (Sig Ruman), director of the New York Opera Company, also dining at the restaurant. Driftwood has arranged for Mrs. Claypool to invest $200,000 in the opera company, allowing Gottlieb to engage Rodolfo Lassparri (Walter Woolf King), the "greatest tenor since Caruso". Lassparri is then seen cruelly abusing Harpo, his dresser, for wearing 3 of his costumes ,fires him and throws him out.
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